Books read
I was thoroughly engaged by this book. Not only are the lives of the ordinary people interesting, but the historical information is as well. I highly recommend that anyone interested in learning more about North Korea read this book. Fas...
This book is written by two sisters born 16 years apart. As such, each sister's experience in Afghanistan is quite different from the others, each with unique hardships. In the "real-life hardship/horrible event" genre, this boo...
An interesting, albeit brutal, look at honor crimes against women told by a survivor of such a crime. There are not too many gruesome details, so it's not overly difficult to read from that aspect of things.
A quick and easy read despite the subject matter. It was refreshing to read a book that didn't focus as much on the horrific act - in fact, relatively little was said about the actual gang rape - as it did on the culture that allows this s...
I couldn't finish this book. The author is too full of himself and there's no continuity to the book. It jumps all over the place. Poorly written.
I got stuck around 30% of the way through, but managed to get through the book. I have only read one other book about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, so this was not entirely new information, but still astounding nonetheless. Hard to bel...
Hands down, this subject matter has been the most difficult and gut wrenching to read. However, it is eye opening. I will be making a donation to her charity soon. Wow.
This one took me a while to finish because I wasn't very into it, though it was good enough for me to finish it. There were several twists that I was truly surprised by, so that was nice.
Difficult subject matter, of course, but well written. I kept picturing where I was in my life while this woman was in slavery (New Year's Eve 1999, e.g.) It's hard to fathom that slavery is still so commonplace, or really that it still ex...
