I have been reading this book FOREVER! I had to turn it back into the library and then put it back on hold and wait for it again. Luckily, it is a book of short stories (memoirs), so it wasn’t a tragedy when I had to turn it in…you can just pick up where you left off. I made it to the last two stories, however, and decided that I could not invest any more time in this book. Some of the stories are very interesting. They are all about children whose parents were missionairies, dignitaries and the like. Children who did not have a home country and often lived in five different countries, speaking as many different languages and trying to absorb and assimiliate into that many cultures before their tenth birthday. Children who were sent to boarding schools or American schools in the country they were currently residing in. Many of the stories are very interesting, but towards the end I had had enough. Time to move on to another book. I need some fiction.
Archive for May 4th 2007
Liam specifically asked for me to put this picture on the blog. What is he doing? He is using some cardboard from some packaging to scratch the cat. The cat loved it. There were several other pieces of cardboard that he used that afternoon to make into various spaceships from Star Wars. 