Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Two recommendations


If you want to read an amazing book, something that will open your eyes to parts of history/geography you weren't aware of; make you grateful for your life and liberties, read this book: Stolen Lives. In 1972 a teenage girl named Malika (the author), her mother and her 5 younger siblings, were sent into exile for TWENTY YEARS because of their father's failed attempt to overtake the king (this all takes place in Morroco). It's an outrage of course, but no one can stop the political machine, and Malika and her family are basically forgotten about. So this is the story of their stolen youth, the unbelievable conditions they lived in, their resourcefulness in learning to survive, the planning and failing of their escape attempts, and mostly, how every single one of them survived because of their strong bond to each other and to the prospect of hope.

And two!!! "You wanna taste something come DIrectly from heaven?" Mama introduced me to these Peppercorn Ranch Sunchips. GLORIOUS!!!!!!!!!!! Think, What About Bob, when he's eating the chicken. :) hahaha

Happy Tuesday!

1 comments:

Mix Family said...

oooh, i'm going to get that book! it sounds amazing. and those sunchips sound even better! mmmm. i'll have to pick some of those up too!