Higher Ground
Thursday, March 16, 2006
ok i am posting this to test if i got this whole "uploading a pic into my blog concept" and well if you see the pic then it worked obviously and secondly because i am reading it and couldn't think of anything better to say right now.
what the book is about:
" Of the nearly 300,000 deaths caused by the 2004 tsunami, more than a third were children. Working with personal accounts of survivors and rescue workers, writers retell some of the harrowing accounts. Other authors imagine events that could have occurred, based on known facts. The 16 selections portray the horrific event as experienced by children of various ages in a variety of settings. Although some are more successful than others, all the pieces put a child's face on a disaster of enormous proportions. Black-and-white reproductions of children's art introduce each narrative; a middle section of full-color pictures depicts the nightmare through their eyes. "
I am half way through it and i find it heartbreaking so far. it's written in a way that makes u feel like you're going into the child's mind when the waves hit them and its just terrible to think of the hundreds of thousands of people who died in this disaster.. and well the book is for a good cause so at least i feel that i contributed something to it.
3 comment(s):
I saw this book for sale at the book fair, I think I was going to get it and then got distracted so forgot about it. It sounds very moving
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Samyah, at
10:49 PM
How much of the proceeds goes towards survivors of the tsunami, I wonder?
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illogicist, at
4:22 AM
I still didn't get to read my copy of the book. I've been reading the Guiness book of records instead which I bought from the airport and it's just so much fun ( You know how much I love records and statistics)..but I'll start reading it soon inshallah.
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5:52 AM
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