ReBecca Beguin

While this book, an imaginative trip through Africa written in close third person, kept my interest, the grammatical errors throughout were annoying and often distracting. Once again, I regret not having data on my phone, which would have allowed me to track page numbers as I noted various items of interest, like the difference in gait that made a nice 'beat' during a long trek. Gliding versus bouncing makes sense to me because I researched bare-foot marathon preparation, so noted that when one runs barefooted, the gait and stride change, which the author noted rather more poetically on page 104. She also does a very nice job of ratcheting up the narrative tension by using the language barrier as an effective, rather than cumbersome plot device.
I loved how she described the habit of women all over the world, working through pain, working while coping. And most hard hitting of all was her point of the exploitative value, rather than helping hand, of the missionaries and traders who went before the colonizing administrators. Finally, the English working class view, which resonated far too closely with me for my own personal comfort, of life as "a burden I struggled to get out from under."
A good read well worth enduring the occasional editing error.

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ShiraDest
March, 12019 HE

… (meer)

While this book, an imaginative trip through Africa written in close third person, kept my interest, the grammatical errors throughout were annoying and often distracting. Once again, I regret not having data on my phone, which would have allowed me to track page numbers as I noted various items of interest, like the difference in gait that made a nice 'beat' during a long trek. Gliding versus bouncing makes sense to me because I researched bare-foot marathon preparation, so noted that when one runs barefooted, the gait and stride change, which the author noted rather more poetically on page 104. She also does a very nice job of ratcheting up the narrative tension by using the language barrier as an effective, rather than cumbersome plot device.
I loved how she described the habit of women all over the world, working through pain, working while coping. And most hard hitting of all was her point of the exploitative value, rather than helping hand, of the missionaries and traders who went before the colonizing administrators. Finally, the English working class view, which resonated far too closely with me for my own personal comfort, of life as "a burden I struggled to get out from under."
A good read well worth enduring the occasional editing error.

Let's #EndPoverty & #EndMoneyBail by improving these four parts of our good #PublicDomainInfrastructure 4: (1. #libraries, 2. #ProBono legal aid and Education, 3. #UniversalHealthCare , and 4. good #publictransport )Read, Write, Ranked Choice Voting for ALL!!!!, Walk !

#PublicDomainInfrastructure
ShiraDest
March, 12019 HE

… (meer)