The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
by Farah Ahmedi, Tamim Ansary | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 1416906703 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1416906703 Global Overview for this book
10 journalers for this copy...
This is the story of a young Afghani girl's life and how she came to live and adjust to suburban Chicago.
Reserved for PokPok's virtual non-fiction bookbox.
Reserved for PokPok's virtual non-fiction bookbox.
Journal Entry 2 by Amusedbythis at post office in Chicago, Illinois -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, August 14, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (8/14/2005 UTC) at post office in Chicago, Illinois -- Controlled Releases
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Sent to a fellow bcer.
Sent to a fellow bcer.
Received in the mail. Looking forward to reading this book. Thanks for sharing this book with me.
Hard to believe that an 18 year old has enough life experience to write her life story. This one is now available.
Released 18 yrs ago (1/7/2006 UTC) at
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Mailed to labmomnm today.
Mailed to labmomnm today.
Arrived in the mail - thanks!
4 August 2006 - I started to read this yesterday and finished this morning...it is a difficult book to read in some ways, but very beautiful and moving.
Going out as a bookray:
azuki (FL) US shipping only
book-man-8 (Germany) international OK
menalima (Portugal) international OK
aussie-rose (Australia) local only
Crystaljade (Australia) local unless we get desperate
gabbysmum (Australia) international OK
xoddam (Australia) international OK (yippee!); may be slow to pass along <-----
sinang (Philippines) last stop on the ray (local postage only)
4 August 2006 - I started to read this yesterday and finished this morning...it is a difficult book to read in some ways, but very beautiful and moving.
Going out as a bookray:
azuki (FL) US shipping only
book-man-8 (Germany) international OK
menalima (Portugal) international OK
aussie-rose (Australia) local only
Crystaljade (Australia) local unless we get desperate
gabbysmum (Australia) international OK
xoddam (Australia) international OK (yippee!); may be slow to pass along <-----
sinang (Philippines) last stop on the ray (local postage only)
The book arrived with a beautiful bookmark and postcard. Thanks labmomnm. I read the inside flap and back cover and decide I love this book already. So glad I got a chance to read this. (So glad I joined bookcrossing!) Will journal when I finish.
Almost done reading it, will pm book-man-8 for address.
Farah is a strong and clever girl who told her story in a simple, clear voice. While reading the book, I looked around my room and thought, we sure do have a lot. In a small way, this book makes me understand more how immigrants to a new country feel like, (I wasn't born in the U.S. but certainly moved here under much better conditions) and how I should help more people in other countries and people who just arrived. Thanks labmomnm for sharing. This book should go out next week to Germany.
Farah is a strong and clever girl who told her story in a simple, clear voice. While reading the book, I looked around my room and thought, we sure do have a lot. In a small way, this book makes me understand more how immigrants to a new country feel like, (I wasn't born in the U.S. but certainly moved here under much better conditions) and how I should help more people in other countries and people who just arrived. Thanks labmomnm for sharing. This book should go out next week to Germany.
Got the book today in the mail. Thanks for sharing and sending! I like the tiny booksign!
Journal Entry 10 by book-man-8 from Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Wednesday, October 25, 2006
This is a very moving story. It was wonderful to read about the western doctors who gave that heavily wounded 7 year old girl the possibility to remove her soaked but still sticky bandages herself, thus avoiding every unnecessary pain! It's also interesting to read about life in Afghanistan and Pakistan: these are really "different worlds"! Highly recommended to understand a little bit more why we all are still so different, but all the same: human beings.
Waiting for "Menalima's"address.
Waiting for "Menalima's"address.
Released 17 yrs ago (10/26/2006 UTC) at
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On it's way to "Menalima" in Portugal.
On it's way to "Menalima" in Portugal.
Received book today, have one little one to read first but shouldn't take long:)
Thanks book-man8 for the postcard:)
Mena
Thanks book-man8 for the postcard:)
Mena
Finished this excellent book last night and every free time I had (which with 2 small kids is not much:))I was reading it! And I can so relate to this girl as when I came from Africa to live in Portugal I also felt sooo out of place, eventhough I was lucky to speak the language well:)
I recommend this excellent book to all.
Have asked aussie-rose for here address.
I recommend this excellent book to all.
Have asked aussie-rose for here address.
Book on the way to aussie-rose :) left Portugal on the 14 Nov. happy readings:)
Yeah :-) Book arrived safely! I have another book in front of this book but will get to it hopefully in a week or so. I love to picture of the leopard! Is it something that travels with the book?
Journal Entry 16 by aussie-rose from Keith, South Australia Australia on Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Finished and enjoyed it! Farah certainly is a girl with lots of determination and her story is a good reminder to never under-estimate people and their ability to think and learn! Farah gives some wonderful insights into her upbringing but also into the way refugees & the disabled are treated.
Thanks for sharing this book with me. It's off to CrystalJade today! :-)
I'm including some 'Keith' bookmarks (Keith is the town I live in!) for everyone else on the ray. Enjoy! :-)
Thanks for sharing this book with me. It's off to CrystalJade today! :-)
I'm including some 'Keith' bookmarks (Keith is the town I live in!) for everyone else on the ray. Enjoy! :-)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Farah is one gutsy young lady.
I'll be returning to Hervey Bay this week, so I'll post the book next week, that way I can add some Hervey Bay bookmarks to the Keith ones.
I'll be returning to Hervey Bay this week, so I'll post the book next week, that way I can add some Hervey Bay bookmarks to the Keith ones.
Received yesterday and already halfway through lol
What an incrediably strong young woman Farah has become,if she can overcome such pain and heartache as well as a disability and still see the beauty in people and the world.
Journal Entry 20 by gabbysmum at Bookring in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Friday, May 11, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (5/10/2007 UTC) at Bookring in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Sorry for the delay,a broken hand will slow you down lol.Anyway on its way
Sorry for the delay,a broken hand will slow you down lol.Anyway on its way
Arrived safely about a week ago, sorry I didn't journal sooner. It has been shuffled back to the top of the Things To Do pile a couple of times!
I will not be reading this soon (still a bit of a bookring queue and I just started in a new job) but I'm very keen to read the book. Priorities...
Many thanks Amusedbythis and labmomnm for sending the book out into the world, and everyone else too for passing it on.
I will not be reading this soon (still a bit of a bookring queue and I just started in a new job) but I'm very keen to read the book. Priorities...
Many thanks Amusedbythis and labmomnm for sending the book out into the world, and everyone else too for passing it on.
I enjoyed this very much. It's an epic tale of endurance; of a girl who is learning, as she embarks on a Western adulthood, to be a child again after having lost the opportunity to be one at the age when most of us didn't know how lucky we were.
I found it somewhat disturbing that a desparately urgent ambition and source of pride for Farah was learning to drive and obtaining a car. I guess that's just what life is like in the outer suburbs of the big Western cities like Chicago (and of course Sydney, where I live, though I've managed to avoid car ownership so far)
I hope Farah doesn't find herself on the outer again as the petroleum supply declines in coming years. There are plenty of alternatives to a new Great Depression (and this is where I plug Winning the Oil Endgame) but people seem so contented in our time of plenty that an ongoing shortage without relief will come as a big shock.
I've PM'd sinang and will send the book as soon as I know where it's going.
I found it somewhat disturbing that a desparately urgent ambition and source of pride for Farah was learning to drive and obtaining a car. I guess that's just what life is like in the outer suburbs of the big Western cities like Chicago (and of course Sydney, where I live, though I've managed to avoid car ownership so far)
I hope Farah doesn't find herself on the outer again as the petroleum supply declines in coming years. There are plenty of alternatives to a new Great Depression (and this is where I plug Winning the Oil Endgame) but people seem so contented in our time of plenty that an ongoing shortage without relief will come as a big shock.
I've PM'd sinang and will send the book as soon as I know where it's going.
