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Releasing for 2005 Valentine's Day Challenge.

RELEASE NOTES:

Happy Valentine's Day 2005!
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Sending to sistert

I've heard amazing things about this book. Can't wait to read it and see if the hype is true! =)

Outstanding, exciting, heartbreaking, funny. So much emotion in a well told story. Hook from the get-go. I'm glad I had the chance to read this one. It was a pleasure.

It's now available on Bookrelay.com:
http://bookrelay.com/relay.php?id=1018

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Sent to gnissorckoob as part of the "Out of Africa - no geo. restrictions" relay.

It's here in Miami. I appreciate this. It is one of my daughter's summer reading assignments for high school.

When my daughter first picked up the book, she didn't like it. But she persued it because it was assigned and soon was really getting into it. This was her summer reading and she is still talking about how much she liked the book, in fact.

Then we gave it to my mother, the huge reader of the family. She too raved about it. Her post-it note says: Historical novel that takes the reader to the jungles of Africa. A white family in a black environment. A really good book that you not only enjoy but learn from." (This is the fourth KIngslover novel she has read and given high marks.)

Since I just don't have time to read a 500+ page book any time soon, I will be passing it along to someone else.

I put this on BookRelay.com and lauraloo requested it in behalf of HoserLauren, so it will be off to Canada as soon as I can get an address. Mailed 10/01/05

I received this one in the mail today.
Thanks so much for sending it along!

This one was on my wishlist because I'm trying to read through all of Oprah's Book club books, and I haven't read this one yet!

Thanks again! :)

The Price family of six travels to the Congo to bring the Baptist faith to the people of the Congo. The couple has four daughters, including twins Leah and Adah. Adah was born with part of her brain not working, suffers a limp, and doesn't talk much but she is incredibly smart. Eldest daughter Rachel is a teenager who only cares about herself and youngest daughter Ruth May is a firecracker.

The Congolese don't take too well to the new faith being shown to them but they don't want the family to suffer either so help out in small unseen ways. Unsurprisingly, things in the Congo don't work like they do in the USA. The family fails at many things and then starts to fail at their relationships as well.

This was a very slow book to read through. There were some uncomfortable subject and some characters that were pretty easy to hate. It's amazing how out of touch the father was.

The ending seemed to just keep going and going. It almost would have been better if the last few chapters weren't included and we weren't given the final update on their adult life. It really just made me feel even more disconnected from the family.

To the finder of this book: I hope you enjoy reading this book. Please keep it or set it free when you're done. If the book is of no interest to you, please release it into the wild for someone else to find and enjoy. I hope you will make a journal entry so its journey can be tracked and to let me know the book has been found. You can remain anonymous if you wish, but if you join BookCrossing, you are in for a great experience.

Found at the Little Free Library on Newell, in Burlington, Ontario currently reading.

Enjoyed reading this book. I left in a book exchange inspired by the Little Free Library movement on Cumberland, near New Street across from the fire department in Burlington, Ontario.