I watched about half of it but fell asleep. Now it’s due back to the library. I’ll watch it again at another date.

Eh, it was alright. It seem lacking. The best word I can think of is underdeveloped. Maybe the screenwriter should have done a few more drafts because the script lacks depth. The potential for depth is there. The relationship the boy has with his parents and teacher is obviously complicated and dysfunction. One day I’ll read the book. Surely that contains all the elements that couldn’t be squeezed into these two hours.

I taught myself to knit through a Klutz book almost a year ago. Last week I went to a knitting class and the teacher pointed out some things I was doing wrong. So now I’m watching this DVD from the libray to see what other mistakes I may have been making.

The author tells the story (process) of how she learned to forgive her former friends and neighbors who hunted her and murdered her family during the holocust in Rwanda in 1994.(No one was spared not even her eight month old cousin.)

I’m more than a little curious how she learned to let go of that hatred. That’s the focus of the book. The process of working through those feeling while she hid in a small secret bathroom with 6 other women for 91 days. From what I hear when she came out she was 5’9’ weighed 65lbs and held no resentment toward the people who wanted to kill her simply because of her ethnicity. In many ways the story reminds me of The Diary of Ann Frank, except this book is more intense. She doesn’t seem to hold much back when she describes the emotions and spiritual transformation she through in that bathroom. This is not a touchy, feely, love will set you free book. She is brutally honest about each stage of grief, fear and rage that she went through. They were killing babies, children anyone who belong to the Tutsi tribe.

She now lives on Long Island, NY, works for the UN and gives talks around the country. A few survivors from the WWII holocust have come up to her after her talks and told her she’s helped them. A 90 year old woman said she helped her let go of the hatred she’d been holding on to and that now she felt free to be happy.

I don’t know how she could learn to forgive something like that but I’m looking foward to reading how.

This book was given to me years ago by a friend and a friend gave it to her.

It’s about the camps Japanese Americans were forced to live in during WWII. The author(a native born American) tells what life was like for her in one of these camps.

This is a story about a woman with two children who’s husband leaves her for a younger woman. A couple of weeks after the woman’s husband leaves her, her father-in-law takes her and his grandaughters to the family beach house to cheer her up or something. The rest of the story is about all the things they discuss.

The book is mosly dialogue. Their talks are pretty boring and seem to go nowhere until about 1/4 of the way through the story when he starts to tell her about a woman he loved. That’s when things get interesting.

I read this a couple of years ago. Whenever it was Oprahs pick of the month. I didn’t stick with all the rituals but it was worth it to take a look and see what really matter. I say it was worth it.

I put it aside. I’m trying not to read more than 2 books at a time. Preferably one fiction and one none fiction.

Because it’s boring. This book is about as interesting as hot, dry toast on an August afternoon. The Amazon reviews were awful. Usually I check reader reviews before buying any book but this was an impulse buy. The reviewers did suggest some other books on this subject. Maybe in time I’ll try those. For now, I’ll try to skim through the rest. No sense in wasting money. Hopeful some interesting nuggets of wisdom will jump out at me.

The collection of stories is pretty diverse. The stories range from a woman getting picked up by a guy on the street, to a couple of kids sneaking out their dads car, to a story of an aging rock star.

The thing I like about this book is none of the stories were over the top. The best part of reading stories is picturing yourself in the story, at least for me. With most of these stories that wasn’t hard because each one was about regular everyday people, going through their day. No white knights riding up on white horses. No, just an unshaven guy sees a woman walking down the street and asks her out. That I appreciated. I’m a realist.

Her style is definately different. I’ve never heard a woman swear so much. My only other complaint is that the dialogue can be hard to follow at times. The conversation run on for awhile with no tags. After a bit, I’d lose track of whose talking. I’ll give this book three stars because I don’t think it’s for everyone, with the language and other content.