September 29, 2007

  • This was my book club's third selection and there was about a equal amount of I hated it, the best book we have read thus far, and then ambivalence.  I definitely fall into the more ambivalent category.  I don't have much to say about this one ... hence a review of the book about 3 weeks after our last meeting.

    I always like to build upon my knowledge base (well, who doesn't) and I liked the fact that this book taught me about the civil war in Nigeria because it is more than likely that I never would have known much about this war otherwise.  However, the author obviously have a specific audience in mind when writing.  And this audience is one which is already familiar with the war and its issues as she makes little to no explanation about the politics.  So I definitely used Google as a resource in order to get some kind of background or else a few things would not have been clear to me while reading.

    Yes...so not much else to say ... sorry!

    Two out of five