Our next story is about a women who survived the Rwandan Holocaust.  It is call Left to Tell.  Hope you can join us in reading the book pick for the month of July.

It's amazing how this young women really got it at such a young age.  I think back on my teen years.  I was involved in a lot of things that had nothing to do with God's plan.  I have read the first three chapters so far and this young lady is truly gifted with God's wisdom.  What an example of the love of Jesus and a good reminder of what we should all be doing as Christians.  I can't wait to finish reading this book.

Next pick for our book club is Kisses from Katie.  A story about following God's will with Faith, Hope, and Love.

Just finished Little Bee by Chris Cleave.  It's such a sad story.  It's hard to imagine having to flee your home for safety and then when you go somewhere safer they tell you that you have to go back.  This book was well written but it does pull at the heart.  It is a fiction novel but the realities of a refugee in the UK are real.  If you read this book be ready to cry and pray.  The sad part is the conflict in this country was over oil.  We live in a greedy world.

Little Bee.  I must say that it has been a difficult book for me to read.  There is such a tragic story.  There is a sense of reality of the horrible things that happen around terror.  I don't know if you have ever been terrified, but that is how Little Bee lives...in terror.  Terror in my opinion is a lot different that being scared.  It is an interesting twist when Little Bee's life meets up with Sarah's.  Sarah's life is also in turmoil and much of it because of her own doing, but also because of who her now deceased husband use to be.  She has made many poor choices with an affair, then going to a country that had warnings not to vacation there.  It reminded me of my own trip to India.  Many people were concerned for our safety   But it certainly did not have a war going on there.  Sarah and her husband meet a very disturbing group of terrorists and Sarah makes a sacrifice that her husband could not do.  (But you will have to read to find that out.)  Sarah seems very reckless at times, but also is shows courage with the sacrifice she made.  These two women do have their moments of brief happiness when they decide that they would like to look at the joys in life.  I'm still reading to see what happens to these women.

Little Bee is unlike any novel I have read before.  I'm still at the beginning of the book.  It's a story about a refugee women from Africa and women who's life is changed by Little Bee some how.  I will have to keep on reading to see how this all works out.  It has made me think about a refugee's life and the fear they must face when they are forced to leave their homes to escape unexplained terror.  Little Bee ends up in England in a detention center for immigrants.  She is very resourceful and learns the best she can to speak the language of England so she can communicate when she is out.  So far I have not been able to understand how Little Bee and Sarah's lives collide.  But her husband Andrew commits suicide after he gets a phone call from Bee.  It's a sad book so far, but makes you think about all the obstacles a refugee would have to over come having to be in a different country.