Worms

Book review:

Interesting book. An autobiography, and I should say it's the second autobiography I have read in probably over two years. My latest kick has been historical fiction/ cultural fiction (not sure that's a category, but I just made it up).

This one was chosen by my book club and I'm glad I was introduced to it (unlike "The Shack", as I will NOT write a review on, due to my disappointment!). Pretty much written about the childhood of a vagabond, whose parents were extremely intelligent but lacking in the "average" department. I was told it was a bit disturbing, but after about three years of reading about the traumatic lives of Iranian women being raped, Afghan children being drugged, and Cambodian daughters being sold into sex slavery just to pay their family's debt, I would classify this as "light hearted". :-)

Yes, there were moments where as a mother, I couldn't possibly imagine allowing your children to reach such a level of destitution (especially when they were VERY capable of working, the mother even had her degree), however in a twisted way, it was somewhat inspiring... not that three out of four of the children turned out successful, but how resourceful her and her parents were in making ends meet, staying healthy, and remaining extremely educated (halfway home-schooled-whoot whoot!) and focused on art, imagination, and adventure.

Overall, it was a good read, and I would recommend it to anyone!

Now I am on to read "The Redeeming Love", which has been on a "reading train" that ironically started with my mom and has had several stops up in Sonora... Mom, I'll be bringing it down to Yorba Linda this week!