Changes

I really enjoyed reading this book and it took me straight back to my days in Salone. It was easy to get swept away by the stories, and from a purely literary perspective the only thing that broke up the flow was the changing from past tense to present tense and back again now and then, which occasionally made me want to stop and re-read a sentence a few times. However, due to the diary nature of the book this was not a deal breaker, and I still enjoyed the general style. Being self-published, it's not as tightly edited as some books I have read, but the grittiness fits with the stories. This is not a book that glosses over the realities of life in Ghana, but nor is it a super-negative tale of her experiences there. The warmth of the children, and of the community as a whole, really shine through, and I think most of the people featured could read it and be proud of the way they are portrayed. While it didn't make me want to rush back to that part of the world, it did remind me what it's like to go off adventuring, definitely stirring up a little something inside me.

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