Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
This book was a must read as soon as I saw the cover. I’m crazy for memoirs, especially stories of women living overseas in a Muslim culture. Kabul Beauty School is the story of how Deborah Rodriguez, a hair dresser from Michigan, started a beauty school for Afghan women in the war-torn city. When you [...]
June 30, 2008
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: Afghanistan, memoir, women · Posted in: Reading, Women's issues
Elizabeth Gilbert, Rhonda Byne, Oprah and Christians (no, this is not a really bad joke)
A reader left this comment on my post regarding Eat, Pray, Love: One Womans Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. Let me put the comment in context so you don’t have to follow a link to my original post and wade through all the old comments. The commenter is talking [...]
June 9, 2008
· Monica Brand · 22 Comments
Tags: books, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Indonesia, memoir, nonChristians, Reading · Posted in: Believing, Reading
Eat, Pray, Love: a travel memoir
Update (6/9/08) For my latest comments on Gilbert’s book, follow this link. I don’t read memoirs, I absorb them. I begin to read and I don’t quit until I’ve come up out of the last word of the last chapter. I get easily involved with the author’s experiences; I hate to put the book aside [...]
August 15, 2006
· Monica Brand · 15 Comments
Tags: books, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Indonesia, me, memoir, non-fiction, Reading · Posted in: Reading
