Desert Flower- Waris Dirie

A story about a Somalian nomad girl becomes an International Model. This book tells you how she had lived a nomad live in deserts, responsibilities to taking care of goats and water. According to her, life in Somalia for a girl wasn't easy. A girl born to married to a man which she don't like just because it's for her father exchange for a camel! Worst still, Somali girls have to undergoes Female Genital Mutiliation(FGM) in an inappropriate procedure. She ranaway, grab the opportunity to live in London, strive for the best, going to the States and become a model.

'Remarkable courage...the most beautiful inspriration to anyone'-Elton John

Currently, Waris is an UN Ambassador against FGM.

A Must-Read book...interesting, funny and extraordinary.

Hard Girls by Martina Cole

Hard Girls

by Martina Cole




This book consists of 600 pages!!! 600 uninteresting pages about prostitute been killed! One prostitute get killed is painful enough, in fact, 10 prostitutes has been killed is really painful enough to be read. With the additional of a very long and boring investigation, the story doesn't have any climax. I find it dull, long and makes you feel old.


I've survived until page 513 but still, the story doesn't have any clue, findings, climax or ready to "roll the curtain down" feeling.

It's very tired, dissapointing and boring!!! I've never read anything so boring in my entire life. Nancy Drew is way better than this!!!

Eating Myself by Candida Crewe

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Eating Myself by Candida Crewe is really eating me up because this book is bored to death!

Most of us, within us has issues about food and Candida is among them. Telling her story about her connection with her food issues and her life story is a really really long story. I've stopped until the page of 80 and I'm giving it up!

One thing for sure, everyone of us is quite shy of eating a large amount of food especially in the buffet or gathering with friends because we fear that they judge us by saying us "We really have a huge appetite"

According to Candida, there's a gender bias from the society. A girl who eats a lot judge as a "huge appetite" and she is fat where it leads to food issues and unhealthy diet wheareas a guy doing the same thing is not the same as judging for the girls. A guy that consumes a lot judging as a normal.

There are a few scientifc words like "sugar", "metabolism" and "calories" and the science behind the result of body starvation and the "body eating itself" as a result from the prolonged period of starvation/malnutrition!

Whatever it is reader, I had enough! I'm going to find another book to read. I have raise a white flag..lol

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Biography: Somaly Mam- The Road of Lost Innocence

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Somaly Mam: The Road Of The Lost Innocence is the real life true story of a woman named Somaly. Born and raise in Cambodia, this book describe the journey of her life that she went through and an undescribable tragedy of her life in the brothels and forced slave from the age of five to her 20s.



Birth in the forest and with the majority of the Cambodian population in poverty previously had forced the people to sell or giving their children to other people to work as a prostitute in an early age or slave in order to find income to their "family". Export of these childrens to Thailand is not common. Some of the Cambodia government agencies and police personnel "encouraged" and "support" of these"hidden" activities that finally, motivated Somaly to get out from her life tragedy and seeked help from foreigners in Cambodia who works with the private volunteering bodies.



During the post-brothel life, she has educated Cambodian girls with sex education also by giving away free condoms and creating job opportunities in her volunteering shelter. With the co- operation with trusted police force to combat prostittution activites, she received threats from person who opened the brothel business almost everyday.



Presently, Somaly Mam has her own foundation for the purpose of rescuing young girls in Cambodia from slavery, prostitution and abused. Her hard work has been recognised and honoured by United Nations.



This is simple a marvellous book that tells about her sacrifice, commitment,motivation and courage to help other young Cambodian girls from poverty and prostitution. This book had simply had creates awareness among the reader and society for protecting the young generation by getting hurt emotionally and physically.





This book is 5 upon 5.





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For more info and donation for Somaly Mam Foundation, please visit: http://www.somaly.org/