Hello all, and hope you enjoyed your long weekend!
Hawaii lay behind me like a childhood dream; I could no longer imagine settling there. Whatever my father might say, I knew it was too late to ever truly claim Africa as my home.
- Dreams from My Father by Barack ObamaAbout the book:
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. — From publisher.
About the author:
He is currently the President of the United States of America.
Find a copy:
- The book is available at UTS Library.
- In libraries across Australia.
About Teaser Tuesdays:
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading! Everyone is welcome to play!
How it works:
1. Grab a book from your collection
2. Select 2 sentences that make an interesting teaser (avoid spoilers please!)
3. Post the sentences, along with author and book title in the comments of this post
This month's reading theme is DREAM which comes courtesy of the National Year of Reading 2012 program!
2 comments:
I'm exclusively reading children's books now to my 3 year old niece! Today was Koala Lou by Mem Fox (thanks to Ashley for the suggestion):
"One night Koala Lou had a splendid idea. Preparations had begun for the Bush Olympics. SHE would enter the Olympics! She would compete in the gum-tree-climbing event, and she would win, and her mother would fling her arms around her neck and say again, 'Koala Lou, I DO love you!'
I've been rereading my PG Wodehouse and in particular his Jeeves stories. This is from the novel Right-Ho Jeeves! when Bertie's friend Gussie turns up plastered to give a speech at a school prize giving:
I couldn't quite follow some of it, but anybody could see that it was real ripe stuff, and I was amazed that even the course of treatment he had been taking could have rendered so normally tongue-tied a dumb brick as Gussie capable of it. It just shows, what any member of Parliament will tell you, that if you want real oratory, the preliminary noggin is essential. Unless pie-eyed, you cannot hope to grip.
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