This lovely book brought back too many memories, stuff I hadn't thought about in DECADES. Hey wow, I can actually remember back for DECADES now, I didn't realize that. The story is about an orphan in Prince Edward Island around 1900 who gets adopted into country life. She also has a HUGE imagination and romantic outlook, to a fault (such as ( Read more... )

Sahle Sellassie (full name Berhane Mariam Sahle Sellassie) wrote Shinega's Village in his Chaha language (a Gurage dialect, from Ethiopia) for his professor at UCLA. It was a good story, so the professor suggested translating it into English and publishing it. This book was the result ( Read more... )

I have finished this book but the Internet has died on me, forcing me to think for myself (horror) as I type this review (seeing how I cannot look at other people's reviews of it, and I really need to type this now while the memory is fresh ( Read more... )