Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass

by Isak Dinesen | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0394742117 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingbookczukwing of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA on 3/2/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by wingbookczukwing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, March 2, 2005
To be released this afternoon as part of the Oh The places you go challenge.

Journal Entry 2 by lalalaura from Charleston, South Carolina USA on Wednesday, March 16, 2005
It was a dark and stormy morning...no really, it was. Raining miserably. I was feeling alone and missing my family and in a hurry to get to work. I was walking out the door of my favorite Starbucks juggling my keys, purse, and grande hazelnut Americano when I saw it. Out of Africa. I know the story well. My mother has gone through 2 of the movies and 3 soundtracks in my lifetime. She has simply wore them out. I can hum the sound track from start to finish. Mom loved the scenery and music. It transported her to a world away from reality, the way a well told story will. It was such a vast difference from the life she lead. And a welcome change in the clostrophobia of small town living in the mountains of Tennessee. She used to try to use it as the example for all life stories she tries to teach me as a teenager. She'd tell me to be strong, independant, adventurous and never 'need' anyone else.
On this bustling rainy morning it is strange how just the sight of the cover is startling to me. I instinctively reach for it and the theme song begins in my head. I add the book to my juggling routine and off I go to work....

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