Sweetness in the Belly
From Ms. Emma Wain:I suggested Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb for our next book club selection because my sister told me that it is ‘the best book’ that she’s ever read! Many others have echoed these feelings, including Fiona, so I was very eager to read the book myself and understand why it had stolen so many hearts. Furthermore, the fact that this book includes many rich themes and ideas- multiple nations, cultures, religion, suffering, joy, love and history….who wouldn’t love it??!!!
I am now just past half-way through Sweetness in the Belly, and am really enjoying the novel. I find Lilly’s character very lovable and captivating- how she started out with such a unique and eclectic upbringing, and how relatively easily she seemed to take things as they came in her life. I find it amazing that while she is in Ethiopia, that she seems so open and accepting of her circumstances, and of the people around her and how she is treated poorly by many of them for being a ‘farenji’. She seems to embrace experiences and people as they are, and to be a vibrant, positive and hopeful soul.
So, when we jump to the years when she is living in England years later, and appears to have lost her vibrancy, and more importantly her sense of hope for the future, and perhaps even for humanity… this keeps me turning the pages in order to understand what has led to this stark and critical change in her outlook. Stay tuned!!!
posted by MJ @ 9:17 a.m.
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