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| Passionate Fan   Joined: Sep 2007
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| She is basically a 11-year old girl who is living during the Bosnian war. Here is a snippet from Wikipedia about it. "Zlata's Diary is a book by Zlata Filipović, a young girl living in Sarajevo while it was under siege in 1992. Zlata wrote her diary (whom she called Mimmy) from 1991 to 1993 during the Bosnian war. She is starting the fifth grade in the beggining of 1991 and she reunites her friends.The war begins just before her eleventh birthday. It chronicles her daily life as war has an increasing impact on her city. She has been described as the Anne Frank of Sarajevo and, like The Diary of Anne Frank, it contains many descriptions of the horrors of war as a view from the innocence of a child. The parallels are further aided by the fact that the war Zlata lives through is motivated by ethnic and religious differences. Zlata describes the day that the war started as "The day that time stood still". Zlata rarely had food, water, gas, or electricity, and lived in poverty and fear during this time. Some of her friends got killed by pieces of shrapnel and others that she loved dearly have gone to different places of the world to escape this horror. This hurt her very, very much." They speak about it alot in the Freedom Writers diary and movie. __________________ I want you to know right now that I I'm gonna love you until the day I die {Chris} | |||
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| Elite Fan   | Oh cool. Sounds like something I should read  __________________ all i know is i'm lost without you i'm not gonna lie how am i going to be strong without you i need you by my side | |||
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| Master Fan  | Quote:
Yeah, I was really surprised when I read the similarity of the passages. And it's not just Megan McCafferty's work either, there's similarities with novels other authors have written as well! Since we're talking about books, here are two I'd recommend: In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez. I had to read this for a class I took in uni, it's based on a real story revolving around the lives of four sisters during a time of dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. It's a bit sad, but very interesting. And on a lighter note: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. I remember mentioning this here before, but it's worth mentioning again, cause it's that good. Sophie Kinsella's writing is just really funny, I always find her books a nice break from reading the heavy material usually found in my course readings.  __________________ "I often say that I'm an optimist. I don't see the point of being anything else." - Delta Goodrem | |||
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| Passionate Fan Joined: Sep 2007
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| Elite Fan  | I've heard of Confessions of a Shopaholic but never read it. I don't read that much really, Harry Potter's the last thing I read addictively! __________________ this is not a dream that I'm living, this is just a world of your own you took me from all that I knew, showed me how it feels to hope Naomi // icon:unkown | |||
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| Total Fan  Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 7,098
|  Hey guys! Super busy as of late, hope you are all keeping well though __________________ the escapistDAAHF strawberry swing violet hill VLV chinese sleep chantyes reign of loveLiJ 42 lost! cemetries of london LiT kingdom come twisted logic swallowed in the sea the hardest part low a message speed of sound X&Y talk fix you white shadows what if square one AROBTTH a whisper warning sign green eyes daylight clocks the scientist GPASUYF in my place politik life is for living everythings not lost we never change high speed PARACHUTES trouble yellow sparks spies trouble don't panic | |||
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| Elite Fan | Hey Chris, thanks. Busy with uni stuff?__________________ this is not a dream that I'm living, this is just a world of your own you took me from all that I knew, showed me how it feels to hope Naomi // icon:unkown | |||
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| Elite Fan | Kay - I've read the Confessions of a Shopaholic series...it's funny, I enjoyed it. I may have to check out In the Time of the Butterflies __________________ all i know is i'm lost without you i'm not gonna lie how am i going to be strong without you i need you by my side | |||
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| Elite Fan  | I really should read more.  __________________ no more time for | |||
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| Elite Fan | Yes, you should. __________________ all i know is i'm lost without you i'm not gonna lie how am i going to be strong without you i need you by my side | |||
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| Passionate Fan Joined: Sep 2007
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  __________________ I want you to know right now that I I'm gonna love you until the day I die {Chris} | |||
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| Master Fan | Done exams!!  __________________ "I often say that I'm an optimist. I don't see the point of being anything else." - Delta Goodrem | |||
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| Elite Fan | Wooo you're all finished?  __________________ this is not a dream that I'm living, this is just a world of your own you took me from all that I knew, showed me how it feels to hope Naomi // icon:unkown | |||
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