I finished this book several days ago, but have been sick with this pregnancy and unable to blog about it until now! I was told about this book by a friend and fellow book-lover. Wow, is this book fantastic!
It is set during the time period of WWII and is another autobiography. If you remember from my last book blog entry, I had finished the book "Unbroken" - a biography of a POW imprisoned in Japan during WWII. This book also features a POW during WWII, but she was held in a Japanese camp located in New Guinea. Darlene Deibler Rose was a missionary with her husband to New Guinea. Soon after they arrived, though, WWII broke out and the Japanese quickly took over the island. I won't give major details away but she is captured and interred in a Japanese POW camp away from her husband. Written in her own words, this incredibly journey of faith challenged me so often in my own walk. To have faced such devastating circumstances and witnessed such atrocious things and yet still have a heart of love for people (and her captors, no less!) and the work of God was quite a rebuke to my own passive, easy life. One thing that continually impressed me was her vast bank of Scripture memory. She was able, although stripped of her Bible, to continually encourage herself and others with verses she had memorized as a child, teen, and young adult. She took on a role of leadership in her barracks, held daily devotionals for her fellow inmates, and witnessed multiple times to her Japanese head of camp. It is virtually impossible to walk away from this book without continually seeing the goodness of God and the miracles He accomplishes in and through His faithful children!
Education note: If your teen (probably more geared for a 9th-12th grader unless your junior higher reads at an accelerated level) is needing to find an autobiography or historical book to read or do a book report on, this would be the perfect book!
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