Books I RED

Dr. Denis Mukwege won the Nobel Peace Price in 2018 for his work globally in restoring women and children who've suffered from sexual violence and rape, he is the founder of the Panzi hospital in Congo. This book Kvinnors Styrka   or as the title is in English The Power of Women is a read that I recommend for every man and woman, it's a global issue. In the book he retells the story of his life and career in helping women but he retells the story of his life in the most selfless way, with the activist agenda to live a Christlike life helping women and children.  There is so much to say about this book, it's brilliant and wise like the writer Dr. Denis Mukwege, I have great respect for him and admire him not only for his work now, but for the many points he brings forth in this book, I find it best to list them here: 1. The crisis in Kongo since colonialism has solely been one of a global tug o war and mainly western countries looting for minerals and other natural resourc...

When I was a girl, merely fifteen I used to lie in the cabin below deck in my fathers boat and read Harlequin novels and feel the mysterious tingle as I read. I still remember the descriptions of the red dress and Mattheo, the dark handsome Italian. I remember how the cheap harlequin novels made me feel. It was clear to me that I would marry a man from some exotic place, a dark handsome stranger because I myself was strange, the unpopular wallflower, a dahlia sprung up from frozen Nordic land.  The idea of post-modern love was that love like our meals where fast and soon one should be hungry again and preferably live in perpetual hunger with one man, the right man. In early 2000's the discourse on multiculturalism in marriages was beginning to take form in conversations among women in Finland. Katja Keisala, was among the scientist interested in this theme questioning what is so special in multicultural marriages, what distinguishes them? To her disappointment the quest produced li...