The Content Reader

Kate at  Books Are My Favourite and Best , hosting this interesting meme. This month we start with Barbara Kingsolver's  The Poisonwood Bible.  I read it many years ago and really loved it. A man's passion to work as a missionary in Africa and how it effects his family and the people around him. A marvellous story. The story takes place in Congo and that takes me to Joseph Conrad's  Heart of Darkness.  A dark tale on the exploration of Africa. A short book, but a gruesome story of how the colonialists treated the local people. Staying on with explorers, I come to think about Tim Jeal's biography of  Stanley - The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer.  A totally intriguing biography of a very famous person, of whom we think we know a lot. That is not the case, at least not for me. His somewhat bad reputation is just a tiny part of what this man achieved in this lifetime. Not to talk about all the hardship he went through on his ex...