Books, books, and more books
21 Dec 2008 Leave a Comment
Last week, I helped Mark count and sort English books donated by Books for Africa. Some of the books were quite interesting. It turned out that Books for Africa is located in Minnesota, so there were several books about Minnesota and American Indians. I was tempted to just read the books – particularly the Nancy Drew ones, instead of counting them. LOL.
We had to censor some of the books – particularly those talking about Christianity, since Mauritania is an Islamic nation. I felt rather weird doing it, but what can you do? They might think we’re trying to convert them. There were several books published by Pensacola Christian Ministry that were rather ridiculous.
So moral of the story is that people should be selective in terms of book donations. Seriously, don’t donate Christian books unless you’re donating it to a church or a Christian school.
