A House in the Sky

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan In war ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia the most dangerous place on earth On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives wife lessons from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity and on strategy, fortitude, and hope When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being tortured.Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity. Download A House in the Sky – kino-fada.fr I am sure I am going to get negative responses to this review but here goes This a mediocre book at best Yes the writing is polished but my guess is the reason for this is the co author, who writes for the New York Times Magazine The first 140 odd pages details what a grossly naive person Amanda Lindhout is and her narcissistic belief that she can do anything She seems to be the one of the highest grossing waitresses on the planet without taking off her clothes, and seems to think that survi I am sure I am going to get negative responses to this review but here goes This a mediocre book at best Yes the writing is polished but my guess is the reason for this is the co author, who writes for the New York Times Magazine The first 140 odd pages details what a grossly naive person Amanda Lindhout is and her narcissistic belief that she can do anything She seems to be the one of the highest grossing waitresses on the planet without taking off her clothes, and seems to think that surviving Central and South America was justification for traveling to Pakistan, Afghanistan , and unfortunately for her ultimately Somalia All this did for me was easily predict how her reckless behavior would end up getting her in trouble I have seen reviews stating she got what she deserved This assessment is grossly ignorant Nobody deserves to be raped and tortured The problem I had with the book is the first half is boring and as I said easy ...It s impossible to read this book without it weighing heavily in your thoughts..Amanda Lindhout, held hostage for 460 days, in Somalia, made many stupid choices she was na ve and foolishly optimist.yet, those same qualities about her may have been what kept her alive Amanda is a fan of Eckhart Tolle She mentioned reading The Power of Now which reminded her of being truly present in her own life that it can be liberating from the past and the future and transform one s thinki It s impossible to read this book without it weighing heavily in your thoughts..Amanda Lindhout, held hostage for 460 days, in Somalia, made many stupid choices she was na ve and foolishly optimist.yet, those same qualities about her may have been what kept her alive Amanda is a fan of Eckhart Tolle She mentioned reading The Power of Now which reminded her of being truly present in her own life that it can be liberating from the past and the future and transform one s thinking What Amanda went through was HELL No matter what dumb mistakes she made nobody should go through what she did Yet Ms Amanda Lindhout her friend Nigel called her Trout.bless her heart soul if she didn t put to practice the skills of Eckart Tolle when she needed them most to survive with a sound mind Eckhart Tolle says Intense presence is needed when certain situations trigger a reaction with a strong emotional charge That s jus...This was another brutal book experience of 2017 I m exhausted I m late to the party so there isn t much to add that hasn t been said This is being made into a movie starring Rooney Mara so there is that I think she s a good pic to play Amanda Lindhout Thank you to Mark for recommending this book and for getting me an audio copy This was another brutal book experience of 2017 I m exhausted I m late to the party s...Impossible to put down, and easily one of the bravest, most harrowing, and most inspiring memoirs you ll ever read What Amanda went through during her 15 months of captivity in Somalia is about as close to hell on earth as anyone could get, and her story is at once many things a remembrance of transcended origins and of lust for travel a page turning, ripped from the headlines chronicle of a young woman s kidnapping a portrait of the tragedy of religious fundamentalism and failed statehood a Impossible to put down, and easily one of the bravest, most harrowing, and most inspiring memoirs you ll ever read What Amanda went through during her 15 months of captivity in Somalia is about as close to hell on earth as anyone could get, and her story is at once many things a remembrance of transcended origins and of lust for travel a page turning, ripped from the headlines chronicle of a young woman s kidnapping a po...It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still You don t know what s possible until you actually see it Amanda Lindhout, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped while traveling alongside Nigel Brennan, a freelance photojournalist, in Somalia The two were held captive for 460 days Where they were starved, tortured, beaten, and Amanda even raped repeatedly A House in the Sky is Amanda Lindhouts recount of the events that took place over her year in captivity A Hous It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still You don t know what s possible until you actually see it Amanda Lindhout, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped while traveling along...Man, I don t know what to say about this one I d received it as an ARC from the publisher Read it in just a few days Saying I m conflicted is an understatement Yes it s the true story of a Canadian woman who, while working as a photojournalist or at least she thinks she is , gets captured and held for ransom along with a male friend in Somalia for over a year She s half starved, beaten and raped before she and her friend are released It s a story of courage, inventiveness, and faith But Man, I don t know what to say about this one I d received it as an ARC from the publisher Read it in just a few days Saying I m conflicted is an understatement Yes it s the true story of a Canadian woman who, while working as a photojournalist or at least she thinks she is , gets captured and held for ransom along with a male friend...A true story about a young Canadian woman bitten by wonderlust who ends up in war torn Somalia because she fancies herself a photo journalist Not surprisingly she is kidnapped and held hostage forthan a year, starved, tortured and raped by her Muslim captors hoping for ransom money I was engrossed in the book once I started because I wanted to know what happened to her and read it through to the end just to finish it and see how it ended But, honestly, I spenttime wondering what o A true story about a youn...Every so often you ll read a book that stays unshakably close to you It ll linger in your mind and fill your thoughts throughout the day when you ve set it aside and lovingly so very, very long after the last page Memoir A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout is one of those books Receiving the absolute highest possible praise of five and four stars from the Mindful Readers, this book is incredible Amanda s rich, flowing, and relentless, beautiful writing takes you intensely side by side with Every so often you ll read a book that stays unshakably close to you It ll linger in your mind and fill your thoughts throughout the day when you ve set it aside a...Deep breath.I have been thinking about Amanda s story a great deal since I finished this book I have also read a great many glowing reviews that point out among other things how well the book was written, how courageous in the face of extreme adversity Amanda was, how honest she is about her own culpability in being in that position in the first place, how remorseful she is about the ordeal her parents suffered in their efforts to free her and how humbled and self less she has become on the ot Deep breath.I have been thinking about Amanda s story a great deal since I finished this book I have also read a great many glowing reviews that point out among other things how well the book was written, how courageous in the face of extreme adversity Amanda was, how honest she is about her own culpability in being in that position in the first place, how remorseful she is about the ordeal her parents suffered in their efforts to free her and how humbled and self less she has become on the other side of this nightmare as evidenced by her fortitude in helping others.All of which I believe to be true, still there is a disquiet within me, that popular or not I feel I must share While searching within myself for the source of this uneasiness I made a mental list She funded her travel lust by waitressing in high end clubs Come on, where please do tell, can a waitress make that kind of money and still keep her clothes on Not judging just ...In August, five years ago, Canadian Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped with Australian Nigel Brennan in Somalia, as they traveled, writing and taking photos of their experiences.In August, five years ago, I had just had Alex and was spending most of my nights awake, in a bleary, exhausted post partum haze and began following Amanda s story Late at night, I would search the internet for updates, hoping for good news, reading blogs that claimed to have answers as to where she was and wonder how on ear In August, five years ago, Canadian Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped with Australian Nigel Brennan in Somalia, as they traveled...

• English
• 03 June 2018
Amanda Lindhout
• Hardcover
• 373 pages
• 1451651694
• Amanda Lindhout
• A House in the Sky