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Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof
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Kola Boof
Kola Boof's long awaited autobiography "Diary of a Lost Girl" is nothing less than magnificent. Many will be spellbound by more than 90 pages detailing her terrifying experience as Osama Bin Laden's former mistress, but the Sudanese-born Novelist/Poet writes even more profoundly about the hardships of being vaginally circumcised, about witnessing her birth parents killed i
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Hardcover
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441 pages
Published
February 1st 2006
by Door of Kush
(first published 2003)
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I personally don't care whether or not she's crazy or even telling the truth. This book helped me to rediscover the feminist in myself and should be a must read for all women.
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Kola Boof's writing is captivating, as is the story of her life. The ideas in her book dealing with race, color, and sexism are fascinating, challenging and ring true. Her style opens her up to us and shows a genuine person, one you might not always like, but certainly genuine, certainly showing us humanity coming from a life full of hardship and beauty.
I really enjoyed the book, and found Boof charming and real. She seems to have some beef with fatness and "ugliness," which made me wary, as wel ...more
I really enjoyed the book, and found Boof charming and real. She seems to have some beef with fatness and "ugliness," which made me wary, as wel ...more
Without the time to do a thoughtful review of Kola Boof's work, I can say that it is a courageous sharing of the author's truth and viewpoint of the world. Stronger than 95% of the memoirs I've read. Unfortunately the ending discredited the entire believability of the whole book and who the hell Boof really is. I look forward to reading more of Kola Boof's fiction?
So far, I can't put the book down, & know I will be reading & watching everything I can from her (most of which i will probably have to find on the internet). It is not an easy read, but she has struggled to have her voice heard, & I am so glad she has that opportunity now. Warning: it is not "PG", & there are some tacky, shocking, & revolting sentences spoken, often in an expression of suppressed (or not so suppressed) anger, imo. My eyes are opened to so much of the injusti
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A Bit Much But Interesting
This book described very interesting life stories about Kola. Almost unreal. It was a good book but it was a bit overwhelming and repetitive.
This book described very interesting life stories about Kola. Almost unreal. It was a good book but it was a bit overwhelming and repetitive.
Diary of a Lost Girl by Kola Boof is an essential read if you want to understand what motives Kola Boof's statements about women, race and life in general. She is a very interesting individual and her autobiography holds nothing back about her story as an African woman making her way in the world.
Interesting book by a controversial author/woman. I think the book could have been reduced to half the number of pages as she is very redundant. Gives the reader a lot to question/speculate. I don't doubt that she was the "mistress" of Osama---who would want to make up such a story?
I thought it was a bit repetitive, and racist. However, it gives you food for thought, and allows you to see things from her perspective. Hers is a story most of us don't have to live through, for that, I'm very grateful.
This was a difficult book to read as Kola shares her difficult story. Her courage is amazing and sets her apart from others. I definitely recommend this book to everyone and I would be happy to let you borrow it!!
I don't know how to begin to respond to the Autobiography of Kola Boof, but I've done my best at
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Interesting and intriguing to say the least, often times redundant. I may be interested in reading something else by Kola Boof but I need to let my brain marinate on this particular read.
Mar 19, 2008
Marsh
marked it as to-read
This is written by Osama's former girlfriend. He is obsessed with Whitney Houston and she looks a lot like Whitney so he made her be his girlfriend.
This is one of the best books I have ever read!
Very interesting book. Have been following her career for a while now, and was highly intrigued and enjoyed what I read. Definitely a must-read for anyone!
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