Book worthy

 Everybody's writing a book or memoir these days. We've seen our share of pop-culture and/or gossip books.

But what if we had more books that brought awareness and activism, like "Mountains beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder, "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson or "A Thousand Sisters" by Lisa Shannon? The fact that these titles went on to be bestsellers proves that books on social responsibility DON'T equate to utter boredom and disappointing sales.

I look forward to someone writing a book about their accounts on the ground while helping to end the desperate situation in Somalia. The region known as the Horn of Africa has been experiencing desertification for decades. The Somali people have nowhere to go and, what's more, little food to sustain them during relocations. So they're stuck and STARVING. Recently, almost every broadcast news network has reported that the past 90 days have been particularly dire for Africa's Horn. Some 29,000 children have died as a result of the famine. Can you wrap your head around that number? Sadly, that figure is 29,000 not 2,900.

Incredible.

This, friends, is truly book...or awareness...worthy. I would certainly be reading.

To access a good Huffington Post article, click here. To donate to help those living in the Horn of Africa, click visit the Samaritan Purse's ministry website for that region.