And yet again

Well I started my FOURTH Francine Rivers book this week! And i saw that Bakeface Space is reading the same one. Her Mother's Hope is amazing and its definitely one of my favorite of her books. Its about a girl whose father despises her and beats her and blames her for all of the family's problems. Like her brother flunking school. Apparently since she gets good marks, and her brother doesn't, its all her fault and she should be punished. Her father then makes her drop school and sells her to local people to do odd jobs like 16 hours a day. And she never sees a cent of the money nor is she allowed to inquire about it. Her younger sister is strikingly beautiful and her father treasures her. He would never hit her gorgeous face. Luckily the whipping boy of a daughter Marta, has some spunk and decides to stop taking her father's crap and leaves. She shows each of her employers how wonderful of a work ethic and skill she has and makes each of them love her. Her father also tries to send her away to this boarding school/manner-learning house which ends up being a total scam. Too bad Marta controls the place and tells the Leader Lady what she thinks. When the lady approaches her because of her amazing sewing skills, she charges the Lady a great sum and defends her hefty price. She is not about to let this lady cheat her out of hard, well earned money like her father always let be cheated out of her mother. I just love reading about women who have spunk. Its so much more interesting than women who are submissive to everything and take men's crap. Why don't they do like they did in Rome and just poison their husbands who got out of control?