I just finished the book "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and fell in love with it. I was nervous to read it because I read "The Kite Runner" (by the same author) and really liked that book, but it was a tough read FOR ME, I think just because it opened my eyes to how that part of the world lives and at a point (I think you all know what I am talking about if you have read it) I was a bit disturbed and did not read it again for a month but finished it and am very glad I did.
Anyway, back to ATSS, this was an easy read and I love those books that make you walk away more grateful and more educated. I have to admit I was so tired of turning on the news at night to hear that another of our soldiers were killed in combat in either Afghanistan or Iraq, it was so heartbreaking and would just thinking of how young they were, had families, etc. and knowing they truly just volunteered to serve our country. I openly said we should just drop a bomb on that side of the world because there is no hope for any of them to be civil - oh that sounds awful now that I wrote it out, so sorry! This book changed it all...
It starts out meeting one of the characters at a young age and talks about their culture then as it goes on it goes through the war with the Soviets, to a civil war, the arrival and rule of the Taliban, to that dreadful day Septemer 11th and finally the beginning of the war with us. Those poor people have had to endure so much in their lives, basically everything they knew was turned upside down in a day. It opened my eyes to war one we do not know or understand it is right in their own neighborhoods, they watched their own children starve, were scared to walk down the street because they did not have a man by their side. I totally recommend this book if you have not read it already. I am so grateful to live in this great country and can only hope and pray that while war is an awful thing that it will bring them peace and the wonderful freedoms we enjoy.
So now I am in need of a good book, any suggestions?
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Funny enough.. I just finisehd this book today! I loved it as well. I was nervous, too, because I loved, loved Kite Runner, and I didn't like this one as much, but the writing was beautiful and the story was too.
It felt uplifting despite the ahrshness of the situations. I am moving on to "memory Keeper's Daughter" next. I have had glowing reviews.
of course not.. I added you as well!
Hey Brit,I have been wanting to read the kite runner, so was it really good? Are you going to see the movie? Love your blog, your family is so cute!
I loved the book as well. I'm so glad I live in boring Utah! :)
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