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Since my last post on this thread, I've read
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini, "Whisper to the Blood" by Dana Stabenow, and "A Risk Worth Taking" by Robin Pilcher. I'm currently reading "Portrait In Sepia" by Isabel Allende".
#135 Ibradf, I like your "Books off the shelf Chal ...
... Edward Rutherford. I own & have read & enjoyed his novel "Sarum".
From my library I recommend a boo I've recently read: "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini...his second novel.
Judylou - Congratulations on reaching 75! I had a similar reaction to A Thousand Splendid Suns . It was a hard book for me to read, but very powerfully written. And I've just started the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Glad to hear that you are enjoying it!
Darn! I accidentally hit the submit button twice; I haven't done that for a long while. I just got so distracted because So You Think You Can Dance just started. See ya! :-)
... have bet that you would have liked it better than I did. (Case in point, #73.) Good thing I put money down, huh? :-)
One Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my tbr's that I've committed to read next year. I'm going to get my tbr collection down to ten books or less, maybe even five or less.
148. One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
72. One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This was certainly a very powerful story. It is hard to believe that women have been and are being treated this way in the same world in which I can enjoy equality in all aspects of my life.
73. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
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72. One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This was certainly a very powerful story. It is hard to believe that women have been and are being treated this way in the same world in which I can enjoy equality in all aspects of my life.
73. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
...
... Like Alice by Nevil Shute
* Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
* The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
* A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
* The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresen
Slammerkin by Em ...
If you search for A Thousand Splendid Suns (or follow this touchstone) you'll find some recommendations for similar books.
I've left Poe's !800's Baltimore (The Poe Shadow) for Afganistan (1987,1989,1992-2003) in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... the list as my next book and that leaves only one more to go!
I am thinking either Behind the scenes at the museum or A thousand splendid suns .
Started "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Kahled Hosseini ("The Kite Runner") yesterday.
... You Must Read Before You Die in the shops (but not the touchstones) now too. I'm drooling.
crimson-tide: Oh, I liked A Thousand Splendid Suns too. It wasn't as depressing as one thought it would be. Although hardly happy stuff.
ETA: it's actually 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Bef ...
Finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns yesterday. He is a wonderful storyteller, no question, weaving the story (covering the last 30 years or so) around the country's recent history. Two great female protagonists this time round and a look in to just how hard life is for women in Afghanistan ...
... And I'm definitely not convinced it's great literature. Wasn't terrible, it just didn't do anything for me.
I thought A Thousand Splendid Suns was really good, though.
>49 A Thousand Splendid Suns - I couldn't put that one down!
Just finished reading The Slap, it would be a great one for a bookgroup read. I was very surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did. Well written. Could have been a bit of a soap opera but it didn't come away like it for me.
...
Oh, A Thousand Splendid Suns (Just confused LT with a typo: I spelt 'suns' as 'sons'. Goodness, what a duffer I am!) has been on my TBR for SUCH a long time. But I MUST read my bookrings. (BTW, Revolutionary Road was really fascinating, and strange. I've not journalled my thoughts yet, but I ...
... with Shantaram, wookiebender?
This morning I finished the most excellent Man in the Dark. Next up will probably be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
OK then - more books have been read!
119. Its the Little Things by Erica James
120. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
121. By The Time You Read This by Lola Jaye
122. Influential Women by Wendy Virgo
123. Old Boyfriends by Debbie Macomber
124. J ...
Après le bouleversant Les Cerfs-Volants de Kaboul, et le monde des hommes, avec Mille soleils splendides on est en Afghanistan, la fin des soviétiques, les talibans, le 11 septembre, les américains, l'espoir ... l'histoire de deux femmes sur une vingtaine d'années, leur désespoir, leur ...
... I hadn't seen the film, must have given away the story a bit.
Another 2 books, but I'm too tired to write much!
105 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I really enjoyed this, though I can't say it made me too happy. It's kind of heart-warming in a depressing way, if that makes ...
... to hit the bargain rows!
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (a Shakespeare mystery, looks interesting)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (I have The Kite Runner already so I'm excited about this one!)
Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun (my Postcolonial Lit class ...
Yesterday I bought a paperback of Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini .
Yesterday I bought a paperback of Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
... Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
3) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
4) The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson
5) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
6) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7) The White Queen - Philippa Gregory
8) The Likeness - Tana French
9) The Name ...
35) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - I read this amazing novel via BBC Radio 7. What a wonderful example of the human spirit overcoming the most atrocious circumstances.
36) The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien - this was a read back in the Summer that I forgot to ...
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
... fascinating.
As I am probably the only LTer *not* to have read it I am also listening to the BBC Radio 7 reading of A Thousand Slendid Suns . http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00frmm4
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... circle - Jodi Picoult *
- Negentien minuten / Nineteen minutes - Jodi Picoult *
- Duizend schitterende zonnen / A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini *
- Vier vingers: een rechter Tie verhaal - Robert van Gulik (Dutch) *
- Zeven jaar in Tibet / Seven years in Tibet ...
My short list for best books ever:
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Shadow of the Wind
Labor Day
I"m sure there are others that just slipped my mind for now.
... Cave Bear"...will be starting "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton next (for book discussion class in Oct.)
#58. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" , by Khaled Hosseni in waiting on my TBR bookshelf. I enjoyed his "The Kite Runner" when I read it in 2008, so glad to know that you enjoyed "A ...
FICTION
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
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3. God is Dead by Ron Currie
4. Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon READING
5. Web by John Wyndham *** 12/20/09
6. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
7. Consider Her Ways and Other ...
... of view. It made me realize that war is the same horrific experience for everyone, regardless of what "side" you are on. A Thousand Splendid Suns is, like The Kite Runner, a bit too predictable for me, but I know a lot more about Afghanistan after reading it. Same with The White Tig ...
... Remarque
Australia: People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
New Zealand: Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
India: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Cou ...
... best friend is: (A)Treasure(s)
You and your friends are: Same Kind of Different as Me
What’s the weather like: A Thousand Splendid Suns (95 two days ago!)
What is the best advice you have to give: A Will And A Way
Thought for the day: Speak
How I would like to die: (Wit ...
... best friend is: (A)Treasure(s)
You and your friends are: Same Kind of Different as Me
What’s the weather like: A Thousand Splendid Suns (95 two days ago!)
What is the best advice you have to give: A Will And A Way
Thought for the day: Speak
How I would like to die: (With) Bl ...
From susiesharp's library I will pick A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Such a well regarded book probably deserves to be read.
... Nimmo ****
18. The River of Doubt, Candice Millard ****
17. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2, Diterlizzi ****
16. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Hosseini ****1/2
15. The Omnivore's Dilema ***1/2
14. Lamb, Christopher Moore *****
13. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1, Diterlizzi ***1 ...
...
12. Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
13. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
14. Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
15. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
16. Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons
17. Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
18. Family Tree by Barbar ...
... these: The Alchemist, Bingo Palace, Family Matters, The Gathering, A Mercy, Midnight's Children, The Road, A Thousand Splendid Suns .
Berly, A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of my 10 books (you know, the ones I bought so feel I have to read), so I'm glad to know it's one of your top ten. I really want to read The Twin. I think I've already got you tagged on that one. And Into the North does sound good; glad you liked it ...
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
BAHRAIN
BANGLADESH
BHUTAN
BRUNEI
CAMBODIA
CHINA
EAST TIMOR
INDIA
The Heros Walk by Anita Rau Badami
INDONESIA
IRAN
IRAQ
ISAREL
JAPAN
JORDAN
KAZAKHSTAN
KUWAIT
KYRGYZSTAN
LAOS
LEBANON
MALAYSIA
MALDI ...
... North Urrea
2. The Twin Bakker
3. Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie
4. Inkheart Funke
5. Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini
6. Lamb Moore
7. The Book Thief Zusak
8. The Shack Young
9. Tinkers Harding
10. Last Night in Montreal Mandel
Happy R ...
... running through some of my recent reading, focusing on the lives of women at various points through history. For example, A Thousand Splendid Suns , about women in Afghanistan, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, women in China, and this book about Africa. Lets just say I am fully appreciating ...
Challenge dates: October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010
Here are my categories and some preliminary titles for 2010. Might as well really ...
236. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 07/26/09
237. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje 07/27/09
238. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 07/28/09
239. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara 07/29/09
240. The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onett 07/29/09
236. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 07/26/09
237. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje 07/27/09
238. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 07/28/09
239. The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Guevara 07/29/09
240. The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onett 07/29/09
... World by W. Cleon Skousen
24. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
25 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
26 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
... in Heaven, paperback, by Sherman Alexie
7. Don't Get Too Comfortable, paperback, by David Rakoff
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns , hardcover without dustjacket, Khaled Hosseini
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THIS WILL KEEP MOOCHERS FROM REQUE ...
... Nikolai Gogol {8/6}
Wales - How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn {12/26}
ASIA : 19
Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini {7/28}
Bangladesh - A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam {8/15}
China - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie {2/21 ...
... Oil, then Tudor historical fiction. Around last year I OD'd on novels about people who were starving (The Road, 1984, A Thousand Splendid Suns , The Poisonwood Bible, etc...) and just HAD to cleanse my palette with some lighter stuff. So I read Chocolate, some Jane Austen and....uh...um ...
I already listed these in the Book of the Month Club but I'm loving this group so I'm listing them again here:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Death of a Murderer
Mister Pip
The Pillars of the Earth
Silk
Personality
Boy A
The Art of Murder
...
... (Walter Isaacson)
The Golem's Eye (Jonathan Stroud)
Lamb (Christopher Moore)
The Sooterkin (Tom Gilling)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Venus In Furs (Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch)
These are my pick for the second quarter:
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
St. Agnes' Stand by Thomas Eidson
Still Life by Louise Penny
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
... Thief
Also:
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
In Defense of Food
Pride and Prejudice
A Thousand Splendid Suns
When we say for everyone to read, are we assuming culturally similar English-speakers? I include The Poinsonwood Bible and A Thousand Splendid S ...
... horrible. The slaves loved their family members just as I love my family members. This book redefined slavery for me.
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I probably have always been a little bit of a male maucho. Even though this book was about Islamic life in Afghanistan, I ...
... books did you not like? His early books, starting with Eye of the Needle are top-notch thrillers.
I'm a fan of A Thousand Splendid Suns and I highly recommend it. I agree The Kite Runner has the better story but there is a rich beauty to the follow-up that I really admired. I hope ...
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Daniel,
My problem with A Thousand Splendid Suns was that, being familiar with the Muslim culture, I did not find the originality in his second book that I did in his first. The second book seemed as if it were written for an audience, while the first seemed as if it were a story ...
... returned after 1978, instead gaining asylum in the US.
I'm not quite sure exactly what the problem was (for me) with A Thousand Splendid Suns , but it definitely was not from his own experience.
... both.
Since you are not familiar with Afghan (or Muslim) culture, you'll probably also enjoy Kohsseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns . I actually liked his first novel the best because, to me, it was the more original story of the two.
...
12. Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
13. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
14. Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
15. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
16. Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons
17. Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
18. Family Tree by Barbar ...
... on PBS Masterpiece Classic, but I've not read the books.
#195 (richarderus) & #205 (coppers), I've not forgotten about "A Thousand Splendid Suns" ; looking forward to reading it soon. I really liked "The Kite Runner", which I read last summer (watched & liked the movie at about the same ...
#194 Catgwinn - I second richard's recommendation of A Thousand Splendid Suns . It's a splendid read.
...
#195 - richardderus - I'm going to take your suggestion, even though it wasn't directed at me! A friend of mine bought me A Thousand Splendid Suns for my birthday, and everyone seems to highly recommend it.
Still making my way through Nightmares and Dreamscapes, although I did start in on ...
>194 Catgwinn, if you haven't read A Thousand Splendid Suns yet, I would venture to encocurage that choice....
... to start Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton.
My book groups this month are reading In the Woods by Tana French and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
... on my TBR list!!
A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning.....what can I say? Hosseini tells stories so beautifully, so full of emotion.....heartbreaking..... Catgwinn in What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home- June 2009 (Jun 5, 2009, 8:38pm)
On Weds, June 3, I used my B&N giftcard to add "Age of Innocence", "The Painted Veil" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" to my library (& my TBR stack).
... alcottacre, I did really enjoy it so much. This was my review of it:
"I can see why Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns ) wrote a blurb for this book as it certainly belongs in the same category of beautifully written modern fiction that personally takes us into the ...
This week I am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Lost Art of Being Happy, both of which I am enjoying very much.
... to read a second time in the near future. A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini and The Lost Art of Being Happy By Tony Wilkinson.
... want to try and finish The Power of Now next and I also need a good mystery novel for the June genre challenge......plus A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini is sitting on my bedside table.....-pj77
My 2009 reading so far is:
1. Bleak House by Dickens 5 stars
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2 1/2 stars
3. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe 4 1/2 stars
4. Life in the Cul-de-sac by Kuroi 3 1/2 stars
5. Deaf Sentence by David Lodge 3 stars
6. Sorrows ...
... by Irmgard A. Hunt - Non-Fiction
**We have a tradition of doing Nazis for Christmas **
Jan '10: A Thousand Splendid Suns Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Non-Fiction
March '10: What is the What by Dave Eg ...
My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.
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4. Charlotte Roche : Feuchtgebiete
5. Khaled Hosseini :Tausend strahlende Sonnen David ...
... book. He is such a great writer and so easy to read. I think Down Under is still my favourite of his though.
16. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Fantastic book. Would highly recommend this one. I just loved it. Dont read it in public though - I balled my eyes out. This ...
... Nimmo ****
18. The River of Doubt, Candice Millard ****
17. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2, Diterlizzi ****
16. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Hosseini ****1/2
15. The Omnivore's Dilemma ***1/2
14. Lamb, Christopher Moore *****
13. The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1, Diterlizzi *** ...
... to in the book either I live near them(Ottawa, Almonte) or I have lived near(Manitoulin Island). I will have to read A Thousand Splendid Suns and Hotel for sure.
Heidi,
I loved Kite Runner too. A Thousand Splendid Suns was just as good, but I found this one difficult to read. I actually had a knot in my stomach every time I picked up the book, due to extremely graphic violence towards women. It is agonizing that this is the reality of life for women of ...
... on my TBR list, it sounds like a great read. I have read The Kite Runner and really enjoyed it, I have not yet read A Thousand Splendid Suns , is it as good? I have either read or want to read most of your books on your list. I keep checking on your view on some of the books. Thanks!
APRIL 2009
12.The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
13.The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
14.A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
15. The Sad Truth About Happiness by Anne Giardini
... everyone should read. I always reread it whenever I teach it, and I get something different out of it every time.
52. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (372 pages)
This book came highly recommended, and I would recommend it also. There were a couple of places I thought I was ...
International 1/9
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ****
... Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
14.A Thousand Splendid Suns
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I read this as part of my ravelry book group and really enjoyed it although it is a very moving story. I also liked The Kite Runner by the same author which I read last year.
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I'm often wary of contemporary bestsellers - I can never believe that I'm going to love the book as much as everyone else seems to. A Thousand Splendid Suns is never going to be among my favourites, but I'm very glad that I've read it. ...
...
10. The Winner Stands Alone By Paulo Coelho
11. On Beauty By Zadie Smith
12. The Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle
13. A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini
14. The Eyre Affair By Jasper Fforde
15. Return to Wuthering Heights By Anna L'Estrange
16. The Hound of the Baskervilles ...
... by John Speed. I like action-adventure movies
12) What book would you least like to see made into a movie?
A Thousand Splendid Suns because I think, like The Kite Runner,
it wouldn't adapt well to the big screen.
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, ...
4.Racing Odysseus, by Roger H. Martin,
5.Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner, and
6.One Thousand Splendid Suns by Khailed Hosseini
May 2009
7.Yade Kara,Salem Berlin,
8.Elif Shafak, Bastard out of Istanbul
9.Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on A Thousand Splendid Suns (on my list for this year) and God is Not Great (not on my 999 list, but sitting here in the kitchen just beckoning to me...). Happy reading!
About to start Devil in the White City by Erik Larson after finishing a collection of Eudora Welty's novels. Am finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns on audio.
Am just finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini which I was looking forward to after liking The Kite Runner so much but thought the eleven cd's might be a bit much. Not so, am going to be sorry to see it end, although after all the depressing conditions in the book I am looking ...
#7)A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Audiobook
A wonderfully touching story with attention to detail.
The relationship that develops between the two women is unnervingly depicted through moments of suffering and joy. Hosseini is a writer of sensitivity and mystifies with his ability ...
... of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov
I'm mainly a one-book-at-a-time girl and was supposed to be reading A Thousand Splendid Suns
"God Knows", he muttered.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
"So, is this good or bad?"
#155 & 156 - I just ordered A Thousand Splendid Suns using bonus points from QPB, and am looking forward to it.
OH!!! DeltaQueen50 , I'm jealous of you... I'd love to be able to read A Thousand Splendid Suns again for the first time! It was every bit as good as The Kite Runner, and I think maybe even better ;-) Enjoy... but keep the Kleenex handy.
... Tattoo and I am starting April Lady by Georgette Heyer, very light and frothy. Along with that I am also starting A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini with high expections after loving The Kite Runner.
... how to spend my bonus points with Quality Paperback Books. So for $4.99 each and $2.49 total shipping, I will receive:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Brass Verdict byMichael Connelly
The Likeness by Tana French
How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
...
Has it been a quarter already?! My top five would be, in order of reading:
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Ghost - Robert Harris
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
Olympos - Dan Simmons (won't have finished this by the end of March, ...
I don't read enough to have five picks but my top two are:
Cane River
A Thousand Splendid Suns
For fluffy reading I'd pick:
Such a Pretty Fat
... Frank by Nancy Horan
#2-The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
#3-The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
#4-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#5-God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#6-Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
... Frank by Nancy Horan
#2-The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
#3-The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
#4-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#5-God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#6-Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
... Frank by Nancy Horan
#2 is The Mammoth Cheese by Sheri Holman
#3 is The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
#4 is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#5 is God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#6 is Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
#7 is Winter Study by Nevada Barr
...
I haven't been in my book club very long, but other favorites:
A Thousand Splendid Suns was generally well-liked.
Astrid and Veronika--most of the rest of them really like this, though I found it really tedious and hard to get through.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox--They read this ...
... Pieces by Anne Michaels, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss,Atonement by Ian McEwan I enjoyed once I got into it! A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini, Possession by A.S Byatt, The Plague by Albert Camus, anything by Tim Winton, Remains of the Day by Ishiguro and interesting ...
8) Fear and Trembling, Amelie Nothomb
9) A thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini
10) French Milk, Lucy Knisely
11) The Outcast, Sadie Jones
12) The Whiskey Rebels David Liss
13) Twenty Chickens for a Saddle Robyn Scott
14) Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
15 Good Bye Chunky Rice Cr ...
... brackets for touchstones: for books, for authors -- the book ones work more often than the author ones do. A Thousand Splendid Suns and Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb -- as I said....
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns --I heard mixed reviews of this one, but I couldn't put it down and devoured it in about three days.
10. A Three-Dog Life--This was lovely, but I'm not sure about the ending. In many ways it was fitting, but it felt really abrupt to me.
... the story. A marvelous rendering of a love affair that almost never was amidst the earthy people of a farming community.
A Thousand Splendid Suns -Fiction/Non-fiction from other countries/cultures
A great read, a page-turner that taught me a great deal about a culture I was not familiar with. ...
(I regret that I have read A Thousand Splendid Suns .)
I have not read Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons, but I have read The Heaven Tree.
I have not read A Thousand Splendid Suns
But I have read Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons
I have not read Hero with a Thousand Faces but I have read A Thousand Splendid Suns
... shouldn't gripe! They also announced next year's visiting authors:
Khaled Hosseini - loved both The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns
Geraldine Brooks - really liked Year of Wonders
Pete Hamill - I'm unfamiliar with him
Richard Russo - I've heard of him, but never ...
... member of my book club, who keeps suggesting books I've hated one after another, including The Mermaid's Chair and A Thousand Splendid Suns and Light on Snow, to name a few.
My sense about Oprah's books is that yes, there's Faulkner and Anna Karenina on that list, but a lot of ...
I'm reading A Thousand Spendid Suns . I just started it and book club meets on Wednesday so I need to get busy!
Asia:
Afghanistan: Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
China: Pearl S. Buck - A Good Year
India: Padma Viswanathan - The Toss of a Lemon
Iraq: D J Murphy - A Thousand Veils
Israel: Ellie Wiesel - Dawn
Japan: Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Nepal: Kiran Desai - The In ...
Just wanted to post A Thousand Splendid Suns which didn't work in touchstones last time, and I will do the review tomw since it is late. This is # 3 and God is Not Great will be #4-almost done with this fascinating book. I have to see where they fit in my 999 challenge, too.
Davina Porter and Barbara Rosenblat. I have to find out the name of the woman who read A Thousand Splendid Suns which I just finished. She was lovely. The cd is downstairs so I'll check it out tom'w. MB
... must be a fascinating group. I will return to read all the posts as it is quite late tonight. I just finished listening to A Thousand Splendid Suns and have started listening to a Kathy Reichs book Break No Bones A Thousand Splendid Suns was fantastic, both the reader and most definitely the ...
The Mermaid Chair is our book club choice for May (after A Thousand Splendid Suns for March and Vonnegut's Night Mother for April). I loved The Secret Life of Bees! Which is really something for me as I'm an AVID historical fiction and non-fiction geek. Our Book Club has broadened my ...
... should help get me to 50.
So far this year I've read --
1. Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows for the 3rd time
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. Wicked
4. Son Of A Witch
TBR for 2009
Face of a stranger
A Dangerous Mourning
Defend and Betray
Mermaid Chair
The Meanin ...
... varied, and include (to name a few) Five Quarters of the Orange, Can You Keep a Secret?, A History of Reading, and A Thousand Splendid Suns . I am also working my way through Tea and Taste: The Visual Language of Tea and A Year in High Heels.
Very excited to be here with so many ...
I haven't read A Thousand Splendid Suns
But I have read Cheaper by the Dozen
I haven't read The Vampire Diaries but I have read A Thousand Splendid Suns
... years ago. Still have to read Hard Times, Barnaby Rudge and Martin Chuzzlewit. Want to reread David Copperfield.
A Thousand Splendid Suns --I'm always suspicious of highly hyped books, and I did not particularly like this book. It didn't feel real to me. The Wasted Vigil has been ...
I have just picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns . I was really moved by The Kite Runner and look forward to this one.
#25: And Do you have any idea of how long it took to write it? LOL
I haven't read Enslaved by ducks but I have read A thousand Splendid Suns
... Year of Living Biblically TAKEN A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mooch 6 books and choose one of the following hardcovers signed by author:
http://bookmooch.com/detail/1594489580 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar ...
My favorite: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I had a similar reaction to A Thousand Splendid Suns . I really enjoyed the book--now I need to go read The Kite Runner.
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. After reading The Kite Runner I thought this book missed the mark at first. At roughly 400 pages, the first 350 were ok.... good story but nothing gripping. But around the 350 mark Hosseini caught me completely off-guard. So much so that I ...
... Senji Kuroi, 1/09
Naoko by Keigo Higashino 6/09
No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu 7/09
AFGHANISTAN
A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini, 1/09
VIETNAM
The Sorrow of War, Bao Ninh, 1/09
PAKISTAN
Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh, 2/09
INDIA
...
... is about the culture clash between a young Japanese man and the locals here.
Then off to Afghanistan in A Thousand Splendid Suns . I realise I've come to this book years after most other people, but I was glad that I finally read it. I don't think it is a great work of ...
... target="_blank"> A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I was reluctant to read this, thinking that it couldn't possibly live up to the hype and never quite feeling in the mood for a ...
re #55:
I think my comments about A Thousand Splendid Suns may have sounded more critical than I intended. I totally agree with you about the plot, thought that the 2 points-of-view were nicely handled, and that the uplifting parts contributed to the believability of the story. I found the ...
I find "enjoy" or "like" difficult to use for A Thousand Splendid Suns , but I thought it was a very good book and an important book. I thought The Kite Runner was a better book -- far more powerful, and more believable characterization -- but in many ways, I found A Thousand Splendid Suns ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Category: Around the World - Afganistan
Just started A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning. I may be the only person who hasn't already read this. I'm not sure it is going to be my sort of thing as I can see it being endless misery, but a colleague gave me it to read so I feel I should.
... paperback
3. Widdershins, Charles de Lint, trade paperback, like new
Mooch 5 books and get 1 of the following
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini, trade paperback, brand new
2. The Decoration of Houses, Edith Wharton, paperback, brand new
3. Something Rotten, Jasper Ffor ...
35. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
36. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
(2007) 365 pp
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a mediocre novel. Although the story is moving and some of the characters are sympathetic, I never forgot I was only reading a novel. I was not enticed into a living, breathing world, inhabited ...
#45: I also enjoyed The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns has been on Continent TBR for a while now, so I guess I ought to read it. I think I will be going on an Afghanistan kick for a while since I have Kabul in Winter, The Bookseller of Kabul and The Sewing Circles of Herat all ...
... selections
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I own these four and will read them all at some point.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I read The Kite Runner in November, and enjoyed it, so I thought I would give this one a go too. While The Kite Runner is a male-centric novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns focuses on two Afghani women. Hosseini is not ...
Completed A Thousand Splendid Suns just a few minutes ago. It was another solid effort by Hosseini, who is not the most literary author, but does tell an emotionally charged story.
Cait86 - I have A Thousand Splendid Suns on my pile to read. I must read it soon as a colleague loaned it to me, but I'm trying to read something in each of my categories first. I hope to get round to it by the end of January.
I've just started Shakespeare by Bill Bryson, which is my ...
Finished Persuasion today, so I think I will read something a bit easier - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Finished Persuasion, so I am now moving onto A Thousand Splendid Suns .
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I agree with you about A Thousand Splendid Suns , detailmuse. It was a good story but not one I enjoyed all that much because so much of its material was familiar to me both from having lived in the Middle East and from reading much middle eastern literature. On the other hand, The Kit ...
... of the Hedgehog.
Regarding drawing from your 50-book list -- I liked Gardens of Water but was disappointed in A Thousand Splendid Suns (not original or engaging); and it took me three years to slog through The Corrections.
(P.S. I just saw that you finished Hotel on the Corner ...
You're right karenmarie - it's time I got round to it. I'll start with my 'shortlist':
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Death of a Murderer
Mister Pip
The Pillars of the Earth
Silk
Personality
Boy A
The Art of Murder
As If I Am Not There ...
... Agency {7/22}
31. IRAN - Censoring an Iranian Love Story {7/23}
32. DENMARK -Niels Lyhne {7/25}
33. AFGHANISTAN - A Thousand Splendid Suns {7/28}
34. URUGUAY - The Shipyard {7/29}
35. CROATA - On the Edge of Reason {8/3}
36. ALGERIA - L’Étranger {8/4}
37. UKRAINE - Dead ...
... last year here if you're interested.
I was bought a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns for my birthday in 2007 but still haven't read it... I will get around to it, it's just not top of my list.
FlossieT I agree with you that after all the hype The Kite Runner was disappointing. I am currently reading 1000 Splendid Suns only because it is my book club's choice for January. I am finding it to be shallow, although the story of the women's friendship is interesting enough to make me ...
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (367)
Amazing book, read it in my English class.
... morning I also noticed in our weekly regional paper that our town library is holding a book discussion this Thursday on A Thousand Splendid Suns . It's been on my TBR pile, so I will start it later today.
Animal's people
and
A Thousand Splendid Suns I think just about everyone would have read this one by now, tho'.
... February
6. The Day we had Hitler Home by Rodney Hall October
7. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniDecember
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
9. The Three Miss Ma ...
... and my first book for 2009 is Bleak House. Will post again when I've finished.
JANUARY BOOKS
1. Bleak House
2. One Thousand Splendid Suns
3. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
4. Life in the Cul-de-sac
5. Deaf Sentence
6. The Sorrow of War
7. Careless in Red
8. Poor People ...
... – Margaret Atwood
3. TBA
4. TBA
5. TBA
6. TBA
7. TBA
8. TBA
9. TBA
Contemporary Fiction (2000-present)
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini - FINISHED January 10/09
2. The Road – Cormac McCarthy - FINISHED January 3/09
3. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
4. ...
... Crucial Conversations gang. I got about halfway and the holidays came. I'd like to finish this weekend. I have started A Thousand Splendid Suns , which I've owned since right after it was published. I'm looking forward to dedicating some time to it.
... Best previously unread classic Persuasion by Jane Austen
Most memorable woman character written by a man A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
--runnerup--Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Best historical fiction Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
...
My boss let us out of work early yesterday so I had to stop at Goodwill. I netted A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell.
... Turgenev
7. Biographie de la faim by Amélie Nothomb
8. A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
11. White Oleander by Janet Fitch
12. Die Reise nach Trulala by Wladi ...
... Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson which technically I'm not quite done with.
Wow-- I could have listed another 5 easily.
... Ruiz Zafron
The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... I'll start with The Yellow Wallpaper, then Watchmen, NanoTech, The Secret History, The Time Traveler's Wife and A Thousand Splendid Suns . I also brought two more grapic novels with me, just in case I ran out - The Complete Persepolis and V for Vendetta. I'm going to try not to ...
The first book I start in 2009 will be A Thousand Splendid Suns . I will be finishing All the Pretty Horses first though.
My X-Mas Haul:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Child of a Dead God by Barb & J.C. Hendee
The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green
The Vacant Throne by Joshua Palmatier
The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely & Vali Chandrasekara ...
My X-Mas Haul:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell
Child of a Dead God by Barb & J.C. Hendee
The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. Green
The Vacant Throne by Joshua Palmatier
The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely & Vali Chandrasekaran
...
I received the following:
The Blue Noon by Robert Ryan
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
The Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
I also received $45.00 worth of book gift certificates to spend at my leisure.
... think of anything else a book it is. It's better than weird or boring gifts...
My greatest success was giving my sister A Thousand Splendid Suns for her birthday (as well as The Memory Keeper's Daughter and Half a Yellow Sun) Because my whole family ended up reading that one.
My ...
Thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to have tissues near by. I didn't with A Thousand Splendid Suns and got tears all over myself for Mariam.
... Mandy, and to me the best one out of the two of them was the kite runner, maybe because I read that one in English and A Thousand Splendid Suns in Spanish but I liked them both, I hope you enjoy them and tell us what you think about it.
P.S. I cried a little bit with that book so have ...
I just got The Kite Runner last night. I already read A thousand Splendid Suns and really enjoyed it and I hear The Kite Runner is amazing. Also i'm currently on Three to get Deadly in the Stephanie Plum series.
Nothing important? And you found A Thousand Splendid Suns there? You are in for such a treat! Probably one of the best books I have read this year.
... for over a week, thinking there was nothing important in it. Lo and behold there were two books, sent as RABCKs:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Shadow of the Silk Road
Also, over the weekend I used my Borders bucks for The Hour I First Believed.
I am glad you made the number so high. It was a good reading year. I had a hard time getting it down to 15.
Fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington
Made in the USA by Billie Letts
Non-fiction (I seem to have ...
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
From LisaMorr's library I select A Thousand Suns by Khalid Hossenini. I enjoyed reading
The Kite Runner this past summer. I watched the DVD/film while I was reading the book. The book & movie complement each other nicely.
My 999 categories for now; they may (probably will) change.* And is it cheating to move a book from one category to another during the year? 'Cas I'll probably be a cheater! Will change titles to black type, and date, when finished.
1. Books Discovered on 'bonnie-runs' to my Favorite Indep ...
Next will be The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde for an online book club, then A Thousand Splendid Suns which a colleague has loaned to me, so it would be polite to read it soon. After that, I have a few crime novels that have been sitting around for a while.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden- my favourite!!
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...
Fiction - General
1. (Book #8 for the year) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
2. (Book #10 for the year) The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
3. (Book #21 etc.) The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
4. (29) The Dressmaker - Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
5. (31) The ...
... this book; I finally caved, and loved it)
A Damsel in Distress - PG Wodehouse
84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Cotillion - Georgette Heyer
Have His Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers
Hubbub - Emily Co ...
... Towler
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Snow Angels by Stewart O'Nan
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... reading/listening has also slowed down. If only life wouldn't get in the way of the important stuff! :-)
Audiobook #16 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Wow--this one is not to be missed. A sometimes overwhelming story of two women and their lives in the tumult of Afghanist ...
... Vinci Code showed up repeatedly on this list).
Generally speaking, I see a lot of nominations from many countries for A Thousand Splendid Suns , The Reluctant Fundamentalist, On Chesil Beach and others.
The Australian libraries didn't agree on many titles but there were multiple ...
... B>
What is the What - Dave Eggers
Asia Afghanistan
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hossini
China
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
India
Death of Vishnu - Manil Suri
The Hungry ...
... I haven't read the "You know who" book which I sincerely hope you will tell me the name of...Like you, I also would give A Thousand Splendid Suns a try next year.
... after all, as if anyone needed reminding :-)
I've broken my bookring reading block and finished off 3 this month.
A Thousand Splendid Suns - the best book I've read this year.
The Welsh Girl - part of fleebos 2007 booker challenge.
My life as a traitor - the true story of an Irani ...
My book group read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini this past summer, and I think all the women in the group, myself included, were very impressed with Hosseini's handling of the two main characters, both female, and of the way he developed their friendship (in follow-up to MrsHeisenber ...
... I found the book really boring and flat.
A nudge for The Kite Runner it's a great story to read, but I agree A Thousand Splendid Suns is better.
I didn't really like On Chesil Beach but it's such a short novel that I can't really de-nudge it. If you don't like it hasn't taken ...
#101 - *Loved* A Thousand Splendid Suns , much more than The Kite Runner. Enjoy!
Afghanistan - A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I found A thousand spendid suns to be a very engaging read. So much so that I found I was quite resentful of the fact that I had to work & couldn't devour it all in one go like I wanted to. Khaled Hosseini paints a very vivid ...
Here is the list of countries I will be using.
Afghanistan A thousand splendid suns , Albania Chronicle in Stone, Algeria Attack
Andorra, Angola, Antigua
Argentina, Armenia, Australia
Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas
Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados
Belarus, Belgium, Belize
Benin, Bhutan, Boliv ...
... ay
Police at the Funeral wihtin the UK
Cloud Atlas, The Black Pharoah, and The Forgotten Garden to Canada and A Thousand Splendid Suns to Australia.
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I can't speak to The Kite Runner because I'll never read it--I read A Thousand Splendid Suns and hated that, pretty much. Women living miserable lives in backward civilizations is not something I want to dwell on. Though, actually, women living miserable lives in the good ol' USA is no ...
... *
Jemima J by Jane Green *
MIDDLE EAST AGHANISTAN
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hossini
IRAN
Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani ***
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
ISRAEL
Light Fell By Fallen ...
My top nudge would go to The Kite Runner, followed closely by One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, A Thousand Splendid Suns , Good Behavior (Keane is so wickedly catty), and The Magic Toyshop.
Definite non-nudges go to The Quincunx - a miserable attempt at trying to copy the Victo ...
So many to nudge! I adored both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns . They, plus Death of a Murderer (short of nudges here, I guess, because it's probably only of interest in the UK but it is a fabulous book).
Minor nudges too for The Quincunx, The Magic Toyshop, Watching ...
... Khaled Hosseini books. I think The Kite Runner was a great novel for a first time writer but I liked the story arc of A Thousand Splendid Suns better. Most people I know, in real life that is, read one then immediately or soon after read the other anyway - usually they are borrowing my ...
... Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which I can't recommend highly enough.
The 43rd of the year, however, was A Thousand Splendid Suns on audio, way back in March/April.
Both were borrowed from the library. I heard of the first through LibraryThing and thought it sounded great. ...
G. Non-US Settings
1. The Ministry of Special Cases* by Nathan Englander
2. knots* by Nuruddin Farah
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns * by Khaled Hosseini
4. The Island of the Day Before* by Umberto Eco
5. The Storrington Papers* by Dorothy Eden
6. Gad's Hall and The Haunting of Gad's H ...
... keable.
The Kite Runner--easy to see why it was such a bestseller. I think it more flawed than Hosseini's second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns , but still worth the reading.
I was surprised that I enjoyed Water for Elephants; it's not the kind of book I usually pick up, but it was a ...
Karen, A Thousand Splendid Suns was much better than The Kite Runner, in my opinion.
Flossie, I've read a few of your book, but they didn't quite knock me out: The Sea, Scandal of the Season, The Birth of Venus, The Meaning of Night.
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is lovely, if ...
... The Kite Runner and was one of very few that thought it was overrated. I did not enjoy it much so did not bother with A Thousand Splendid Suns .
John Banville is a superfluous and intellectually stimulating writer - but have not read The Sea so cannot nudge that one. I read The Lemu ...
... ser
How to Live Dangerously - Warwick Cairns
Ways to Live Forever - Sally Nicholls
Julius Winsome - Gerard Donovan
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
... A Fable About Following Your Dream Paulo Coelho
4. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
6. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
7. Gilead Marilynne Robinson
8. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides NY Times Best of 2002 also ...
... and far-fetched metaphors, just stark (but still detailed) descriptions to get the situation across. I'll probably look for A Thousand Splendid Suns sometime.
35/75 completed
... lot of flowery sentences, just stark (but still detailed) descriptions to get the situation across. I'll probably look for A Thousand Splendid Suns sometime.
22/75 completed
... World (9 different countries excluding USA and UK)
1. Cloud Street by Tim Winton Australia
2.A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Distant Star by Roberto Bolano Chile
4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wa ...
... Young Adult Literature.
Fiction
Gold
The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
Silver
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
For a complete listing of all categories: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/features/caBookAwards/
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Lost Ones by Kevin Anderson
Young Guns by Kent Wright
Raisin Buns by Catherine Safer
The Huns by E.A. Thompson
1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Ender's Game
3. Brisingr
4. The Search for the Red Dragon
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns
>45: Shadow of the Wind was a stunning read, eh?
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... MusicMom!
Those are good choices! I loved The Remains of the Day and The Kite Runner. But you might want to move A Thousand Splendid Suns up in your TBR pile, as well. A lot of Lters loved it, and you never know, you might be amongst them!
Oi ... now I'll have to check out Tears ...
... list that goes on my TBR pile with be Remains of the Day and The Kite Runner because I own them already. I also own Thousand Suns but I guess I'll leave that one until I get some more compelling books read. I bought both of those on the recommendation of a friend.
A couple of ...
... readable parts of the Rhino book - JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. And, in no particular order: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Darkest Fear, The Final Detail, Good for Good, and Tell No One all by Harlan ...
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns last night, and I don't think I have ever cried so much while reading a novel.
I have just started The Book Thief.
I finished Family Matters and have just started A Thousand Splendid Suns . I am only a handful of pages in and am already hooked.
... the term L-F with books like Master Butcher's Singing Club which I ended up really detesting. I also just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns for book club, and didn't really like it, either, in the end. Not that either of them were particularly badly written. But for example, in the case ...
... English department of a Northern Virginian high school (part of my grad program) and I know that both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are being taught by at least one of the teachers.
... that came in for this year. It seems like the English teachers here do a lot of contemporary stuff, i.e. Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , A Long Way Gone, The Glass Castle, Shabanu, Into Thin Air, etc. along with the more traditional classics and anthologies. But then I ...
Yes!!!! *Excited "the TPBM" matches so well*
The local librarian just called to tell me that my book club book A Thousand Splendid Suns and the other book I requested, James Triptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon have arrived. So I'll be going later today to collect them. Y ...
... on a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washed over her.” From A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
edited to fix typos
... Hosseini
21. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
22. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
23. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
24. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
25. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
26. The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
27. The Dead Of Summer by Camill ...
34. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
35. The Murdered House by Pierre Magnan
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" was great. The story had me turning the pages and I read it within 1 day. I was fascinated by the strength of those women.
I picked up "The Murdered House" from my ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
44. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
What a great book, and it had a fantastic ending I thought. Not happy per se, but very fitting to the story. Although I might have to give a slight edge to The Kite Runner for being a little bit better, I still enjoyed it very much. And I ...
... de Sissi d'André Besson
8. Mémoires d'un âne de la Comtesse de Ségur
9. Les grand-mères de Doris Lessing
10. Mille soleils splendides de Khaled Hosseini
11. Lunar Park de Bret Ellis Easton
12. Le Jeune Homme et la mort de Ruth Rendell
13. Out de Natsuo Kirino
14. L'Homme ...
... is I don't understand why studying contemporary literature seems to be left until college. Why not read Salman Rushdie, Khaled Hosseinni , Cormac McCarthy or Phillip Roth? I don't think you should eliminate classics altogether, but I think plenty of students would take more interest in ...
Briefly started A Thousand Splendid Suns and I'm balancing it out with Eleven On Top. I figure if it's anything like The Kite Runner I'll need something light to go along with it.
For my read-at-work-when-we're-slow book I'm reading Wuthering Heights, a classic that I've never read or ...
... to her novels but think this one is her best.
Through a Glass Darkly and The Dark Angels by Karleen Koen
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
I belong to audible.com. Not sure, but I think that non-members may also be able to go ...
#293 Very much looking forward to A Thousand Splendid Suns after reading this. (Have been anyway because I loved The Kite Runner too, but this gives me a new kick in the pants...) Have been wondering 'what next' since finishing The Magician's Assistant this afternoon (LOVED it). So I guess ...
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns yesterday morning. I was surprised that I thought it was even better than The Kite Runner. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR .
Currently about 1/ ...
29. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini
This is a novel about two women in Afghanistan married to an abusive and very traditional man. I read this mainly because I wanted to learn more about Afghanistan, and I like to read the women's perspective. It was a beautiful story, both ...
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning. I really loved the book. It was even better than The Kite Runner, and I that one's one of my top reads this year. My review is In the Shadow ...
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning, and loved it! I thought it was even better than The Kite Runner. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR .
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning, and loved it! I thought it was even better than The Kite Runner. My review is In the Shadow of Mt. TBR .
well, back to One More Year ...
... the huge adjustments that they had to make or not make. I have posted my review.
But I can also understand the draw of A Thousand Splendid Suns . It was a fabulous book.
...
Edited to add: Because The first one sucked so bad I don't want to pick the book back up, and instead I keep reaching for A Thousand Splendid Suns when I sit down to read. I'd rather do house work, honestly, than go back to OMY. So someone, ANYONE, tell me it gets better!
... hevalier.
7. Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland.
8. Pilate's Wife: A Novel of the Roman Empire, Antoinette May.
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini.
I'll need to find some library slips to update...but I'm curious about how many I'll have read by August.
... the Shadow of Mt. TBR .
I've started A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, which is really sad so far. Next on the ARC list to read One More Year by Sana Krasikov. It's thinner, so I'm hoping it'll ...
... two hilarious ones in the last 20 minutes.
Funny Bones for The Lovely Bones.
and
A Thousand Golden Tongues for A Thousand Splendid Suns .
i just finished the thirteenth tale and loved it. i started a thousand splendid suns yesterday and can't put it down! i am also reading the portable dorothy parker here and there and enjoying it as well! it has been a long time since i read three books in a row that i really loved. i will ...
I have never read the Jane Austen} books, so that is on my list.
Also on the list:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Kite Runner
A Soldier's Promise
Rhett Butlers People
A Bend in the Road
A Walk to Remember
Jane Eyre
Going to a cottage in Boothbay Harbor, Maine for ...
... soon finish Uglies which I'm loving and then it's on to one of my other library books - either The Garden Of Last Days, A Thousand Splendid Suns or The Time Traveler's Wife. I just hope I can keep renewing these until I finish them, and that no one has a hold on any of them!
Currently about 3/4 done with Bayou Farewell and have started Mayflower as well. Next up are:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Blood Diamonds
The Gulag Archipelago
... And at some point getting around to finishing
Alexander Hamilton
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Adventure of English
...
35. Pirate's daughter by Margaret Cezair Thompson
36. Blood of flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
37. A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner was also a book that stayed with me long after I put the book down. I am now waiting to read A Thousand Splendid Suns . My daughter just finished this book and she tells me it's also a great read.
... are in happy marriages, love their husbands, are loved by their husbands and are not suffering from abuse. This is not A Thousand Splendid Suns .
*What were some of the things you learned about Muslim women in this book?
I learned that there is a long, proud history of Muslim ...
... ways to sort it as hopefully you'll see.
http://www.melankolia.net/bookmooch/wishlist.ph
As I write this #1 is A Thousand Splendid Suns wanted by 466 people.
Anything by Hakuri Murakami, whose name I'm probably spelling wrong, seems to get mooched very fast, in my experience.
Just one book for me today, unless the Big Brown Sleigh comes later, but it's a good one. From BookMooch I scored A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
... in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry by Reginald Shepherd 04/04/08
A Thousand Splendid Suns The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari 02/10/08
Water for Elephants< ...
... (non fiction)
12. 3-24-08: I Have Heard You Calling in the Night by Thomas Healy c. 2006 (non fiction)
13. 3-30-08 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini c. 2007 (fiction)
14. 4-5-08: East, Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul c. 2006 (fiction)
15. 4-11-08 A Stranger in the Kingdom ...
... soon as i finish love, i plan to finally start two books i have been eager to read for a while: the thirteenth tale and a thousand splendid suns .
... i have been dying to read:
the thirteenth tale by diane setterfield
post birthday world by lionel shriver
a thousand splendid suns by khaled hosseini
dream when you're feeling blue by elizabeth berg
change of heart by jodi picoult
... seems you were right... I couldn't go throught the week with 9 points... Several books were available on my Wishlist (A Thousand Splendid Suns for one) and now I have 2.8 points.
... magazines, including The New Yorker, I believe - not too shabby! ;-) I finished that on Thursday evening, 6/12.
20. A thousand splendid suns , finished the audiobook earlier today on my flight to Seattle. I liked it very much, think I'll have to buy a copy at some point. Very ...
... Celeste Bradley - my first Regency Romance in a long, long time, spicy and delightful, just what I needed after reading A Thousand Splendid Suns . Now, I'm going to begin Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips.
#173, 174, 176 - It's interesting because I was able to relate to A Thousand Splendid Suns more than The Kite Runner and enjoyed it more. I think maybe it was easier for me to get drawn into the story because it was told from the female perspective. It was depressing in lots of places, but I ...
... at points, but it's also beautiful and it's a journey of self discovery and forgiveness. It's amazing. I'm dying to read A Thousand Splendid Suns , but after Kite Runner, I know I have to wait until I refill my antidepressant prescription.
The Kite Runner truly is a book you must ...
#173 mrsradclife - Do read The Kite Runner - it's one of the best books I've ever read! It was a much easier read than A Thousand Splendid Suns not nearly as depressing. I was able to relate to it much better, though both are very good.
#41 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Very, very depressing book about the hardships and freindship between two women in war-torn Afghanistan. I liked his first one much more. For some reason I was not as emotionally involved in this one as I was with The Kite Runner. Time for ...
#41 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Very, very depressing book about the hardships and freindship between two women in war-torn Afghanistan. I liked his first one much more. For some reason I was not as emotionally involved in this one as I was with The Kite Runner. Time for ...
After just finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns , I'm looking forward to some light reading now with Desperately Seeking a Duke!
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns . I feel like I need a little time to digest this book, a very sad and depressing tale of women and refugess in war torn Afghanistan.
the dumas club followed me home from a second hand bookstore last week, and my sister returned a thousand splendid suns , which has been doing the rounds around the family - one those gift books you are given so the giver (my parents) could borrow it and read it :-).
I am just starting A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
... Kite Runner until now? I'd seen it on the new books shelf when it first came out, but never picked it up. However, I read A Thousand Splendid Suns when it came out and loved it. So, when my mom passed along her copy of The Kite Runner, I couldn't wait to read it and wasn't disappointed. I ...
The next few for me are
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Thirteenth Tale
Sunrise on the Mediterranean
along with a few highland romances interspersed between them.
I brought home A Thousand Splendid Suns from the library today.
... great narrator, Virginia Leishman (not sure of spelling).
My next audio is the book discussion group selection for June, A thousand splendid suns . I loved The kite runner, and am looking forward to this follow-up.
... Englander
2- the glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls
3- suite française by Irene Nemirovsky
4- a thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
5- for the relief of unbearable urges by Nathan Englander
6- Black & White by Dani Shapiro
7- the Last Town O ...
... Englander
2- the glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls
3- suite française by Irene Nemirovsky
4- a thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
5- for the relief of unbearable urges by Nathan Englander
6- black & white by Dani Shapiro
7- the last town ...
... expect it to work, but although I read the book practically straight through, found it believable and touching.
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Nothing really to add to all the positive talk except that I did keep wanting to get back to the older woman's story.
...
I'm reading River of Doubt , A Thousand Splendid Suns , Antigone , and continuing with an ongoing effort to get through the Greek "lives" in Plutarch's Lives
... my taste has changed.
20 Creepers David Morrell
I didn't love this book, at least it was a fast read.
21 A thousand splendid suns Khaled Hosseini
this book was so sad, so distressing and disturbing. I was relived when the ending got better.
22 Mystery walk Robert R. ...
16. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. A quick read. Was satisfactory, not at all great. I loved The Kite Runner, so this was a bit disappointing.
17. My Father’s Orchid by Rayda Jacobs. South African author. Quick read. Only got into the book after 100 pages or so. Enjoye ...
... so I don't see myself being able to get back to update for a while unless I MAKE time to do so..so here I go.
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns about two weeks ago now. I was warned that this was an intense book and they weren't wrong. I actually had to stop reading it on the way to work ...
... minute to catch up - still kept up my reading though - so things I'm just not willing to sacrifice.
75. (104) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (367pp)
I'm really glad I read this one but found it quite emotional. (I actually had to stop reading it on the way to work as I ...
Just learned that the film rights to A Thousand Splendid Suns have been purchased and filming will begin in 2009.
Source: Internet Movie Database
... our antisocial selves to show up and contribute!
Aha! Name our group Antisocialics
Anonymous!
Nearly finished with A Thousand Splendid Suns and will go straight to Brick Lane from there!
... and Tamarind Woman looking forward to digging into them.
I am currently working on Native Son and plan to read A Thousand Splendid Suns next but with knowing how my book selections go it maybe a little bit before I get to it.
Thanks, Bookworm! I have 4 cats, all of them from feral colonies. Only 15 legs between them. :-)
I have A Thousand Splendid Suns on my list. k4k
... question!It is hard to choose which book I like best; they are both excellent.
I will say that I'm identifying more with A Thousand Splendid Suns because it's written from a woman's point of view and truly brings home what a terrible ordeal it is to be female and considered barely above the ...
... movie because I thought it might not be what I would expect and be disappointed. One day I will read it again.
I read A Thousand Splendid Suns but liked TKR better - but it was still very good.
Just to push some Canadian books - I recommend all of these:
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The O ...
Started this last evening...am one-third of the way through and A Thousand Splendid Suns is everything I'd hoped it would be! I shouldn't even comment this soon but it's a book that sweeps you away.
Would love to hear from others who have read it or read The Kite Runner.
Khaled Hosseini is ...
... I said some tuff parts that make you want to put it down but still a very good read. I have to say I liked it enough to buy A Thousand Splendid Suns which is the latest book Khaled Hosseini wrote. I have yet to make it this one but it is in my TBR stack. I haven't seen the movie nor do I think ...
... from this book. The only books I had read previously about Muslim women were fictionalized accounts like Brick Lane and A Thousand Splendid Suns . I thought it was important to read a nonfiction book about the subject.
I guess mine would be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
... the women most badly oppressed were either poor or outsiders or both. A good example of this is the lead character in A Thousand Splendid Suns , who is the poor bastard daughter of a wealthy, influential business man. On the other hand, in Baghdad Burning and The Translator, the main ...
... only read about 70 pages of it, enjoyed The Kite Runner and will be reading The Road for bookclub.
Might consider A Thousand Splendid Suns because I've heard that it's even better than The Kite Runner, but have no real interest in any of the others.
Okay, Okay....I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns , and am working on many different titles: Late Innings, Alexander Hamilton, My Life as A Man, The Human Stain, The Bolsheviks Come to Power and The Mosquito Coast. Can you say that I have eclectic tastes?
Recently finished The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani. A very pleasant, light read, similar to A Thousand Splendid Suns in style and content. Set in 1620s Iran.
... Interesting for the descriptions of food, social customs and, of course, rugmaking.
Similar in style and content to A Thousand Splendid Suns but a little better IMO.
Recommended as a pleasant, light read.
April reads
27. Mille soleils splendides by Khaled Hosseini
28. The End of the Alphabet by C.S. Richardson
29. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
30. Le jeune homme et la mort by Ruth Rendell
31. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
32. Book by Book by Michael Dirda
33. Out by Natsuo ...
... on so I figured I can post my thread now :)
1. Philippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl
2. Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
... by Alexandre Dumas (why no touchstone?!)
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
It's been a good winter! :)
... of our book clubs past selections: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Pope Joan, The Piano Tuner, Rise and Shine, A Thousand Splendid Suns , The Whole World Over. I have to say I enjoyed pretty much all of them. It's our current selection which I am having hard time with. It is Sno ...
Detail Muse, I was just looking at A Thousand Splendid Suns on my shelf this morning, having heard and read so many great things about it. Now I'm glad I left it there and picked up The Blind Assassin instead. What are your ideas for the "best darn book"?
I vote for that, to redeem your Med ...
... such, while reading, LOL!) that I was able to slog through The Power of Now.
But the biggest disappointment was A Thousand Splendid Suns . I’d read 50 pages last summer then put it aside; read 80 pages more last fall then put it aside. Upon finishing the novel’s four parts now, ...
... Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah over the last couple of weeks. I tried On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, but like A Thousand Splendid Suns was not quite in the right mood to read it just yet. I can usually go back to those kinds of books later and read them straight through - just ...
... and got the others to agree to drop in favor of watching the film.
But then I've suffered through My Sister's Keeper, A Thousand Splendid Suns , The Mermaid's Chair, One True Thing, The House on Beartown Road (which I liked, but the theme was depressing), etc. I refused to read The M ...
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz give insight to Egyptian life, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini works well for Afghanistan, and Snow by Orhan Pamuk works well for Turkey.
Finished A thousand splendid suns this morning, and while I mostly liked it, there were also some things that made it a less than exceptional reading experience for me. But the story was strong and it was important and absolutely worth telling. And worth reading too.
... which explains why I still show up occasionally, despite having been subjected to My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Sea Glass by Anita Shreve, One True Thing by Anna Quindlen, The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd, and a few other weepy ...
Here's the Rundown:
Afghanistan
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
Australia
Toad Rage - Morris Gleitzman
Chad
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur - Daoud Hari
...
#20 Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks. A must-read for anyone who was moved by A Thousand Splendid Suns . I would love to see an updated edition.
I loved both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns . I have not read a book that has stayed with me as long as both of these have. What a gifted writer!
#4 Did you read the book before you saw the movie? I am always nervous about seeing movies after reading the book because I feel ...
... Alice - A M Homes
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
The Bad Seed - William March
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore
The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
Every Man for Hi ...
23 A thousand splendid suns Khaled Hosseini
this book was so sad, so distressing and disturbing. I was relived when the ending got better.
... Runner also. I thought it was amazing and powerful. The problem is that it is NOT a pleasant book. I liked A Thousand Splendid Suns better, but on the whole it is not a pleasant book, either, dealing as it does with the horrors of living in Afghanistan, and most especially of ...
... Wife - it was my book choice for the bookclub's 2005 year. Pretty everybody in our bookclub enjoyed reading it.
I gave A Thousand Splendid Suns to a friend recently but haven't read it myself. Somebody said it was even better than The Kite Runner - which I guess I'd give 5* to.
Regard ...
... here , near the end of the thread)
Next stop Afghanistan, where I hope I'll see A thousand splendid suns .
(Physically in Finland where it snows and I should be doing something they call "work".)
...
I just finished The Book Thief, another 5* book for me (and I'm pretty stingy with 5*s -- last year of 64 books, only A Thousand Splendid Suns , Water for Elephants, and The Road). I'm currently waiting for Cloud Atlas from my son-in-law, The Time Traveler's Wife from my daughter, ...
If you liked A thousand Splendid Suns , I'd strongly encourage you to also read Khaled Hosseini's first novel The Kite Runner which was made into a movie. The Kite Runner an engaging story of boyhood friendship and betrayal. Give it a try. The movie is also excellent, but read the book ...
Wow, A thousand Splendid Suns was one of the best books I have read in a long time. It had been sitting on my shelf because the idea of reading about Afghanistan just didn't appeal to me, but once I got started on it, I couldn't put it down.
I also read A boy called IT in about an hour and a ...
... by March 2009.
Technically, I finished three books in the last two weeks that I am going to count anyway. They are:
A Thousand Splendid Suns :
An extremely touching novel that I will write about further in my profile.
Things Fall Apart:
A school assignment, but an interesting book ...
Books read so far this year:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hossieni - wonderful book about the plight of Afgan Muslim women from the invasion through to the take over by the Taliban.
God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - fantastic book about life.
Righteous Men by Sam Bour ...
... Keeper, which someone mentioned above; The Memory Keeper's Daughter, which ditto; One True Thing by Anna Quindlen; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini; The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd; Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen . . . there are others, but I've gotten so depressed ...
...
VI. Around the World.
1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Family Matters by Rohinton ...
... back off and read some Jane Austen for a while, both the classics and the sequels and spinoffs. I still have completed A Thousand Splendid Suns - I just cannot seem to get into the story.
Nine books before the end of February.
... them as normal or even desirable.
Although written after the war in Afghanistan began, both The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns tell stories rooted in pre-Taliban days.
I still have until the end of March to finish my 50...
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
Excellent book. However, it did take me a long time to finish. The characters (it probably helped that they were female--as compared to the main characters in The Kite Runner) felt so real ...
... staff. Then it's just a matter of snapping up the good ones before someone else gets them. (That's how I managed to read A Thousand Splendid Suns in March of last year.)
... Doll in the World (C)
36. Yasmina Khadra-The Attack (D+)
37. Lori Lansens- The Girls (A-)
38. Khaled Hosseini- A Thousand Splendid Suns (A)
39. Judy Blume- Forever (B-)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#67 Purplequeen and #74 momom 248- I second that. A Thousand Suns was a better book than The Kite Runner. For one thing, it was less predictable that The Kite Runner, which made it a better story, and for another, I found the stories about women in Afghanistan to be more insiteful. I really did ...
#67 Purplequeen ==welcome. Hope you enjoy this thread as much as we all do. Kite Runner is great and I thought A Thousand Splendid Suns even better. Those 2 are in my top 10 of all time books as of right now.
I have I Am Legend in my TBR pile--I hope I enjoy as you did.
... group. Two days ago I finished Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and I loved it, so I look forward to reading his A Thousand Splendid Suns . I've just begun The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson: he's not so popular in Italy but after the I am Legend movie his books are now back ...
... portrayal of various characters doesn't quite match the mental picture I've created). I will definitely be getting hold of A Thousand Splendid Suns - I've held off buying it until now to see whether I liked Hosseini's writing style, which I did very much.
Re # 7 - Thanks for the other Elizabe ...
... but ended up having a lot more questions about the lives of the homeless than I had before starting it.
I have started A Thousand Splendid Suns but am not sure if I like it or not. I have jumped out of it to read other books a couple of times now, but am still pursuing completion of it (i.e ...
VI. Around the World
1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini *
3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
4. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry *
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6. Like Water for Chocolate by L ...
... seeing the film and thought it was excellent. I'd recommend that you see the movie as well as read Hosseini's newest book A Thousand Splendid Suns . You'll enjoy reading that book as well.
... best-sellers than I previously thought.
Of the list I've read:
Eat, Pray, Love, which I really fell in love with,
A Thousand Splendid Suns , also really loved,
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, a book club book that I absolutely hated and could not finish,
The Kite Runner,
Water ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini is also a great novel set in Afghanistan and might even be a better comparison to The Swallows of Kabul. I seem to remember that The Kite Runner begins in an earlier time period where as Splendid Suns and Swallows follow daily life in Kabul ...
... Lisa Unger
Best First Novel
Shadow of Death, Patricia Gussin
Switchback, Matthew Klein
A Thousand Suns , Alex Scarrow
18 Seconds, George D. Shuman
Mr. Clarinet, Nick Stone
Best Paperback Original
Skeleton Coast, Clive Cussler ...
-> Completely agree with you on the subject of A Thousand Splendid Suns , I found it just a little bit not quite as good as The Kite Runner. I was just going to ask about the movie, but you answered my question. I will just have to see it now. I was thinking about it: should I see it or I will ...
... false starts on it. I had trouble getting through many of the same books you have on your TBR pile. I finally finished A Thousand Splendid Suns as an audio book, wated Everything is Illuminated via Netflix and sold Reading Like a Writer. The second time I picked up The Time Traveler's W ...
... That helped a lot!
For those of you who liked The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossseini, I'd like to recommend A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author. Although I liked the former the better of the two, most others liked the latter.
In addition, if you've already read The K ...
Fiction: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Non - fiction: Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer
... by M. John Harrison
6) The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
7) How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
8) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
9) Blindness by Jose Saramago
IN PROGRESS
ON DECK
White Noise
Coyote Rising
Coyote Frontier
Sky Coyote
...
I've read some great books in January.
Atonement by Ian McEwan just before I saw the movie
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini which I loved even more than The Kite Runner
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande which is very well ...
... yet. Pretty wrenching. I'm glad they guy was able to sort his life out after what was done to him.
Does everybody like A Thousand Splendid Suns better than The Kite Runner? I thought The Kite Runner was more emotionally complex.
May I humbly offer up my book, War on the Margins, ...
... it intriguing but have not decided if I would recommend it to others. I have also purchased, but not yet started reading, A Thousand Splendid Suns , The Jungle Book not by Upton Sinclair as the touchstone suggests but the one by Rudyard Kipling (and not Disney). I am sampling Jim Cramer's S ...
... Alice - A M Homes
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
The Bad Seed - William March
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
A Spell of Winter - Helen Dunmore
The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
Every Man for Hi ...
... :
#5 The Terror by Dan Simmons
#4 Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
#3 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
#2 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#1 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
For the briefest of snippets regarding WHY I chose these five, see:
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... Keeper's Daughter and The Kite Runner. I have Eat, Pray, Love and am looking forward to reating it, as well as A Thousand Splendid Suns . At least all of the books were a notch up from the Danielle Steels that seemed to dominate the lists for years.
... not having to trek out in the cold to get it(especially today... 13 degrees F and strong north wind).
I just finished A thousand splendid suns last week or so. Pretty dark but I couldn't put it down. I was just going to read the free sample, but darn it, the sample ended in the middle of ...
I just purchased A thousand splendid suns and have to go read now. I am liking this Kindle, so many books, so little time.
#77 citygirl - I'm back!
I suggest A Thousand Spendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini to you. It was an amazing book!
Since you have alot of books about Great Britain and you like mysteries, I'd suggest anything from The William Monk Series by Anne Perry. They're not books that you have ...
KimberlyL - After taking a look at your library, I think you should read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The book was amazing!
A Thousand Splendid Suns is very good. Hosseini has a way of writing which portrays emotion and events quite vividly. I would not call it wonderful literature, but definitely a good read. I liked the parallel between changes in the political regime and changes in the home.
The Kite Runner was good although maybe not as good as the second book A thousand Splendid Suns Maybe I was thinking it up, since I had heard such good things about it and with the movie reviews coming out whilst I was reading it....hmmm. But was still very readable, I would recommend it.
nex ...
... by Kim Edwards was good but not great - she shows some promise but the plot and characterization was uneven, IMHO.
A Thousand Splendid Suns also by Hosseini was good, but not the great book I was expecting.
I agree that being on LT has widened by reading horizons.
suite francaise, a thousand splendid suns , the glass castle
The Ministry of Special Cases, The Glass Castle, Suite Francaise, A Thousand Splendid Suns
... finally get round to rereading it I might not be so impressed.
I also see that you've recently read (and, I hope, enjoyed) A Thousand Splendid Suns . A few more along these lines (and I'm assuming you've read The Kite Runner, which is also brilliant) are The Hungry Tide, The Alchemy of Desi ...
... the year. HP7 was only there for 5 weeks. The Secret was on for 14 weeks. Eat, Pray, Love was also onfor 5 weeks. A Thousand Splendid Suns was on 4 weeks. #5 above, The Memory Keepers Daughter never made the top of the besteller list. Similarly for # 7, 8, & 9. "You Staying Young" ...
... 936 copies, 21 reviews, 2172nd.
3. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2,324 copies, 88 reviews, 682nd.
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 3,297 copies, 145 reviews, 380th.
5. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, 3,718 copies, 142 reviews, 242nd ...
... me - there are lots of books "everyone" is reading that I need to read to see what all the fuss is about! Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , to start with. Water for Elephants - my sister gave that to me and I keep forgetting about it - hmmm... where did I put it?
And, OH YEAH, ...
... by Beryl Bainbridge. A fictional account of the sinking of the Titanic. Really enjoying it but still mourning A Thousand Splendid Suns a bit.
1. The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... The Guardian by Dee Henderson. The first of her books to read and really enjoyed them. Also have Kite Runner and Splendid Suns on my list, just got them from my husband for Christmas
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini
2. The Ministry of Special Cases, by Nathan Englander
I finished
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
last night. What a wonderful book.
Miriam is forced into an arranged marriage by her father and his several wives. Miriam is beaten by her husband, Rasheed. When Lailia, fifteen, who lived in the neighborhood has a rocket ...
...
11 High School Musical 2: Book of the Film;
12 4 Ingredients, by Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham;
13 A Thousand Splendid Suns , by Khaled Hosseini;
14 Those Faraday Girls, by Monica McInerney;
15 Jamie at Home, by Jamie Oliver.
... Most of find LibraryThing very addictive and I'm sure you will, too.
I agree that The Kite Runner was incredible! A Thousand Spendid Suns is equally amazing. I get alot of suggestions from reading others posts here and other groups.
Have fun!
... Forgetting – Stefan Merrill Block
2. World Without End –Ken Follett
3. Heartsick– Chelsea Cain
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
5. Lottery – Patricia Wood
6. Still Summer – Jacqueline Mitchard
7. Lord John and the Brotherhood of ...
... time for myself now and then.
Books I've read this year:
1 - The Innocent Man by John Grisham (Hated it!)
2 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3 - The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
4 - Paradise Lost by JA Jance
5 - Dead Wrong by ...
... my catalog with 4.5-5 stars tagged "finished in 2007":
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (duh!)
The Book Thief
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Twilight (Stephanie Meyer, touchstone not working)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Velvet Elvis
Ptolemy's Gate
Watership Down
A Clash of King ...
First one down, 63 to go!
I finished A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini last night (which my boyfriend gave me for Christmas) and really enjoyed it! My sister-in-law raved about it over the holidays and I wasn't disappointed. The characters were just devastating. Wonderful!
I ...
7. Reading Globally (non-AUS, US, UK, CAN)
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Suite francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Sozenitsyn ...
... sh...
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (****)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (****)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (***)
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (****)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie (deferre ...
... 207. This is a rough compiliation. Again, book names were grabbed regardless of context.
The winner with 17 mentions is A Thousand Splendid Suns .
The remaining top ten are:
The Road
The Thirteenth Tale TIED with 13 mentions
Half of a Yellow Sun with 11 mentions
The Book Th ...
... else says "The Best Book" was awful, the book will be counted twice.
P.S. These seem to be the most mentioned so far:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Cloud Atlas
Half of a Yellow Sun
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Nineteen Minutes
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Book Thie ...
Oh wow this is tough, but I think a tie between The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns .
... repeatedly (which I did somewhere way back in the thread, can't find it now. . .) I'm going to predict The Book Thief, A Thousand Splendid Suns and Half of a Yellow Sun end up in the top five (just from skimming the posts).
... I avoid reading what I assume will be depressing stories, but this was a very rewarding read. I'm definitely going to read A Thousand Splendid Suns as well.
Now I must contemplate my vast TBR list. Some upcoming books might include:
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes (not from the ...
Thanks, A Thousand Splendid Suns is already on my list! Better? Wow!
If you liked the Kite Runner then be sure to check out A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini. It is just as good...if not better than...Kite Runner. Another beautifully told tale of Afghanistan.
RE: Message 1:
I read The Kite Runner as well and thoroughly enjoyed it. I received A Thousand Spendid Suns for Christmas (along with 20 other books - I got spoiled this year!) and look forward to reading it. I am excited about the movie - even though in my experience, the movies can't ...
... I didn't mention. ;)
In no particular order.
Fiction:
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Zoli by Colum McCann
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Non-Ficti ...
... of the afterlife that questions what is out there, deals with memory, loss and the effect each person can have on another
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini - powerful
World Without End by Follett - middle ages, historical fiction at its best
World War Z by Max Brooks - ...
... I jotted down as recommended I would have gotten around to in any case, including The Gathering by Anne Enright and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. But I got curious about Anthony Trollope after seeing him on the lists of so many readers with whom I share ...
... what my husband bought me:
Coming Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
Kite Runner
A thousand Splendid Suns
the Pretender by Dee Henderson
Rhett Butler's People
A Path Between Two Seas by David McCullough
Ladies Detective Agency two in the ...
... I was given The Road by Cormac McCarthy for Christmas, so I have to revise my list:
1. Water for Elephants
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. The Road
4. His Dark Materials
... reads (out of 89) for 2007:
1) Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
2) The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
3) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
and it's a toss up which of these books I'd put in as 5)
You're Not ...
... ...
A Christmas Carol# by Charles Dickens (****)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius# by Dave Eggers (****)
A Thousand Splendid Suns # by Khaled Hosseini (***)
Everything is Illuminated# by Jonathan Safran Foer (****)
Like Water for Chocolate# by Laura Esquivel (****)
The S ...
... The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
2) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3) Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
4) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Thank you all for making this a great year of reading - and to the ...
... books during the fourth quarter. Only three ranked higher than four stars, so I will list those here, in order:
1) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2) The Muse Asylum by David Czuchlewski
3) The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
I’m taking the 888 Challenge : "Read 8 books each in 8 different categories in 2008."
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Edited to move remainder of post to LT's 888 Challenge group .
... Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
34. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K.Rowling
35. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Housini
36. Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
37. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
Good Luck to me and everyone on ...
I just finished The Kite Runner by Khalad Hosseini. It was awesome! I read A Thousand Splendid Suns first and I enjoyed it. I bought The Kite Runner thinking I would enjoy it too, eventually. But, if I would've read The Kite Runner first, I would've tore into A Thousand Splendid Suns ...
... Kam
From December Early Reviewers:
Saraminda by Jose Sarney
While Christmas shopping for others:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The Wo ...
... started The Book Thief and I'm also reading Blink. On the pile is Atonement before the movie comes out, The Master, A Thousand Splendid Suns and How Proust Can Change Your Life. I'm also reading Silas Marner aloud to my partner.
... Accidental by Ali Smith
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
And a few honorable mentions:
The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Dark Angels by Karleen Koen
The Boleyn ...
... cCarthy
2. Restless by William Boyd
3. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
4. The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I've loved looking through these lists and getting recommendations. Not that I should buy any more books - my NY Resolution ...
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley
The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
Landsman by Peter Charles Melman
The Abstinence Teacher by ...
Going over the lists so far, I see some repeat recommendations:
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love by Lisa See
Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Water ...
Going over the lists so far, I see some repeat recommendations:
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love by Lisa See
Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Water ...
... Pullman (1995) - because it was fun
3. Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (1927) - which has me wondering about Huckabee
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007)
5. Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace (2007) - I'm seem a ...
... winners for fiction in 2007. Envelope please!!!
(No particular order)
The Brothers K by David James Duncan (2)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (3)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (3)
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly (3)
Out Stealing Horses by ...
... this thread, I think it's only fair that I list my favorites of the year:
1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Honorable Mentions:
4. The Spartan by Caroline Dale Snedeker -- This was Ms Sn ...
... really made me go back and think about the events of the book again.
43) Hounded to Death by Laurien Berenson
44) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My favorite book of 2007, I think.
45) Death by Pantyhose by Laura Levine
46) The PMS Murders by Laura Levine
Lig ...
... just one, I've visited some remarkable places this year!
1. Inside a Burma prison - The Lizard Cage
2. Afghanistan - A Thousand Splendid Suns
3. The US dust bowl and California in the 1930s - Grapes of Wrath and The Worst Hard Time (yes, I live in the US, but this was a different ...
... Emma Bull
88. The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
89. Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur
90. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
... Nemirovsky (Q1)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Q1)
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Q4)
A Thousand Splendid Suns , by Khaled Hosseini (Q4)
I had one re-read which ranked right up there with these five: To Kill a Mockingbird.
Just three truly stand out this quarter:
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jumpa Lahiri
A Thousand Splendid Suns , by Khaled Hosseini
True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
... of Survival
by Stanley N. Alpert
The regulators by Richard Bachman
Mortal friends by James Carroll
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Sorceress of the Trade Winds by Claude R. Isnard
Babyville by Jane Green
The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli ...
Mine are:
Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Shadow of the Wind Carlos Zafon
Sammy's Hill Kristin Gore
With probably A Thousand Splendid Suns as the best with Nineteen Minutes a close second.
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Excellent book! I even liked it better than Kite Runner.
Now I am going to reread David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day. Very funny!
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I think I liked A Thousand Splendid Suns better than The Kite Runner! I found it very difficult to put down.
Now I am going to reread Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. It ...
I thoroughly enjoyed A Thousand Splendid Suns . A surprise close second for me was Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Received from Amazon today: HeartSick by Chelsea Cain and
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
From the public library:
The Wrong Man by John Katzenbach
... left Biafra/Nigeria with Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun
I'm currently headed North East with A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
And I plan to travel back in time today and begin The Known World by Edward P. Jones
GGoodwin, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is the book and it is wonderful. In my top 10 books of all time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
I too am very disappointed w/ reviews on The Almost Moon. It's also in my TBR pile and seems to be getting poor reviews all ...
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Ooo. That took a long time! Just finished rereading GofF today. Couldn't put it down! Now I will move onto A Thousand Splendid Suns . I just got it yesterday from the library and it has to be back in two week. Unfortunately these will be a very busy two weeks for me. Conferences ...
... finished rereading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It still gets me every time!
Tonight or tomorrow I will start A Thousand Splendid Suns .
... Who Loved Me. This is one of my favorite Bridgerton books. I needed some light reading as I have been listening to A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It isn't a romance but I needed something different for a change. The writing is wonderful but the story has brought me ...
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and found it a little too light and a little too Hollywood for me. Quite enjoyed it, nonetheless.
About to start The Broken Shore by Peter Temple. I'm not normally a reader of crime or mystery but this won the Golden Dagger 2007.
... you scratch the surface.
You make a good point about the divide between the sympathetic and unsympathetic characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns . I'm not sure the divide is quite as stark as you suggest, though. Mariam, the main protagonist, does behave quite harshly toward another innocent ...
Both A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck seek to bring the personal story behind a large scale human tragedy. Both seek to inform us about the real impact of those tragedies on the people involved and so raise our awareness and form our opinions ...
... I simply couldn't get through the book. I'm now in the Caribbean with Wide Sargasso Sea.
Amanda, I think you'll love A Thousand Splendid Suns . I finished it recently myself. Wonderful.
I've started A Thousand Splendid Suns which I've been looking forward to for ages.
I'm in Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
I started listening to A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kahled Hosseini today. It is good and the narrator is very good. I know it isn't a romance but every once in a while I need a break.
I am awaiting Eloisa James new book An Affair before Christmas. The relase date is tomorrow 11/13. At ...
... by Anne Enright (Ireland)***
52. Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany (AUstralia)
53. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
54. The Broken Shore by Peter Temple WINNER OF THE DUNCAN LAWRIE DAGGER AWARD 2007*
Finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this weekend, an enjoyable, quick read. It's odd that after reading such a dark story my main impression is that it was fun. On the other hand, it seemed a touch light - or maybe I'm just being snobby.
Next will be Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis for a LT ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns was a surprise to me. I enjoyed it much and appreciated the empathy of the male author for the female characters. (I started reading it because it was popular, very requested, I'm a librarian, do Readers' Advisory..)
I spent the last few days in Afghanistan with A Thousand Splendid Suns . Fantastic book, but time now to visit the Canadian wilderness c. 1860 in The Tenderness of Wolves. Somebody's been murdered in his cabin ...
I zipped through A Thousand Splendid Suns , getting up well before the rest of my family today in order to read the last 50 pages or so. This was a superb book; it will be "the book to beat" this month.
I started The Tenderness of Wolves tonight.
I zipped through A Thousand Splendid Suns , getting up well before the rest of my family today in order to read the last 50 pages or so. This was a superb book; it will be "the book to beat" this month.
I started The Tenderness of Wolves tonight.
NOVEMBER
59. A Thousand Splendid Suns - review . This was so fantastic, on Nov. 3 I'm already predicting it will be my favorite book of the month!
60. The Tenderness of Wolves - dchaikin in What Are You Reading Now? : Share a line or passage from your current book, part 2 (Nov 2, 2007, 9:50pm)
#85 - I enjoyed that.
I was looking for something from Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns , and found this.
"In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too has sorrows, ...
I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns , and finding it lives up to all the good things I've heard about it.
I've just started A Thousand Splendid Suns , and am finding it just as good as everyone said it would be.
In the middle of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kaled Hosseini.
Hi. Yes, I did read A Thousand Splendid Suns . As my review suggests, it took "a dozen meandering moons" for the story to get rolling. I don't think it was quite as potent as the author's earlier work.
I've fast-tracked a political tome in my lineup. A Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein (no, it ...
... by now. I only have about 100 pages left which shouldn't take too long.
I'm looking forward to starting my next book, A Thousand Splendid Suns . I just picked it up from the library on Friday and it's calling my name ...
On Friday I went to the library to pick up A Thousand Splendid Suns , which I've been eagerly anticipating. Much to my delight, I found the library was having a book sale, $2/bag, and I bagged: The Boleyn Inheritance, Girl, Interrupted, The Stories of Eva Luna, Dreams from my Father, and ...
My book club order came in yesterday.
The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns and
To Kill a Mockingbird (read it in high school but never had a copy)
From the early reviewers Hedge Hunters
Tomorrow I will be going to the sale at the library. My TBR pile is growing huge. Goo ...
... Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder. It took some time, but fun stuff. It got me excited about philosophy.
Next will be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
edited to fix a missing word I just noticed.
... memoir Wilder wrote with the books in the "Little House" series.
And I just gobbled up Khaled Hosseini's latest, A Thousand Splendid Suns . The obvious comparison would be with his first novel, The Kite Runner, but it would be interesting to come up with a less obvious comparison. I ...
... I should ask what were the worse (so I can avoid them.. lol).
My favorite reads for this year were Fall on Your Knees, A Thousand Splendid Suns , The Red Tent, I Know This Much is True,.. and I'll have to include The Time Travelers Wife :)
A Thousand Splendid Suns was a great book. It thoroughly captivated me. Also up there w/ that one is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.
My current reads:
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Mother Aegypt and Other Stories by Kage Baker
I am leaving Afghanistan where I saw the Thousand Splendid Suns and think that I might head back over to Iran with Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi while I continue to wait for Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
... for my "trip" to Uganda but am tired of NYC so I'm going to go to Kabul, Afganiston for a little while with Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns
... repeatedly (this is a quick tally, I'm sure I've missed some):
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
A Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly
The Thirteenth Tale, ...
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The above in no particular order.
6. Duizend schitterende zonnen - Khaled Hosseini 392 p.
The dutch version of 'A thousand splendid suns'.
... (random order)
Animal Vegetable Miracle Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hoseeni
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
The Old Wives Tale Arnold Bennett
I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this weekend. My feelings about it are a bit mixed--but I think it's one of those books that does that to everyone. Beautifully written, and I never hit a slump while reading it; it really grabbed my attention. The structure--moving from one woman's story to ...
I devoured A Thousand Splendid Suns - it was such an amazing story.
Now, I am starting The Human Stain by Philip Roth.
59) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ( review )
>97:calvarez
Totally agree with you that Hosseini's first novel is better than his second A Thousand Splendid Suns . I somehow felt that he had been propelled to writing a novel about Afghanistani women as if it was something he should do to counterbalance his first book.
... a Yellow Sun by Chimamnada Ngozi Adichie
3. Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
4. In the Fall by Jeffery Lent
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni
This evening, I finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns . I found it to be as powerful, heart-wrenching and well-written as everyone has been saying, although I must say that I think The Kite Runner is still a more powerful novel than A Thousand Splendid Suns ...although I think that puts me ...
Right now I'm in Afghanistan mode. It started when a reading of A Thousand Splendid Suns for one of my reading groups accidentally coincided with listening to The Bookseller of Kabul on my iPod. I'm hooked. I'm just about finished with The Swallows of Kabul and up next is The Rise of the Tali ...
Top five:
1. Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
2. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini--not quite done
4. Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
5. The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
I'm somewhere past the middle of:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
... Moore
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan , Lisa See
The Whistling Season , Ivan Doig
A Thousand Splendid Suns The Historian , Elizabeth Kostova
Mountain Betty , Hannah Mccouch
Wives and daughters , ...
... I want to see it as a movie just because some of the stuff in the book I would never want visualized. Personally I like A Thousand Splendid Suns more.
#196 - Hee hee, sophie, you can blame Library Thing for your TBR pile. Mine's been steadily growing for the past year. Everytime I get ...
... photography. I believe the NY Times recently had a feature about this book as well.
I also recently picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns , but am only 3 chapters in!
54. Arden of Faversham (reread)
55. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Just started listening to the audiobook of A Thousand Splendid Suns . Also reading Arden of Faversham for class prep.
... the love story part - not terribly convincing. I have Ironside at home, but it is not next on the list. I am working on A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and about to start The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. I saw him speak at ALA this ...
... Lisa See's stunning novel.
Fiction (there's a tie there somewhere, I can't imagine dropping one of these though):
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Le ...
... are several books that fit this thread for me, but the two that stand out are The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
>131:dihiba:
agree with your comments about On Chesil Beach and A Thousand Splendid Suns . Great spare prose in the former and my disappointment, too, at the latter. Ian McEwan is a great craftsman. Personally, I thought Hosseini might have been under pressure to write something that ...
I've already finished The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis, which I enjoyed, and I still have to read A Thousand Splendid Suns for my other real-life club.
... it's refreshing to read an author who takes a serious emotional issue without emoting excessively about it.
Finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Kholed Hosseini a couple of days ago - it was good, but I was disappointed somewhat, I thought it would be better.
I rarely have such a clear choice as for August, but it has to be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
... 14 is not fat either - Meg Cabot
53. Shattered dreams: my life as a polygamist's wife - Irene Spencer
54. A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini (book club)
55. Inside the Crips: life inside L.A.'s most notorious gang - Colton Simpson
56. Getting stoned with ...
... by Margaret Cesair-Thompson, which I am reviewing for Book Browse. I'll also be starting a new audiobook, most likely A Thousand Splendid Suns . Plus for my classes, I'll be rereading Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew.
... day. I hadn't heard of him until I got on to this site - don't think he's all that well known in Canada.
Am still reading A Thousand Splendid Suns - about half way through - it just hasn't grabbed me as I thought it would... but it's good, just so far, not great.
... finished A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson last night - a fun read and informative about the Appalachians.
Started A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini this afternoon - so far, so good.
Still working through The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver - enjoying it but ...
squeakychu--back to your comment on A Thousand Splendid Suns I felt the same way you did--loved the book and was brought to tears reading Jalil's letter as well. Such a sad book. I had a very hard time getting a good book after reading that one. I hpe Hosseini writes more novels.
Ik ben net klaar met het lezen van Duizend schitterende zonnen van Khaled Hosseini. Prachtig boek!! En nu net begonnen in The Historian van Elizabeth Kostova. Ben benieuwd.
... and it was (I've seen the movie).
I am going back to The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver today, but must read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini very soon, as it must be returned to a school library before school starts.
... in it that I really wanted to quote, but now I can't find it. I will keep looking and edit this later.
Today I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (372 pages). It was the first book that I remember ever making me cry. I just couldn't put it down.
I have been trying ...
I just cried this morning at A Thousand Splendid Suns . I don't remember ever crying like that at a book.
August
36. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
37. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
~~ "Venus and Adonis" by William Shakespeare
38. Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
39. The Spartan by Caroline Dale Snedeker
... gets in the way of reading. ;)
Book #22
Title: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C.S. Lewis
Book #23
Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Book #24
Title: For One More Day
Author: Mitch Albom
Book #25
Title: Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Euge ...
Have started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns but am not sure it will enthrall me like Khaled Hosseini's first book.
... Dubus
The March by E.L. Doctorow
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I also checked out A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I just started A Thousand Splendid Suns a couple days ago but have been so busy I haven't had time to sit down and enjoy it. I had trouble with The Kite Runner (I know, I know.... I'm the only one!) but I'm cautiously optimistic about this one!
... splashing of 'hilarious' and 'hugely entertaining' across the covers and then hardly raise a smile.
Have now started A Thousand Splendid Suns to see if it can hold me like Hosseini's first novel.
#135-Ladybookworm I too loved Kite Runner and I loved A Thousand Splendid Suns more which I didn't think I could do. Hosseini's writing and storytelling is just amazing. Probably they are near the top of my all time favorite novels. I hope you also enjoy A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I ...
... to the OP:
Just finished The Kite Runner. Wow. Just...wow. What a powerful, wonderful book. I must get my hands on A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I'm now reading The HIstorian by Elizabeth Kostova.
... because it's on hold at the library and I haven't gotten it yet. Meanwhile I read the very amazing and highly recommended A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. If anyone's interested, my review of it is ...
... premise, that the quilter makes a quilt for someone, but she doesn't know them yet, or why she made the quilt.
12. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - by the author of The Kite Runner but more about the women in Afghanistan. Very powerful
13.All Souls a Family Story ...
... Attract by Hailey North. Sorry, wrong touchstone. I enjoyed it.
Also, in non-romance news, Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns is wonderful, a must-read for anyone who enjoyed The Kite Runner.
In no certain order
I am Charlotte Simmons
The Kite Runner
A Splendid Thousand Suns
My Sisters Keeper
The Mermaid Chair
De mullah wees naar de sluier en Nargis vlijde die op Mariams hoofd voordat ze zelf ging zitten.
Duizend schitterende zonnen by Khaled Hosseini
Ben nu bezig met Duizend schitterende zonnen van Khaled Hosseini. En ben ook al anderhalf jaar bezig met Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur vanaf 1880 in 60 lange verhalen door Joost Zwagerman, maar daar doe ik elke keer een stukje van. Is namelijk best een heel dik boek, met hele dunne ...
... with serious issues while still being funny and sweet. I'd highly recommend it!
Also on my plate is Khaled Hossenis's A Thousand Splendid Suns which I'm really impressed with so far and next up is the highly recommended Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
(Touchstones only quasi-working, ...
... with serious issues while still being funny and sweet. I'd highly recommend it!
Also on my plate is Khaled Hossenis's A Thousand Splendid Suns which I'm really impressed with so far and next up is the highly recommended Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
(Touchstones only quasi-working, ...
My Sister's Keeper and Nineteen Minutes both made me cry as well as A Thousand Splendid Suns got me choked up but not actually crying.
... angry at the people who I loaned them to.
* I can tell you right now which of my books have been borrowed, from memory: A Thousand Splendid Suns (my mom), Faeiries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer (my friend), Player Piano, (my other friend's boyfriend).
* In the fourth or fifth grade, I ...
The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani...really liked Caspian Rain and The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns so thought I would give this one a try.
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and am in the delicious position of deciding what to read next.
It's between Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson and The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.
... but are not too much of an intellectual challenge. I recommend:
Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan ...
... on LT that today is not only Harry Potter's birthday, but also JK Rowling's!
I am now picking up where I left off with A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I was almost 1/2 way through when I "inherited" HP7 from my 14-year-old son, who had just finished it.
For those of you ...
No contest: A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I'm in Afghanistan, reading A Thousand Splendid Suns . It is very enjoyable, but unbelievably sad.I'm also exploring reworked fairy tales in Good Bones.
I am currently reading James Patterson's latest, The Quickie. Next up I plan on reading A Thousand Splendid Suns .
... Day by David Sedaris
Everyman by Philip Roth
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill
and
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
When my 14-year old finishes Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (he's very close to the end) he'll pass it on to me.
...
Neat topic. Let's see. I've physically touched the following tomes today in my house:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (which I'm currently reading); Negotiating With the Dead by Margaret Atwood; Kalooki Nights, by Howard Jacobson; The Jerilderie Letter, by Ned ...
8. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
10. Why Men Marry Bitches by Sherry Argov
#21 rubberstamper--A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner are both wonderful reads--I highly recommend them both. And no there are lots of folks who haven't read either one. Kite Runner is coming out in either Nov. or Dec. this year as a major motion picture--I will be interested to ...
Right now its a tie between A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Love both of them so much.
A Thousand Splendid Suns was wonderful. Although I loved Kite Runner I loved Splendid Suns more. If I were you, I would move it up on your TBR list!
... for the most part I hang on to my books as well. My co worker wants to borrow my auther signed, advanced reader copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns --I told her she had to guard w/her life under penalty of death if I didn't get it back (LOL).
... 50 book challenge. ETA: raised the bar in September to 75 books by July 1, 2008.
Since July 1st I've read:
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns and
2. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
both 5 star books;
and
3. The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timot ...
My mom is the same way. She wants to borrow my copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns when I'm done reading it, and she's apparently already promised to loan it to three other relatives - all famously slow readers *clutches book to chest, whimpering*
... Thomas on my lunch break (and was surprised by how much I liked it - seriously, a really good read) and am FINALLY reading A Thousand Splendid Suns . I just read 62 pages in 40 minutes, and I'm relieved nobody walked by my cubicle! It's amazing so far. I want to rush home just so I can read the ...
...
Well, it looks like it's going to be an insane/busy week, but my reading list is as follows:
* Finish Odd Thomas
* A Thousand Splendid Suns
* Anansi Boys
* Every other book in my freaking collection
I've reluctantly left Afghanistan and Pakistan, finishing up A Thousand Splendid Suns and moved back to London and the English countryside with the Dashwoods in Sense and Sensibility.
I'm also decomposing in a casket in Grave Matters: a journey through the modern funeral industry to a ...
I think one reason I liked The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns is the fact that I was satisfied with the ending. Such emotional books and the endings were satisfactory.
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns - wonderful read. I'm now faithfully returning to Sense and Sensibility. Also reading Grave Matters: a journey through the modern funeral industry to a natural way of burial, so far a very graphic account of what embalming entails. Yikes.
Just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns which I enjoyed a lot, but didn't bowl me over like The Kite Runner... Tomorrow I start into Arthur and George, as it were!
I'm on holidays this week and have so far read:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
How Will I Know by Sheila O'Flanagan
If Looks Could Kill by Kate White
and, next on my list to read is:
Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen
I'm on holidays this week and have so far read:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
How Will I Know by Sheila O'Flanagan
If Looks Could Kill by Kate White
and, next on my list to read is:
Deadly Appearances by Gail Bowen
I'll be finishing A Thousand Splendid Suns tonight; next up: The Lizard Cage and The Assault on Reason. And still have Sense and Sensibility to finish.
... A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon. guilty pleasure; need a break from the classics. I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns (in two days). An easy, emotional read -- I did tear up; which is rare for me.
... for patriotism -- I have many babies expected to be 'born on the fourth of July' which should give me enough time to finish A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I am enjoying it, but it seems a little storybookish and not as emotionally devastating as it should be. I think I will finally finish the Outl ...
... Transmetropolitan.
If I still have any hours left in the day (which I might, because I read freakishly fast), I'll start A Thousand Splendid Suns .
So that shall be my day: sitting on the roof, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, and reading.
In Afghanistan - I've just moved to Kabul from Herat in A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I'm just beginning A Thousand Splendid Suns 5 chapters in. And for my nonfiction, I'll start The Assault on Reason tonight.
I was so excited to start Suns today, I even dreamed about it last night.
It was a red letter library day for me:
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Assault on Reason
Grave Matters
The Lizard Cage
Waking the Tiger
The beginners guide to forgiveness (audio)
I have a couple of things to finish up tonight before I gleefully dig into this new pile.
... latter part of the book is supported by seemingly arcane details in the early chapters. All in all, I'm glad I read it. A Thousand Splendid Suns was next--a quick and wonderful read. I did, however, like Kite Runner more. Now, I'm thinking about reading A Million Little Pieces before ...
#52 momom248 - I'm glad you enjoyed A Thousand Splendid Suns . I agree with you that it was difficult to find something to read after finishing. The emotion from both Hosseini books certainly stayed with me. I hope we see more from Khaled Hosseini.
# 22 & 23--teelgee & georgiadawn, I absolutely loved A Thousand Splendid Suns probably one of the best books I have ever read. ALso loved The Kite Runner. I had a hard time finding a good read after Suns. I admire your reading Sense & Sensibility--its in my TBR pile but haven't tried to ...
... of the 'real' Lady Glyde.
I think I will take a break from the classics and the 1001 list and go ahead and start A Thousand Splendid Suns to see what all the fuss is about, especially as I did really enjoy The Kite Runner.
... quarter (reviewed here ).
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs.
teelgee - A Thousand Splendid Suns is amazing! Hurry to the library and pick it up!
... by Barbara Kingsolver. I am itching to get to the library to pick up a few things that are waiting for me, especially A Thousand Splendid Suns , but will restrain myself until I get at least half way through Austen.
I think it might be A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
bunagsbooks, I felt the same way about A Thousand Splendid Suns --it was probably one of the best books I have ever read. I also loved The Kite Runner as well. Now I'm finding it very hard to get into a new book.
... books are from the second quarter, because I was in my teaching residency and too busy to read the first quarter.
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2)
2. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2)
3. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (2)
4. L ...
#60 bunagsbooks - I agree that A Thousand Splendid Suns was amazing! I know that I will be reading it again.
OK, I know I already posted this week, but I already finished A Thousand Splendid Suns . It was FANTASTIC. You MUST, MUST read this book.
As a follow up, I'm reading a nonfiction book called West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamin Ansary. So far (just the prologue), so good. I'm ...
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns , I might even say I liked it more than The Kite Runner. It was amazing and look forward to anything else that Khaled Hosseini decides to write.
JF: A Thousand Splendid Suns
L2: Airborn
CR: Prom Night from Hell
LF2: Chocolat and something off of my reading list for my online class
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 384 pages
40. Alice Cooper, Golf Monster by Alice Cooper, 253 pages
... paperback though). I'm a new teacher and trying to build up my classroom library with good YA lit.
Now, I am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I loved The Kite Runner so I'm very excited about this.
I also just started re-reading Harry Potter and The Sorcerer' ...
1. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
3. Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
4. Same Kind of Different as Me by Denver Moore
5. ?
... to Punctuation by Lynn Truss
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The tenth justice by Brad Meltzer
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer
I am reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I haven't read The Kite Runner, but other members of my book club rated it highly so I am hoping for a good read. I've just finished Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which I thought was beautifully written.
... by Mark Zusak
2. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
3. You Can’t Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
... Liza Dalby (1)
3. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (2)
4. You Can’t Catch Death by Ianthe Brautigan (2)
5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2)
#13 teelgee - I am going to purchase a copy of A Thousand Splendid Suns today. The waiting list (even with ILL) at the library was very long. I didn't want to wait.
I'm rereading The Gunslinger by Stephen King and I'll begin A Thousand Splendid Suns as soon as I can get to the book ...
... medicalization of childbirth in the 19th and 20th centuries, so I'm finding some good stuff in it.
Still waiting for A Thousand Splendid Suns to come in at the library. They're taking their sweet time processing it. Might have to go buy it this weekend!
Also still reading Silent Thun ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini...I really want to come home and read where I left off in the car. It is soooo good.
... wine...while there finished The Kite Runner and had the pleasure to hear Khaled Hosseini speak...am halfway through A Thousand Splendid Suns and love it also. Met a new author Melodie Bowsher while there and read her book on the plane home...nice crossover book...older teen could ...
> 32: kiwiflowa, I agree with teelgee and momom248, GREAT gift choices! I've read and enjoyed two of them; hope to get to A Thousand Splendid Suns soonish.
kiwiflowa, great choices for your sister. I just finishedA Thousand Splendid Suns --it was amazing probably one of the best I've ever read. Also loved Memory Keeper's Daughter and I have purchased Half a Yellow Sun but have not it yet.
My recent purchases were Brothers by Da Chen and ...
For my sisters birthday I gave her:
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She has a young family so she has been reading books from the library and not buying any books so she hasn't read ...
22. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
So far, everyone who read this book has loved. Even professional reviewers are calling it superior to The Kite Runner. I liked this book a lot, but IMHO it never equalled The Kite Runner. A Thousand Splendid Suns is the story of two ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns , as soon as it comes into the library; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life, ditto.
Devil in the Details is one in my pile I'm looking forward to. as is The Good Rain : across time and terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan - he wrote The ...
#18 cdyankeefan--A Thousand Splendid Suns is wonderful. I hope you enjoy it.
#120 & 121--I loved Kite Runner as well and just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns and it was amazing. I liked it better than Kite Runner if that is possible. Enjoy it when you get to read it.
bettyjo #120: Yes, Kite Runner is stellar, isn't it? I'm really looking forward to his new book, A Thousand Splendid Suns ; have it on hold at the library and had to restrain myself from buying it the other day. Although, I can think of many worse ways to spend my money!
JF: The Pursuit of Happyness
CR: Stardust by Neil Gaiman
OA: Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
LF2: AThousand Splendid Suns
...
Will keep a list from 31/05/07 til the end of the year and see how much I do (have read 36 to this point in the year)
1. THE THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini (31/05/07) ****
2. THE THIRTEENTH TALE by Diane Setterfield (02/06/07). ****
3. THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy (05/06/07) * ...
I snagged A Thousand Splendid Suns as well, but I haven't read it yet because I've yet to read The Kite Runner. I realize I don't have to read one to read the other, I just thought it would be polite to read them in the order they were written. I'm glad to hear all the hype is to be believed, ...
We receive some great ARC's. I read Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns , and that was shockingly amazing. I also have Peony in Love by Lisa See, which I have yet to read but have heard wonderful things.
As far as debut not yet heard of authors, we recieved a copy of Linda Olsson's Ast ...
... 6 books and got into overload. I stopped them all for the interim, and am working on simply enjoying my one current read - A Thousand Splendid Suns . Ah!!!! I feel better already...
#5 Squeakychu I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns myself and I loved it. Probably in my all time top 10 books. This one will stay with me for a while. I loved his other book The Kite Runner as well and just found out it will be a major motion picture released the end of 2007.
Just ...
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George McDonald
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Chariots of Fire
Arrow to The Sun and Musicians of the Sun by Gerald McDermott
... Paul Metro Area) to see the author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, who recently published his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns which I haven't had the chance to read yet.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
This was supposed to be a Father's Day gift (and a good one!)... until I picked up the Costco bag that was hiding it. Oops.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is interesting so far. I've finished about 1/4 of it.
The reviewers say it's better than A Kite Runner. For me, I don't think so. Hosseini's newest book is easy to read, and the topic is interesting, but The Kite Runner had themes that engaged me ...
#2 Will be interested in your opinion of A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I haven't checked in for a while - been too busy in London and then Los Angeles (c.1939). Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier - NOT RECOMMENDED; and Ask the Dust by John Fante - recommended.
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Well, I just moved to Kabul, Afghanistan. On the other thread I was living in Herat. I'm still reading A Thousand Splendid Suns ! :-)
... wind-up one with radio and port to use for cell phone) and got as well The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni. I can't pass up books that I have on my "to buy" list that are half price. I heard Gladwell speak and he was very ...
... cestovatela! I just got there yesterday (and am staying in the city of Herat) with Khaled Hosseni's new book, A Thousand Splendid Suns .
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and it is literally AMAZING. Definitely the top book of 2007 thus far. It brings you up, and brings you down all in one page. I have not read many books that are able to do that to you.
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I can tell you right now, mrstreme, I'm going to love A Thousand Splendid Suns . I was a big fan of Hosseini's writing from the very beginning when his first book was brand new, and no one had ever heard of this author.
Having started Hosseini's new book, I was just thinking that ...
#5 - SqueakyChu - I'll be curious to know what you think of A Thousand Splendid Suns - I am expecting my copy in the mail any day now.
I am about half-way through The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory. I hope to finish up this weekend (it's a fast read so far) and then start on The T ...
I got it! I'm so excited! I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns , the newest book by Khaled Hosseini. The librarian wants it back as soon as possible so SHE can read it. :-)
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What do you think of The Book Thief so far, bookworm12? I recently read it and found it just ...
I just finished a fantastic book A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (author of THe Kite Runner which is also fantastic).
Kite Runner was great, but loved A Thousand Splendid Suns more. I highly recommend both.
Took my 46% off coupon and bought A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini today.
Then I couldn't pass up the buy two, get one free table and snagged:
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Went to B&N last night and bought the following books:
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Atonement by Ian McEwan
I just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Kite Runner author.) It was probably one of the best books I've read in a very very long time. A real page turner I couldn't put down, but yet hated to see the book end. I actually liked it better than The Kite Runner (and I loved ...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Am reading an ARC of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. I'm about 1/3 thru and it is wonderful. Just as good, if not better than The Kite Runner which is another book I absolutely loved. I highly recommend this one.
If anyone is interested, Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner has a new book. Called A Thousand Splendid Suns it received a pretty good review in Literary Review (UK).
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9. Grass for His Pillow by Lian Hearn (10/10)
Re-reading this one. Love it.
10. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (10/10)
This book had me by page 2. I couldn't put it down! Fantastic follow up to The Kite Runner.
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I also reread Donuthead, by Sue Stauffacher for an upcoming online book group.
As for adult books, I'm hoarding A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini for a treat, and I'm hoping to wheedle a copy of Patricia Wood's upcoming Lottery out of my Penguin rep...
Hosseini's new novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is due out in May here in the states. It has already garnered some great reviews.
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56) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
57) Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
58) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
59) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
60) The Human Stain by Philip Roth
61) The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
62) A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Rus ...
>33 Khaled Hosseini has a new book coming out in late May, if you're interested. A Thousand Splendid Suns is another Afghan epic, it's already received starred reviews from Publshers Weekly and Booklist .
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23. Teach With Your Heart by Erin Gruwell
22. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
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21. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
20. Whistling in the Dark Lesley Kagen
19. Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
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This was certainly a very powerful story. It is hard to believe that women have been and are being treated this way in the same world in ...
Finished A Thousand Splendid Suns this morning.....what can I say? Hosseini tells stories so beautifully, so full of emotion.....heartbreaking.....
Anyway am now reading A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini and The Lost Art of Being Happy By Tony Wilkinson.
