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The World Party Reading Challenge country for October was Afghanistan. I chose to read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. About the Book: A Thousand Splendid Suns spans thirty years of Afghan history, from the 1970s to 2003, and focuses on the lives of several Afghan women. It’s tough to say more . . . → Read More: Thoughts on “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
This Sunday, I have two fun things to tell you about: a giant book and a secret project. The Giant Book I recently discovered that my sister and I have both been thinking about reading A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. After a brief discussion, we decided to read it together . . . → Read More: Sunday Salon: A Giant Book and a Secret Project Okay, readers, I need your help. I’ve joined the World Party Reading Challenge, hosted by Packabook, who took over from Fizzy Thoughts. I’m really excited to read more world literature! But first…I have to find it. The challenge site offers suggestions for each month, which is a wonderful resource. Or, I could always . . . → Read More: Readers of the World, I Need Your Help! In My Mailbox is a weekly meme, hosted by The Story Siren, in which bloggers share books they’ve acquired in the mail / at the library / from a bookstore. Books came to me from every direction this week! One arrived in the mail, one came home with me from the bookstore, and one . . . → Read More: In My Mailbox: October 10-16 In My Mailbox is a weekly meme, hosted by The Story Siren, in which bloggers share books they’ve acquired in the mail / at the library / from a bookstore. I’m in the middle of moving and, therefore, trying not to acquire more books at the moment. So naturally, several new books came into . . . → Read More: In My Mailbox: September 13-19 I first heard about One Amazing Thing, the newest novel from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, earlier this year, a few weeks after it came out. A coworker handed the book to me and said, “Doesn’t this look interesting?” I read the synopsis and agreed, but the book remained at the periphery of my attention until . . . → Read More: Thoughts on “One Amazing Thing” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni When I travel, I love to bring home books as souvenirs. I try to make my choices reflect the place I’m visiting. This trip has been no different! Here are the books that will be making the trek home with me this time:
As I look at my purchases all together, . . . → Read More: Books Make the Best Souvenirs Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie is a slim volume, coming in under 200 pages, but it does not feel short or insubstantial. Rather, it seems to me to be a study in how to write a novel that contains precisely what it must contain to achieve the author’s endpoint and . . . → Read More: Thoughts on “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress” by Dai Sijie I just finished the most beautiful book. I picked up Half Life by Roopa Farooki because it was compared, on the back of the galley, to Jhumpa Lahiri and Slumdog Millionaire. But after reading the book, I don’t think it’s quite fair to hang its success on its similarities to other famous Indian authors; . . . → Read More: Thoughts on “Half Life” by Roopa Farooki Well, I bit the bullet and finished Suite Francaise on audio today. When I’d stopped the day before, I had a feeling that something terrible was about to happen, and I just couldn’t bear more suffering to be inflicted on the poor characters. It did not go the way I feared. On the contrary, . . . → Read More: Thoughts on “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky (Audiobook) |
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