A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Last night I finished “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, the 2nd novel by “The Kite Runner” author, Khaled Hosseini. I was prepared to not be as impressed or affected as I was by the “Kite Runner” because it is a rare occasion that an author is able to follow up his magnum opus with [...]
Book Review – The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
I heard about this book on NPR and was intrigued at the fact that the author was charged for “insulting Turkishness” as she described the Diaspora (when people are forced from their native land) and genocide of the Armenians in the early 1900’s. It is a delicate [...]
The Namesake – A Book Review
I confess that it took me awhile to get used to the staccato simplicity of Lahiri’s writing style. Though the very intimate look into the family traditions, beliefs and practices kept me interested at a deep level of curiosity and cultural learning. This Saturday I picked up the book and was unable to put it [...]
Books I Read in 2006
This was the year where for the first time in my life, I had difficulty finishing a book. It was as though some obligation, that could not be named, grabbed my concentration throttle and set it into low gear, when it would engage at all. Perhaps I was being too methodical [...]
The Kite Runner – A Book Review
I picked up the Kite Runner about a year ago, after having heard a book review on NPR. Usually it’s all I can do to keep myself from tearing into a new book while driving home. If you’re familiar with my driving record, you know that that wouldn’t be a good thing.
For some reason, [...]