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gandalfgreyheme

gandalfgreyheme

Weekend warrior. Behind the walls of sleep. Opiate. Mostly harmless.

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  • Justine Galvez

    Justine Galvez says

    Thank you! I'm just worried there may be some parts that are boring. :o But thanks for the recommendation! Will buy this as soon as I finish Sputnik Sweetheart. :)

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • paikea

    paikea says

    hey gandalf:) - glad you're back and posting:)

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • paikea

    paikea says

    hey gandalf:) - glad you're back and posting:)

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • raughir

    raughir says

    Thanks for your recommendation of Mistborn. I'm very keen on reading it, given that everyone says that its fantasy with a twist. But I'm afraid it'll have to wait until the scores of books gathering cobwebs on my bookshelf have been read...

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Joyce A

    Joyce A says

    This book is different than the Kite runner because it is about women. It is just as interesting and just as powerful in a different way. I look fwd to reading his future books. Can he keep up the 5* quality? You might want to read The Kabul Beauty School for a post 9/11 slice of life in Afghanistan.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Joyce A

    Joyce A says

    This book is different than the Kite runner because it is about women. It is just as interesting and just as powerful in a different way. I look fwd to reading his future books. Can he keep up the 5* quality? You might want to read The Kabul Beauty School for a post 9/11 slice of life in Afghanistan.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Gladys G

    Gladys G says

    Read it!!! It is about friendship between women. it is about women who are trapped in a culture where they are second class citizens. It tells the story of how they started out as enemies and then they became the best of friends, sacrificing for each other. I also sufferred in reading Paul Coehlo, this book is nothing like the
    Alchemist.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • hashem i

    hashem i says

    Dear friend
    You'r welcome,hope enjoy it.
    Good luck

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephanie

    Stephanie says

    Definitely read "A Thousand Splendid Suns" - It is fantastic. Especially if you liked "The Kite Runner". I loved it and would recommend it to everyone - especially women!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Fariba b

    Fariba b says

    Every book worth to read it, I liked it.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Leslie E

    Leslie E says

    Hi--Sorry, Shelfari dropped you before I could respond to your question about "A Thousand Splendid Suns." I recommend it highly, though it might be a book that women respond to more than men. It's nothing like "The Alchemist" (which I hated)--very gritty view of life for women in Afghanistan, especially after the Taliban takeover. Two remarkable women as characters who gave me quite a sense of the huge restrictions women live under. Hope this helps.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • nusrat

    nusrat says

    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    's is well written but extremely sad... if you can bear the extreme sadness , do read it

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • kawthar

    kawthar says

    Yes , it is novel based in Afghanistan ,very informative and sad, I have read Paul Coelho Alchemist ,it is not like it

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Fariba f

    Fariba f says

    hi
    i recomended this book to you.
    it is a nice story. it is not like coelho s books.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ruth Isaac

    Ruth Isaac says

    Yes. It's gripping and shows how the under privelaged live. Stark, shocking and very informative.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • hashem i

    hashem i says

    Dear Friend
    Hi,if you really are interested in sociology and demography
    this book will shows you some historical and sociological
    point of views of Afghanistan,a poor country with some
    prehistoric aspects and relationships specially within women
    and children community in that country.
    I should say that the book is not in the same form of THOSE you
    dislike!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Gwen K

    Gwen K says

    A Thousand Splendid Suns is definitely NOT Paul Coelho. It is stark, dark, and sobering, but at the same time uplifting in the sense of the resilience of the human soul. Great read, beautifully written. Rain FOrest's "haunting" is an excellent descriptor.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Rain Forest

    Rain Forest says

    A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of those haunting books that you can never forget. Not just that, I found my eyes had been opened about Afghanistan after reading it. I have seen women in burkhas from when I was little but this was the first time I was getting perspective about what its like from behind it. A beautiful book, that leaves all the more of an impression on you b'cos you know that it could so very well be happening this way in Afghanistan.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Linda L

    Linda L says

    this is hardly a pie-in -the-sky happyeverafter book that's for sure!!Lots of tragic twists and turns -- think you would find it worth the challenge --

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Barb L

    Barb L says

    Title: Thousand Splendid Suns, A. A line in a poem to glorify Kabul, Afghanistan. [fiction]
    Author: Khaled Hosseini
    Published: 2007
    Awards:
    Summary
    Two Afghan women’s lives meet with their marriage to the same abusive husband who follows the Taliban’s most restrictive rules for women. Mariam is a poor child raised by her mother who retreats to a very rural village after becoming pregnant with Mariam by a wealthy, already married man. Mariam is a harami—a bastard—and has no rights to claim her father to take responsibility for her, but he visits her regularly from the city and often brings her gifts and the hope that he loves her. But, when she runs away from her mother and the tiny village in which she is being raised, to live with her father, at first he shuns her and ultimately marries her off to a widowed shoemaker, Rasheed. Laila has lived in Kabul, the city, and her father raises her to be an educated person. When her family and the man she loves and whose child she is currently carrying die, she agrees to marry Rasheed to have a father for her unborn child. Mariam envies the way Rasheed cares for Laila when she announces that she is pregnant and resents Laila’s presence in her life, one in which she has been consistently abused. When Aziza is born a girl, Rasheed’s care for Laila turns to abuse, and the two women form a bond to survive their beatings and their poverty in a war-torn Afghanistan. (367 pages)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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