Please let me know your thoughts and reactions as you "live' through this book. The fact that this book begins and ends in Afghanistan and takes us from a childhood to an adult life in a culture that we clearly do not understand and need to know is only part of the wonder of this novel. We live through the character's journey as a human... we endure all of the pain of a restrictive culture and experience 9\11 from another perspective. I could not put it down...this from me. the gal who only reads books by British or UK authors set in the British Isles. Wow... it is best read that I have had in ages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginny White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [LIT] mid-summer book recs
> On Jul 20, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Deborah Bova wrote: >> Have you read A thousand Splendid Suns by the author of the Kite >> Runner? It >> is a marvelous and breath taking book. > > My mothers/daughters/sisters/friends multi-generational book club is > discussing this book on August 2. I am finishing one more YA book > (Eggs by Jerry Spinelli) before I start it. I wanted to have it fresh > on my mind for the discussion instead of several books back. Will let > you know if anything great is said but so far those who have finished > it have loved it. I like your choice of "breath taking" as a > description. > > Ginny White > Fernandina Beach Middle (FL) > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
