We will be meeting at my place
for book club this month on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm. Please note that this is a location change
from the schedule on the blog (don't want you to show up at the wrong place!). We will be discussing the book "A
Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. Below is a brief summary of the book:
Born
a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam
and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate.
As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them – in their home as well
as in the streets of Kabul – they come to form a bond that makes them both
sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the
course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With
heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her
family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in
the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to
survival.
Hope to see you there!
-Diana H.
I waited too long to pick up the book from the library, so I'm not gonna get very far in the book by Thursday. :( How are you all coming? Have you finished it?
ReplyDeleteMelissa, I won't be there on Thursday but I wanted to ask you the name of the poetry anthology you brought in December. I've looked at a few and they haven't been as good. Do you remember?
DeleteHi Lyndsey. The book is "The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems" by Michael Harrison (it has a blue cover). A blog post about it is coming soon!
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