Jesse, why did it piss you off?
I find the Hosseini pulls all of the sad strings oh so well. I mean, he's practically the Nicholas Sparks of Literary Fiction!
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Dec 12, 2008 6:00:40 pm PST #5911 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 6:05:49 pm PST #5912 of 10002
you got my article thingy the other day?
Yep, plus all the supposition that mortgage rates will sink below 5%. Home prices went up 1.1% in the city, but on-market time is up. Plus!!! So tired of dealing with this apartment.
Kat - Dec 12, 2008 6:07:50 pm PST #5913 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
OH! Just finished the book. The ending was oddly hopeful. I remember Kite Runner as being super super super super upsetting and depressing for me. And this one is too. But it ends with hope which I don't remember from the other one.
WAH. What am I going to read next?
Jesse - Dec 12, 2008 6:11:37 pm PST #5914 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just really didn't like the main character in Kite Runner. Meh.
Kat - Dec 12, 2008 6:14:04 pm PST #5915 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
You might like A Thousand Splendid Suns. Female narrators at least. Both of whom are more sympathetic than the kid in Kite Runner.
What to read next?
Trudy Booth - Dec 12, 2008 6:16:01 pm PST #5916 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My daughter is allergic to me.
Doubtful. Any chance you just switched detergents or something? I know at one point in my babyhood the house had to be purged of Tide (not just my clothes).
DavidS - Dec 12, 2008 6:20:14 pm PST #5917 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
david, mac is also kinda obsessed with money. omgoodness.
Does he also like sweets, complain when he doesn't get what he wants, walk under the sun in the daytime and tend to breathe air? Identical!
sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 6:25:01 pm PST #5918 of 10002
I'm woefully behind in my books. Allende? Obama's Audacity (the one I was reading while visiting ) was good, though not really something I didn't already know. It was a read I figure my high school US history teacher might assign in a decade, and his educational plan made me waaay overprepared in college US civics and history classes. But still, it was fun. And more goofy anecdotes! And geeky gov't talk that gives me hope.
Kat - Dec 12, 2008 6:27:39 pm PST #5919 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm more apt to read Dreams of My Father. Really, it's more like, "What's on the bookshelf right now that I haven't already read -- Annie Dillard's Maytrees. An Elizabeth Berg book. Meh.
sarameg - Dec 12, 2008 6:32:10 pm PST #5920 of 10002
I've like 100 books I've been meaning to get to, but not in the mood. I get it.