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?

I just really didn't like the main character in Kite Runner. Meh.

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?

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).

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!

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.

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.

I've like 100 books I've been meaning to get to, but not in the mood. I get it.

I have been reading the same book since spring. ugh

I'm going to try and be frugal while shopping at the bookstore tomorrow, but I've had my eye on this collection of an old magazine called The Chicagoan that just screams Art Deco goodness.

Speaking of Chicago, I loved this from DailyKos:

For Sale:

1 Sears Tower---$1.2 billion
1 Wrigley Field---$10 million
1 U.S. Senate seat---$500,000 or best cabinet-level position
1 Lincoln home---$4 million
Lou Malnati's pizzeria chain---$10 million
1 Fermi National Accelerator Lab---$300 million
Randomly-chosen Illinois citizens---$50 each
The Evanston Symphony Orchestra (yes, they do windows)---$100,000
Buckingham Fountain---$2.5 million (includes pump)
Peoria---$16 million
1 Illinois Governor's office, including desk, chair, books, American & Illinois flags, and assortment of bongs---A satchel of magic beans
1 Illinois governor's soul---Free with purchase

Cash or MO.
Serious offers only.
No federal agents, please.
Call Rod at: F-ING-GOLDEN