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?
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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 6:14:04 pm PST #5915 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
msbelle - Dec 12, 2008 6:33:46 pm PST #5921 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have been reading the same book since spring. ugh
Kathy A - Dec 12, 2008 6:39:36 pm PST #5922 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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
DavidS - Dec 12, 2008 6:40:24 pm PST #5923 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have been reading the same book since spring. ugh
That doesn't sound like fun. I was browsing the oral history of George Plimpton's life as told by his friends - George, Being George and it was very fun and engaging. He had a lot of fun. Plus he did the Harvard Lampoon with Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster) and John Updike. Or they were all around roughly at the same time.
DavidS - Dec 12, 2008 6:41:17 pm PST #5924 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
I was just looking at that tonight, Kathy. It really was very closely modeled on The New Yorker in the 20s.