whats the choice for may sherrie
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Sherrie
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Posted 10:34 pm, 05/24/2006
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I got my copy today too. There was one copy left.
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Allie367
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Posted 5:41 pm, 05/24/2006
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Just wanted to let you all know I was at the Wilkes Library today, I got a copy of the Kite Runner and they still had two remaining copies. Just a heads up in case someone wanted to read but didnt have the extra cash, etc...
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Sherrie
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Posted 12:22 am, 05/18/2006
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Okay it looks like the Kite Runner has the most votes. We will read it for May and let's just go ahead and read The Constant Gardener in June.
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homemama
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Posted 7:28 pm, 05/17/2006
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I've been told that The Kite Runner is a very powerful and emotional book. Let's try it!
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Readaholic
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Posted 8:26 pm, 05/16/2006
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Both books are great reads--The Kite Runner is a more powerful choice (IMHO).
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Page-Turner
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Posted 10:33 pm, 05/14/2006
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I don't know what to do. Should we try to read both?? LOL!
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LovingRN
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Posted 6:36 pm, 05/10/2006
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awww....come on everyone, voice your opinion....i'm new to this club, but im excited about getting involved.
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Sherrie
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Posted 3:52 am, 05/10/2006
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Ok we are tied right now. Come on in everyone and let us know which one you pick.
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Allie367
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Posted 12:27 am, 05/07/2006
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Wow, they both look great. I think my choice would have to be The Kite Runner. Either way, I am sure both will be a wonderful read!
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LovingRN
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Posted 12:01 am, 05/07/2006
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My choice would be The Constant Gardener
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Sherrie
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Posted 11:49 pm, 05/06/2006
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Bumping up to see if one of these books is ok. Next month we will pick a classic. We may rotate back and forth between classics, bestsellers, biographies and self help.
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Sherrie
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Posted 1:54 am, 05/05/2006
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The Kite Runner
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr...
In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")
Some of the plot's turns and twists may be somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real that one almost forgets that The Kite Runner is a novel and not a memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land. Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too soon. --Gisele Toueg --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Sherrie
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Posted 1:52 am, 05/05/2006
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The Constant Gardener
Book Description
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin--is gruesomely murdered in northern Kenya. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect, but also a target for Tessa's killers.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy, as Justin Quayle--amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat--discovers his own natural resources and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr...
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Sherrie
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Posted 1:50 am, 05/05/2006
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Thank you Loving RN.
I found another book that sounds great. It is called The Kite Runner. I will put a synopsis for both books in a post. See what you think about them.
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LovingRN
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Posted 6:56 pm, 05/03/2006
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Sorry you have been sick Sherry, hope your feeling better.
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Sherrie
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Posted 1:38 am, 05/02/2006
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I saw a book the other day that looked good. It is called The Constant Gardner. There is a movie based on it. Let me look up a few more books and we will decide. I have been sick for several days and not had a chance.
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Allie367
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Posted 3:10 pm, 04/28/2006
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Also he has a new one out, released in 2005, entitled The Twelfth Card
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Allie367
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Posted 10:55 pm, 04/26/2006
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Hey Crazy, Jeffery Deaver was the guys name. A book of his I would recommend is The Empty Chair, which is a suspense/thriller.
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crazyaboutmykids
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Posted 8:32 am, 04/26/2006
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hey hey hey got april read maybe i can get some time in on the new pick? lol.. right now i am reading coroners journal stalking death in louisiana by louis cataldie/patricia cornwell and its a slow read ugh but i am trying to finish it.. next is Help i can't stop laughing ann spangler/shari macdonald... i met allie last night at curves land and she mentioned a author john deaver i think...he is supposed to be like koontz,cornwell....maybe something to look into one month.. :D
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