Done!

I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns just now. I started it Friday night, but couldn't stop reading it. Khaled Hosseini has a way of making each chapter end just so that you can't wait to find out what happens next. Seriously, read something of his and you'll get it. Comment if you've read this one.

Book Club!

Rebekah (http://silveralley.wordpress.com/) and I decided today that we're starting a book club. So far, it's just us, but you should join, too. Our first book is A Thousand Splended Suns, which is written by Khaled Hosseini (who also wrote The Kite Runner). Check it out, buy it, start reading it today!

Water for Elephants

Okay, so here's the skinny. Don't read it. It's an okay book with an awesome story... quite a sad combo if you asked me. The title made NO sense in the story. It was referred to twice as a joke... that circus workers don't really bring water to the elephants... ha ha ha... The author wrote it like it was an inside joke among the circus folk, but NEVER let the reader in on the joke. That was annoying, gotta tell ya. Also, she frequently described the acts of the circus (like I cared) and completely neglected the story for pages at a time. That was really boring. At first I thought she was character building, but then she wouldn't go back to that character... or by the time she did, I'd forgotten who they were and had to turn back. Anyway, after The Kite Runner, it was a sad book. Not at all what I wanted to read.

First book finished in over a year!!

Beth (http://www.kis4kay.wordpress.com/) told me to read it, and, for once, I read a book someone suggested! So, you have to read it to get my blog (do it!), but I was surprised at how much happened in the book. It's very well written; very descriptive, so it was EASY to imagine what was happening. I'm worried now, because I want to see them movie... I wonder what they're going to leave out... it seems to me that everything matters, but there's really no way to fit it all in. Well, I think I'll wait a bit to watch it so that I can avoid being totally let down.

Really, though... READ IT!