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blatantbibliophiles said
I am currently reading The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland which is about a female painter in the 17th century. I am also reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer, which is a horror story about aliens invading the Earth and taking over the bodies of humans. I can’t wait to see how both of them end! Mrs. Fleet
Jessica said
I just finished reading Ethan Frome by Edith Warton, which is about a man who is faced with a choice between his obligation and his passions. I’m also reading Edge by Dick Francis about a Trans-continental Mystery Race Train, and the main character’s attempts to stop a crook from doing anything shady amidst the theatrical mystery performance. So yeah…looks good! ^.^
Comma Splice Queen said
*jaw drops* are you kidding me? That’s it? we need some other people on here! I just finished reading The Chosen, by Chaim Potok an AWESOME book about a Jewish boy(Reuven) and his Hasidic friend(Danny). Danny doesn’t want to become a rabbi even though it is passed from father to son, and Reuven wants to be a rabbi despite his exceptional talent for math. You’ll have to read it to find out if either becomes a rabbi, but it is SO good! ^.^
Shelby said
I am reading the reading bowl books! right now letters from rapunzel.
Emilie said
has anyone read impulse yet? its a peach book and i need to read it for the reading bowl but i just havent found time to start it…
anyone know if it is any good?
Emilie said
and whoever comma splice queen is…
that book was so boring lol youre crazy.
naw im jk it was okay… more of a book i would only read because i was forced to for ap literature though.
Huma Ahmad said
I am currently reading, well I finished it last night, A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book was the first book that actually made me cry. There were parts that were make-you-cry for happy reasons but there were parts that were make-you-cry for sad reasons. I encourage everyone to read it. And thank you Mrs. Fleet to introduce A Thousand Splendid Suns to me!!! READ IT PLEASE, it is an eye-opener. The plot is: “The novel opens with the introduction of Mariam, an Afghan girl growing up in a small village on the outskirts of Herat. She lives with her mother, Nana, an embittered woman who is frequently resentful towards her daughter whom she bore out of wedlock. Mariam busies herself with lessons in reading and writing from Mullah Faizullah, an elderly kind-hearted cleric, and weekly visits from her wealthy father, Jalil. Mariam has heard of her father’s other wives and children, who live with him at his lavish home in Herat, but has never visited them due to the stigma of her being an illegitimate child. On her fifteenth birthday in 1974, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at the movie theatre that he owns. When Jalil fails to show up, Mariam decides to travel to Herat for the first time in her life and go to her father’s house in person. Jalil refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping outdoors on the porch. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has hanged herself out of fear that her daughter has deserted her. Mariam is taken to live in her father’s house, where she feels isolated and spends most of her time alone in her room. Jalil and his wives quickly arrange for her to be married to an older widower named Rasheed, who is a middle-class shoemaker in Kabul. In Kabul, Mariam begins adjusting to her new life as the wife of a man she barely knows. Mariam soon becomes pregnant, and Rasheed, having lost his own son in a drowning accident years earlier, hopes for a boy. When Mariam suffers a miscarriage, her marriage takes a turn for the worse; Rasheed is no longer cordial to her, but verbally and physically abuses her. Down the street lives Laila, the beautiful, bright young daughter of ethnic Tajik parents – a progressive-minded high school teacher and a mother who mourns the loss of her two sons, who were mujahideen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Laila has a subtle romance with Tariq, a boy from the neighborhood who lost a leg as a small child to a land mine explosion. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq’s family decides to leave the city. The emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq culminates in a clandestine tryst on the living room sofa. Laila’s family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing, a rocket destroys the house and kills her parents. Laila is taken in by Rasheed and Mariam. After recovering from her injuries, including a slight deafness in one ear, Laila discovers she is pregnant with Tariq’s child. To avoid the stigma of being an unwed mother, Laila arranges to marry Rasheed, who is only too eager to have a young and attractive second wife, and immediately consummates the marriage in hopes that she can pass the child off as his. A man stops by the house to tell Laila that he met Tariq at a hospital, and that Tariq was now dead. Laila gives birth to Aziza, a daughter. Rasheed is unhappy and suspicious, and he becomes more abusive. After an initially rancorous relationship, Mariam and Laila eventually become confidantes. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul for Peshawar, Pakistan, but they are betrayed at the bus station by a man they thought they could trust, arrested and returned to Rasheed. Rasheed beats the two women and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza.
A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed’s son. By this time, the Taliban has risen to power in Afghanistan. They have banned television, movies and books other than the Koran, and women are not allowed to work. A drought comes, which eventually leads to widespread hunger and food shortages. When Rasheed’s shop burns down, the family is thrust into destitution. There is little food and Rasheed finds himself reduced to working as a porter at a hotel. As their financial situation worsens, Aziza is sent to an orphanage a few kilometers away. Then one day, Tariq appears outside the house, revealing the fact that the man who stopped by the house to tell the news about Tariq’s death was a plan made by Rasheed. He and Laila are reunited, and their passions flare anew. When Rasheed returns home from work, young Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila with his belt, but Mariam comes to Laila’s defense by killing Rasheed with a shovel. Laila and Tariq leave for Pakistan with the children. Mariam confesses to killing her husband and is executed. After the fall of the Taliban in 2003, Laila and Tariq decide to return to Afghanistan. They stop in the village near Herat where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam’s father had left behind for her: a videotape of Pinocchio and check for her share of the family inheritance. They return to Kabul and fix up the orphanage.”
Perry said
I just finished reading ‘Good Girls’ by Laura Ruby.
It was okay, to be honest. I hated the ending, I can’t say what it was because that would ruin the book, but it was horrible. I wish there was a sequal. It’s about a picture that gets sent around school of a girl and a guy…at a party…won’t say more then that! Read it if you want to know about the picture. The book was good (before the ending).
Besides that, I’ve read:
~The Husband by Dean Koontz
~Tell No One by Harlan Coben
~No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
~Are You in the House alone? by Richard Peck
~Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
I’m about to read:
*The Door to December by Dean Koontz
*Fear Nothing by Dean Koontz
blatantbibliophiles said
Thanks for the great comments, guys (OK, gals!) You are reading some great books!
Perry said
So, in my last comment I said I was about to read Door to December and Fear Nothing. Well, I didn’t get a chance to read Door to December, but I finished Fear Nothing. It was a good book for the most part, it was sort of very random. I wondered why someone would write such an interestingly random book. The book did have action and suspense, but it was a weak plot and a weaker ending.
I haven’t been back to the library since then, but I plan to go back to see the new layout, and of course, get a couple books! I’ll post about those when I’m done!
blatantbibliophiles said
Thanks, Perry! Hope to see you dropping by again soon.