Comments on: A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:30:01 +0000

[...] posts, I saw some great ones, where I tackled an issue and presented my side, reviewed a book or movie that was important or interesting to me, or when I played around with some narrative structures that made for nice little vignettes. I am [...]

By: jackie

jackie — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:13:24 +0000

What an interesting idea for a unit! I teach at an all-girls school, but we do get some boys in our junior year from a brother school. I never thought of having them read different books.

By: Tammy Gillmore

Tammy Gillmore — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:36:52 +0000

My juniors read these novels during our The Bullying Mentality unit. Guys read The Kite Runner…gals read A Thousand Splendid Suns.

They agreed…very powerful novels.

By: jackie

jackie — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:35:21 +0000

Lauren, I’m exactly the same way– literature captures my interest much more than nonfiction. I also get much more engaged by history when it’s present in biographies, like presidential biographies, etc. I like a good narrative with strong characters .

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:59:31 +0000

I thought the same when I read both of Hosseini’s books – and an absolute fascination with Afghanistan, the history and the culture. Then I felt sort of silly that it took a bestselling novel to open my eyes to something that is on the news daily (and a topic I admittedly glaze over).

After reading I wanted more on the experiences of women in different cultures and picked up copies of In the Land of Invisible Women (a female Pakistani doctor in Saudi Arabia) and Infidel (a Somalian Muslim woman). Both are nonfiction and I’ve put them both down – they were not able to capture my attention nearly as well as the fictional Kite Runner or Splendid Suns did.

By: laurie

laurie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:54:28 +0000

I like this one. I’m not seeing too much blank space and the font size seems better to me. Perhaps it depends on the browser? I’m viewing it in Firefox.

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:35:38 +0000

Shoot, I think my browser is still set to zoom in, because it doesn’t look that way to me.

This is frustrating.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:12:20 +0000

Half of it is blank space!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:32:35 +0000

I like this better than the other one, but it still seems a little small.