good books?

scrubsfiend

It's been on every bestseller list since the day it came out and I can now see why - The Kite Runner.  I kept putting it off, thinking it wasn't really my type of book but I LOVED it. 

I found The Kite Runner to be astonishingly powerful and memorable - I also loved it.  I also read A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author.  It covers much the same period in Afghanistan, but the central characters are female and the perspective therefore differs a bit.  It is also very, very good.  I think because the first was so amazing, this one, though excellent, doesn't bowl you over in quite the same way, but I think it is worth your time!

pofi_pasquale

scrubsfiend

It's been on every bestseller list since the day it came out and I can now see why - The Kite Runner.  I kept putting it off, thinking it wasn't really my type of book but I LOVED it. 

I found The Kite Runner to be astonishingly powerful and memorable - I also loved it.  I also read A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author.  It covers much the same period in Afghanistan, but the central characters are female and the perspective therefore differs a bit.  It is also very, very good.  I think because the first was so amazing, this one, though excellent, doesn't bowl you over in quite the same way, but I think it is worth your time!

Good to know, I had been wondering about that one.  I feel for authors like this one who have such a stunner the first time out.  How do you follow that?!

scrubsfiend

Water for Elephants is an interesting one too, it's about a guy who leaves vet school right before graduating and joins the circus.

i really liked this one! 

Maxs Mom

I did just start a book called "Tell Me Where It Hurts" it is by a vet (sorry don't remember the name) I just started it but I really like it. He works in a  large veterinary hospital in Massachusetts, and it is about his patients, owners collegues. Pretty entertaining so far. 

I just heard the author of this book interviewed on NPR ("Fresh Air" with Terri Gross).  His name is Nick Trout.  It was an excellent interview, and he was really wonderful - I kept thinking, "I wish he was my vet!"  If you'd like to hear it, you can search for it on the NPR website, www.npr.org

My SIL keeps raving about The Kite Runner.  It's on my list, but I've got to get through the pile of books already on my nightstand first.  It's hard to find blocks of uninterrupted time to really enjoy a book.  I often read at night, which means I start to doze off rather quickly, so I have to re-read a page or two the next night since I didn't absorb any of it the first time!   It takes weeks to get through a book that way!