A few of my favourite things in the world include making people laugh and recommending something to people then finding out that they loved it as much as i did... whether it's music or a film or a book or food, i don't care it's just a great feeling!
Whilst i was on holiday last year, diving and whatnot, i read a book. It's not the the sort of book i'd normally read, some of you have probably read it because it claims to be "The Richard & Judy Number One Bestseller". It's called A Thousand Splendid Suns and it is horrible.
Ok, it's not horrible, it's beautiful, but in some ways it's like an episode of Casualty, in that everything that could possible go wrong for the poor characters, does go wrong.
I'm not really selling it to you am i?
It's by Khaled Hosseini - he wrote The Kite Runner.
It's one of the few books where i've cried whilst reading it. I told my dad to read it, he finished reading it today and although he didn't cry (i don't think he's ever cried - even when his mother died, he didn't cry) i could tell that he was sad.
It's not exactly a true story, but it's not exactly made up either... does that make sense?
The characters are made up but the other things that happen, did actually happen/are still happening.
It's about two women, Mariam and Laila who live in Afghanistan, they do lots of things... mostly it's about war and the Taliban and friendship and love and all that sort of stuff.
As you'll know from my previous attempts at reviewing things - i'm not very good at it.
Basically, i think you should read it. you can borrow my copy of it if you want... as long as you don't spill beer all over it (which is what happened last time i lent somebody a book).
Oh, and listen to my playlist: Saturday
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