The Kite Runner: Rejacketed | 
pick4.5/5 ⭐️ This was a difficult book to read, but the overall story was good. My heart broke multiple times 💔 Hope y'all made it through this one OK!
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EASY AFGHANI KABULI PULAO/RICE
I wish I had time to try all the food mentioned in this book…it all sounds wonderful. I didn‘t know what to expect from Afghan flavors, but I‘d like to learn more. I really liked this method for cooking rice…I think I‘ll incorporate it into my regular rotation.
I‘m still only about halfway through the book. (Continued below under spoiler ⬇️)
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🦋 Tagged. It's a difficult read but I'd say 4 stars so far. I like the writing and overall story.
🦋Lobizona- I loved the world building and themes about immigration and LGBTQIA rights.
🦋I'm grateful for my incredible and supportive partner @Light_of_Aether
Thanks for the tag Karen!
#wondrouswednesday
panThis book was fine. Until the MC got a phone call and then it just became a total cluster, full of eye rolling coincidences and unnecessary trauma. I loved learning about Afghan history and culture, so it wasn‘t a complete loss for me, but I think I need to listen to my gut about steering clear of NYT bestsellers 🙄. Sorry to be a hater for this one, #foodandlit!
Tempted to rage quit, but I have less than 80 pages left, so hate read it is. Unpopular opinion here, but this book has spiraled into contrived trauma porn that just needs to end already 🙄😡
Thank you for all of the birthday wishes! 🥰
I spent the day at an outdoor music festival (my first in many years!) and didn‘t read a single page. I‘m very sore today from so much standing and walking (thanks, aging!), so I have melted into my couch and am hoping to finish the tagged for #foodandlit
Afghani Burani Banjan (Afghan Eggplant and Tomato with Yogurt Sauce).
The lentils are undercooked, and I could live without the yogurt sauce (but I don‘t think I got the right kind of yogurt). But otherwise it‘s good. I love eggplant!
I didn‘t expect this book to be any easy read, but it‘s so much tougher than I thought it‘d be. The scene with the pomegranates was heartbreaking.
#FoodAndLit #Afghanistan
"Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors."
#FoodandLit Buddy Read Check-in
Oof how are y'all doing with this book?
I'm a third through and already have been crying. I knew this book would be heavy but I didn't realize it would be keep-me-up-all-night-haunt-my-dreams heavy.
so-so3✨ This was a hard one to read. I was not in the right mindset to read it, but appreciated all I learned about Afghanistan. Not knowing a lot about the country made it a challenging read and the content was hard emotionally to get through.
Maybe not *just* like those friendly longhaired men and women…
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The #FoodandLit Buddy Read for May is The Kite Runner 🇦🇫
This is a casual read-at-your-own-pace buddy read. Anyone is welcome to join! Please let me know if you would like to be tagged in the check-in posts.
pickWhat a heartbreaking story this was. There were moments when I struggled with reading, because it got to heavy for me, but I also couldn't put it down. It was like poking at a wound, you know it's gonna hurt, but you just can't help yourself. What an amazing piece of literature this is, I'm so glad I got around reading it thanks to my book club. It was also a glimpse into country and culture I knew so little about.
pickI know I am very late to the game in reading this one but had to talk about it. This book kept me up and I haven‘t been able to stop thinking about it. This broke my heart in so many pieces but I am so glad to have read it. Sometimes we have to walk through other‘s shoes to gain some perspective on our own life. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI don't know if it's because of the author's culture and tone, but I felt like I was reading poetry the whole time. I love the bold expression of emotions, it kept me wanting to read one more chapter.
“Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.” - Amir.
#GratefulHarvest #Silence
"Day 5: Favorite Classic Novel"
More like a contemporary classic, but still seen as a classic nonetheless. The Kite Runner was such a good read.
pickThis book was SO good! But when I tell you I cried! It was very depressing at times, and the ending hit me right in the feels. It‘s obviously getting ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”
“It was Homaria and me against the world. And I tell you this, Amir jan: In the end, the world always wins. That‘s just the way of things.”
“I know, I know. But he‘s always buried in those books or shuffling around the house like he‘s lost in some dream.”
“And?”
“I wasn‘t like that.” Baba sounded frustrated, almost angry.
Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren‘t colouring books. You don‘t get to fill them with your favourite colours.”
I literally haven‘t been able to put this book down! I was about to go to bed (you can see the duvets) but then I saw this books again and I haven‘t been able to put it down since! It‘s really got me hooked!
so-soThe Kite Runner is a good read, and a newly-resonant one (given what has happened in Kabul these past couple of months), but there are too many convenient coincidences and foreseeable twists for it to really get my motor running. Go ahead and read it if you‘re interested, but steel yourself! Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-kite-runner-khaled-hosseini/
pickFor you, a thousand time over..
Hosseini's first book, majorly referred to as a story of kinship, but as I re-read this, I realized that it better be referred to as a story of guilt, self-realization, and redemption. It combines the anguish of being overlooked by a parent, the constant fear of being killed/evicted from one's own homeland, and the pain of immigration. A must read for everyone.
This is the saddest interview. As if the gut wrenching footage isn‘t enough, this really brings it home.
The author of 'The Kite Runner' has a message for anyone worried about Afghanistan https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/world/khaled-hosseini-afghanistan-taliban-qa-trnd...
#KhaledHosseini #Afghanistan #CNN
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When u tell a lie, you steal someone's right to truth. When u cheat, you steal the right to fairness .
pickI am surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It has some hard topics/scenes but the overall book was really good.
Up next: another backlist I *should* have read a long time ago...it‘s literally been sitting on my bookshelves for years.
I‘m using this one for the Middle East prompt in the Reading Around The World Challenge.
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#Movie2BookRecs @TK-421
Prompt: Emma Stone
If you liked The Help I would recommend The Kite Runner.
pickKhaled Hosseini's books always leave me gutted and emotional. Somehow feeling bereft and hopeful at the same time. It always takes me a while to read them because they aren't the kind of books you breeze through, but the kind you have to sit with. The kind that never truly leave you. This book will stay with me for a long time.
Fifth book for the #Asianreadathon is a book I've been meaning to read for a long time. I believe this copy is my sister's & it's been sitting on my shelf for years. Oops! Well I'm reading it now. I have to mentally prepare myself for all the feels I know I'll have with this one. This is the final prompt in the readathon. The prompt is to read any book by an Asian author that's not US centric. The country represented is Afghanistan.
#MayCharacters Day 16: A #merciful character
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Still feel bad and ugly cry bad. Hassan. Kind, sweet Hassan.😭
pickWow! Now I know what the hype around this one always was. So good and so sad. Another "everyone has to read it".
#WindsofMarch @Eggs
We haven't had much wind here in Colorado this March, but we may get a giant snow storm this weekend.😀
pickThis book warmed my heart as a reader, as well as a writer. Hosseini does a great job of getting you really invested in the main character. You feel everything he feels and I was left with the idea I lived an entire life between starting and finishing the book. Extraordinary.
Artwork by: https://www.deviantart.com/mleth
pickWhat can I say about this book? I‘ve had it so long but never read it. I mean the pages were yellowing. When I started it moons ago a scene early on turned me off. Fast forward and my buddy reader selects the book and I have ZERO regrets, well maybe one.... that I took so long to pick it up again. Sad story, yet absolutely beautifully written. I‘ll never forget it or how it made me feel 5🌟 (read in 2020).
pickMistake turns into regret, regret into guilt and guilt, has such power to feed into your life, continuing to grow unless one learns to forgive. A book that transparently portrays a character's life for a long span, brings me along with all of the joy and pain they go through. This was a powerful storyline that really made me think of the necessity of forgiveness
