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~So, I have successfully finished “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and I highly recommend this book to everyone. It is one of those meaningful ones that inevitably leave something behind. Something that kind of makes your life more meaningful.
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a book about 3 generations of women living in Afghanistan whose lives got intertwines. It’s a book about their dreams and hopes and losses and suffering, and all things that life usually consists of. The situation with the female population in the Islamic countries had always been quite complex, there have always been some struggle between modern approach to treating a woman and following the traditions.
I cannot possibly speculate on that, I am too feministic in too many ways for that. Besides, I can’t see it clearly through their eyes as I have been raised as a too independent person to consider the wishes and demands of the husband. Ha! Tell me what to do and I’ll tell you where to go.
Well, it’s not the point now. I have to say that “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a wonderful well written book. You will cry, a lot. I bawled my eyes out because it was that sad and heartbreaking but I lover every moment of it, I love it so, so much! Go and read it now!
~I now started reading Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta. Can’t say anything about it yet, only a few pages in but I’ll make sure to let you know if it is any good because I have heard some great things about that book and I hope it’ll be awesome :)
~Last Sunday I woke up with a sudden urge to watch “The Shining”. Verdict - a few years ago and watched in the dark is seemed A LOT scarier. Now it was quite…. Well, not lame exactly but definitely old school, and if watched on Halloween, I wouldn’t even blink :P Speak of growing up
~The bright side of my life in general is that it is finally warm enough for me to take my bike out and go the rides. It only works on weekends so far because it’s getting dark quite early yet and it doesn’t make sense to go out after work if I have, like, 20 minutes for it.
~The job is getting quite unbearable lately. I know I am not going to get a vacation or anything but I swear to god, another meeting, and I will start screaming and punching people. So much for yoga and having balance in my life. Yeah, right. It’s easy to be balanced when I sit on my mat. It’s another thing entirely when you waste your time on blah blah blah. It is just…. It’s really horrible. And it’s so not right ot wake up every morning and be like - why am I even alive? Not right :P Waiting for my personal issue to solve so that I could know what to do about this whole thing :P
~It’s the first year since 2009 that I’m not going to do any conventions, and it’s a little bit sad and unsettling. I am so used to seeing my awesome friends at the cons that not having it to look forward to is very weird. I don’t have any traveling plans for 2012, which is not great either but I have to deal with it, I guess.
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a book about 3 generations of women living in Afghanistan whose lives got intertwines. It’s a book about their dreams and hopes and losses and suffering, and all things that life usually consists of. The situation with the female population in the Islamic countries had always been quite complex, there have always been some struggle between modern approach to treating a woman and following the traditions.
I cannot possibly speculate on that, I am too feministic in too many ways for that. Besides, I can’t see it clearly through their eyes as I have been raised as a too independent person to consider the wishes and demands of the husband. Ha! Tell me what to do and I’ll tell you where to go.
Well, it’s not the point now. I have to say that “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a wonderful well written book. You will cry, a lot. I bawled my eyes out because it was that sad and heartbreaking but I lover every moment of it, I love it so, so much! Go and read it now!
~I now started reading Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta. Can’t say anything about it yet, only a few pages in but I’ll make sure to let you know if it is any good because I have heard some great things about that book and I hope it’ll be awesome :)
~Last Sunday I woke up with a sudden urge to watch “The Shining”. Verdict - a few years ago and watched in the dark is seemed A LOT scarier. Now it was quite…. Well, not lame exactly but definitely old school, and if watched on Halloween, I wouldn’t even blink :P Speak of growing up
~The bright side of my life in general is that it is finally warm enough for me to take my bike out and go the rides. It only works on weekends so far because it’s getting dark quite early yet and it doesn’t make sense to go out after work if I have, like, 20 minutes for it.
~The job is getting quite unbearable lately. I know I am not going to get a vacation or anything but I swear to god, another meeting, and I will start screaming and punching people. So much for yoga and having balance in my life. Yeah, right. It’s easy to be balanced when I sit on my mat. It’s another thing entirely when you waste your time on blah blah blah. It is just…. It’s really horrible. And it’s so not right ot wake up every morning and be like - why am I even alive? Not right :P Waiting for my personal issue to solve so that I could know what to do about this whole thing :P
~It’s the first year since 2009 that I’m not going to do any conventions, and it’s a little bit sad and unsettling. I am so used to seeing my awesome friends at the cons that not having it to look forward to is very weird. I don’t have any traveling plans for 2012, which is not great either but I have to deal with it, I guess.