Thursday, July 7, 2005

Attack of the Pancakes
I’ve been eating pancakes w/syrup almost every day for the past three weeks! I sometimes added cut up bananas to them which is very, very good, but I can certainly say that I’ve had my fill for now. When school was in I didn’t have the time to make them except on weekends, but you certainly can’t satisfy a craving that sort of way. So I gave in to excessive pancake eating, the best way to take care of that! ^_^

Now during the last semester of school I read The Kite Runner and really I found it by chance and chose to read it over Ender’s Game. One reason is because I sometimes don’t like books in a series because I will feel I want to read the whole thing, but won’t want to because I want to move on to other books. The other reason was because I thought, hey, I know nil about Afghanistan so maybe I’ll learn a little something even though it’s a fiction book.

I’m happy to say that I did not regret my choice. I absolutely love this book and I want to read it again, but I haven’t got $14 to spend on anything and the durn library near us has got 48 requests on the thing. I’m not going to request they put it on hold for me because I just can’t wait that long. I see now that I was quite fortunate to get it in the school library.

To me The Kite Runner is amazing; the characters, story and everything are just wonderful. I can’t describe how much I love Khaled Hosseini’s style in this book. There’s so much imagery and the characterization I just so fantastically done. I don’t usually analyze things because I appreciate most things for what they are, but I just have to say something about this one.

As I read Kite Runner I was taken into an unfamiliar world and got to know the people with in it as they appeared to me. The one thing I found so interesting was a peek at the culture that is the culture of Afghanistan. And I learned of things I’d probably never know about before reading this book. It reminds me that there are things that exist, that go on in this world that a lot of us never come to know of.

I enjoyed all of the themes in the book; betrayal, redemption, relationship between fathers and sons. Another thing I always find delight in learning of the views that other peoples have toward the U.S. and that’s because I don’t know what others think, to be honest. The media is nothing to trust of course and discovering things through novels is a lot better and much more fun, even if it’s fiction.

Right now I’m re-reading, Night, by Elie Wiesel and then I wish to read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt which I don’t know anything about, but I love not knowing very much about a story and just jumping right in. I choose much of my reading that way although it can be a tad tedious. However, I do have wondrous discoveries!

Something else I want to do is review some of my French because I’m taking French III next year. I think it was yesterday I noticed I’d forgotten what left and right were in French so now I know I’m really in trouble!

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