K is for …. Khaleesi
Khaleesi (the Bearded Dragon) approves this message.
A nice stack of K’s here. Nora Roberts, Ann Rule, Iris Johansen, Dean Koontz, all good ones but there is one that stands out among the rest.
The Kite Runner… This was a beautifully written, heart breaking and moving story. One that I could not put down, and weighs heavy on my heart still to this day. I read this book last year and it changed me. “There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. 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 you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
Having grown up only knowing Afghanistan as it is today, it was so eye opening to be shown what it was before war came and took ahold of it for 40 years. Makes you wonder what it could have been, or maybe what it can become.
Through out the story, you want Amir to make the right decisions and time and time again he disappoints. You want him to realize what a wonderful and pure person he has devoted to him in Hassan. But will that realization come too late? “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
I urge anyone who has not read this book yet to add to your TBR pile.
