A Handful of Books

Pray for Salvation!
Greetings lovely sisters! I apologize for my delinquency. Though Bookseller isn't fresh in my mind as it were a couple months ago when i should have posted, the overall theme and some vivid images remain intact. I definately enjoyed the read and found the writing smooth and rather soothing given the simply agonizing content. To fathom the world she entered exists not in ancient times, but simultaneous to our own current experience is utterly devestating to my own personal concept of freedom and independence. I found myself urging characters to push beyond their give circumstances, for the women to scratch, scream, or somehow slay the demons which possessed them. It seemed they should want to Escape the miserable submissive existence they apparently accepted. But to where?... Kite Runner also allowed us readers to delve into the rampant ugliness and despair of Afghanistan. While the latter book did not focus much on the female experience in particular, both of them were very effective devices for dispelling any myths of paradise in the Middle East. The beasts who hold the reigns of control seem destined to an inevitable doom. And the common people have nothing save their sense of religious worth and familial ties. There is a sense of excitement actually with both stories- because the situations seem to be so sordid and horrific, nothing short of complete genocide could make life any worse. So an impending revolution simmers. Deep from the hearts of those who have survived without blood on their hands must surface a strength and strategy to right the wrong. May peace and positive change come to those people who have suffered so so much. What more can one expect from a book than to have it absorbed into the bloodstream of everyone who reads it. And from both of these comes the knowledge of horror and the pulsing dream of redemtion and perhaps someday- Justice.