A thousand suns whatever

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

I have got to where she is married off.

Quite frankly I am finding it hard going - do I persist or call it a day ?

SO she has not befriended the young girl? Their relationship is the main storyline.

I would persist, not my favourite book but I did enjoy it.

I called it a day.

I havn't got to the befriending bit yet.

Got cross with nana with being so 'wet' and then topping herself, so plodded though the next few chapters.

I didn't like this book as much as I would have hoped. Thought the literature was average. Author told the story rather than showed the story. The plot/storyline was very good though

Try the Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Sierbaad (??) which gives you a much better idea about a real woman's lot in present day Afghanistan. Very readable about a bookseller's family, seen from the inside as the author moved in and lived with them. With A Thousand Splendid etc I felt it was a man writing and he was always a couple of steps removed from seeing things from a woman's perspective. Even though the plot was reasonably plausible, I was very conscious it was fiction.