Before we get to discussing The Kite Runner (which will be next week so you all need to finish the book this weekend!) I thought we could set up the vote for April's book. Now Kimberly picked March's book because she was the ONLY one who voted...so lets try and make it more exciting this time around.
How do we do that, you may ask?? Nominate the book you would like to read for April. It is VERY easy- simply add a comment to this post and type the name of the book you want to read, voting goes until Monday the 31st at midnight. Whichever book has the highest amount of votes will be the one we read.
Now those of you out there who are not reading the books, maybe it is because you aren't interested in or don't like that particular book. Well then nominate one that you would like to read and ...bam... problem solved! :)
Friday, March 28, 2008
Let's try this again...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
March 2008: The Kite Runner
It looks as if this bookgroup has the same problem with elections that the US has: voter turnout. Well we did have one vote (thanks Kimberly) and so we will be reading The Kite Runner for the month of March.
As for the 'rating' of the book which some of you asked about, I went to Internet Movie Database to see what the film was rated (it was released in December) and this is their rating: Rated PG-13 for strong thematic material including the rape of a child, violence and brief strong language. You can see their entire detailed movie page here. And this is a link to a discussion on the age-appropriateness of the book - it gives you a little better idea of what is in there.
If you want to read more about the book you can go here and see a plot synopsis, etc... Not that I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, and I usually don't condone it's use but the site seems to have some good information about the book - !!BEWARE!! there will be spoilers on both this and the IMDB site.
I have read this book before and there is a scene where a young boy is raped, there is some violence and there is some talk of war (it is set in Afghanistan). It is a sad book, and will tug at your heartstrings.
Leave a comment if you plan on reading the book (to get a 'body count') and plan on coming back to post your opinions on the book starting Tuesday April 1, 2008. - As well as to vote for April's book.
