I also read a really great book called "Kite Runners" which was on the best sellers list. It is an historical fiction that depicts a boy growing up in Afghanistan and how the war affected his family. It has amazing writing and really made me understand what it was like for this boy. It has a lot of emotion--not something to read when you want to just curl up and enter another world, but very good and worth the effort.
I was
supposed to have read this a few weeks ago for my YA class, but didn't find it till a week after the class in which we discussed it, and now have no time to make it up. So it sits on my shelf. But I intend to read it.
(And for the literal-minded, it's
The Kite Runner.
)
I liked
Rose Daughter well enough, but I still think
Beauty was a better version. Robin McKinley really didn't have to improve upon it, though it's an intriguing idea to rewrite yourself 20 years later. What really annoys me every time, however, is that the name of one of the sisters in
Rose Daughter is the name of the HORSE in
Beauty. Which confused me no end coming back to it and trying to refresh myself on it for a paper, because I thought I'd written about RD when I'd actually written about Beauty.