Esmy's Book Blog Week 1

Week 1 - March 17 - 18, 2011

Give the title, author, publisher, copyright date, genre (how do you know the genre - from the back of the book, the title page, the text?), a description of the cover of the book, and the main character(s) you have met so far and on what page you first met them.


Hello, I'm reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It was published by The Penguin Group in 2007. The genre is realistic fiction, I know this because it seems like it might happen in life. I know this because the religion in the middle east are different from ours. When they get married, the woman could be 10 years old and the man could be around 40. I found this information in the back of the title page.

The cover look like a woman staring off to a city in Afghanistan called Kabul. She is looking towards the mountains as if she were thinking.The colors of the book is like a shade of redish orangish at the mountains and seems like its turning bluer and bluer. There are a lot of clouds around the city. The woman is standing on what seems to be a hill and she is wearing a brown shawl and hiyab. You can't see her face you could only see her back. The time of day seems to be around the morning. I would soo pick up this book based upon its cover mostly because it says 'A novel by the author of The Kite Runner' which is a fantastic book.

The main characters that I've met so far is Mariam and Nana. I met both of them on page 1. I met them just straight on from the book. Mariam seems to be shy and innocent. Nana seems like she wants revenge on someone and she isn't afraid to say what she is thinking. I met Jalil ( Mariams' dad) on page 4. I honestly don't like him at all (you'll have to read the book to see what I mean). He seems like a backstabber and selfish. I met Rasheed ( Mariams husband) on page 46. He is an awkward man per say.