{suggestions...}

Now that we have read our first book, it is time to start thinking about what our second will be! Everyone find a book that you think will be perfect for our next book and bring a blurb about it. We will draw straws for who will pick our next book and host the next book club event! 


I will provide the drinks and snacks...Just bring your book {A thousand Splendid Suns}, your suggestion, and yourself!


Jill, Ava is more than welcome to join us ladies for the afternoon...I will make sure there is plenty of things to keep her happy! 


Can't wait to see what you all thought about Mariam Jo and Laila Jo's lives! 

Ah! How beautiful is Kabul encircled by her arid mountains

And Rose, of the trails of thorns she envies

Her gusts of powdered soil, slightly sting my eyes

But I love her, for knowing and loving are born of this same dust

My song exhalts her dazzling tulips

And at the beauty of her trees, I blush

How sparkling the water flows from Pul-I Bastaan!

May Allah protect such beauty from the evil eye of man!

Khizr chose the path to Kabul in order to reach Paradise

For her mountains brought him close to the delights of heaven

From the fort with sprawling walls, A Dragon of protection

Each stone is there more precious than the treasure of Shayagan

Every street of Kabul is enthralling to the eye

Through the bazaars, caravans of Egypt pass

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs

And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls

Her laughter of mornings has the gaiety of flowers

Her nights of darkness, the reflections of lustrous hair

Her melodious nightingales, with passion sing their songs

Ardent tunes, as leaves enflamed, cascading from their throats

And I, I sing in the gardens of Jahanara, of Sharbara

And even the trumpets of heaven envy their green pastures