This thread stimulated m’ interest, ...this blurb seals it:

Link: http://www.book-club.co.nz/books03/8kiterunner.htm

~~”What is so satisfactory about The Kite Runner is that the pain and the hurt is never sentimentalized and brushed away. The damage done in childhood causes irreversible scars that aren't magically made to disappear. There is no Hollywood sunset ending. Reconciliation and redemption is never easy. But there is hope, a hope that is tinged with the sadness of so much destruction - insane political destruction on a grand scale and on a personal scale, the destruction of one unique and precious friendship.”~~

& the notion of a book coming just after an umpteenth late evening viewing of

The Crossing Guard over th’ past some odd years,

...feels like “no coincidences” furthur perpetuated....

[Celestine even...]

...looks like i’m just about a few dayz away from a new cd & dvd to brood over

& another good book to read....