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MEDIA: Fryer To Colbert: "You're Black Now, Aren't You?" Harvard University professor of economics Roland Fryer analyzes racial inequality and has published papers on topics like the consequences of having a distinctively black name, and “acting white.” He is a junior fellow in the HarvardEmily Lazar st...

An Epic "Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is another bestseller by Khaled Hosseini after The KiteRunner. The book is set in Afghanistan and captures devastation that war and unleashes on this land of ‘ thousand splendid suns’. The book gives a vivid account of the turmoil, unrest and hope through its characters and plot.

Image by royal19 via Flickr Morning/afternoon/evening fellow readers - how is your readathon going? I stopped reading just after 8pm last night, watched some Saturday TV then headed to bed, hoping to awaken refreshed and ready for the final straight this morning.

A Thousand Splendid Suns Rating 5 stars - an unforgettable epic of destruction, love and hope A Thousand Splendid Suns is about… Life in Afghanistan spanning forty years; the destruction of war and of a fierce love that brings with it hope of a better life.

There's nothing much left of the Republican Party's Grand Coalition other than the racists, pre-Renaissance religionist fanatics, anti-Semites, and bailed-out bankers. As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead.

If you haven't already fallen in love with Mr. Hosseini through his words at BEA 2008 ("And if that writer were a woman, it would be so much sweeter for me... I'll accept this award as her proxy"), maybe this will do it.As a secular Muslim, I too was offended. Obama's middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels.

The author of The Kite Runner has the courage and confidence to raise a necessary issue: The anti-Muslim incitement that has become part of the Republican campaign against Obama: Twice last week alone, speakers at McCain-Palin rallies have referred to Sen. Barack Obama, with unveiled scorn, as Barack Hussein Obama.

The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film by David Benioff, Marc Forster and Khalid Hosseini Publisher: Newmarket (January 30, 2008 ) Hardcover: 144 pages ISBN-13: 978-1557048042         The Kite Runner: A Portrait of the Marc Forster Film is a movie book, based on the film of the same

Those who have read ‘The Kite Runner’ will agree with me on the exceptional storytelling abilities of Khaled Hosseini. In ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ Hosseini does a role reversal. This time it’s a female protogonist, rather two of them.