Mary's Musings

One of the books I read this summer while flying back and forth from Allentown to Seattle was the book "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. It was the author's first published work, and I was intrigued by the subject matter.

The title itself drew me in because no notion of what a kite runner is would even come to mind. The closest thing I could relate to it was "drug runner" but I knew that could not be it.

At the prompting of my two daughters, I finally picked up "The Golden Compass", by Philip Pullman about two weeks ago. Now that Hollywood has produced a film based on the book, it has prompted some strong reaction from religious groups, and non-religious groups alike... all claiming that the author has some agenda throughout the story.