Tag Archives: Khaled Hosseini

Yule Time Giving: Afghan Refugee Fund

By Tracie | Published: September 1, 2009
Giveaway is now closed. Thank you to all who participated! The benefits of reading are boundless. Reading opens our imaginations, teaches us about new places, and provides hours of entertainment. Of all the books I’ve ever read, my favorite books are the ones that have made me look at the world in a different way and [...]
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Book into Movie: The Kite Runner

By Tracie | Published: June 15, 2009
The Kite Runner is about a young boy, Amir, who grows up in Afghanistan along side his servant friend, Hassan.  The boys grow up as brothers, but the divide among the classes and Amir’s own jealousy separate the two boys after a devastating event. The vivid imagery in The Kite Runner is told to us [...]
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Khaled Hosseini Introduces Quarterly Newsletter

By Tracie | Published: March 31, 2009
Khaled Hosseini, the author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has come out with a quarterly newsletter that features articles on his foundation, The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a Readers Section that highlights feedback from Hosseini’s readers, and Khaled’s Corner. The March newsletter focuses on the question that Khaled is asked most frequently [...]
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Book Review: The Kite Runner

By Tracie | Published: December 29, 2008
Very few times in my life has a book come along and changed me. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is one of those books. The Kite Runner is about a writer, Amir, who grows up in Afghanistan before the Taliban take over the country. Amir grows up with his servant’s son, Hassan. The two [...]
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