{"id":604,"date":"2007-11-04T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T22:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/a-thousand-splendid-suns\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T22:48:30","slug":"a-thousand-splendid-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/a-thousand-splendid-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Splendid Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like facing reality.<\/p>\n<p>I read to escape from reality.<\/p>\n<p>A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a well-written book with an engaging story set in Afghanistan during the wars. But I couldn&#8217;t stand reading about the lives torn apart by atrocities of war, the sufferings of women in that culture, and the pain experienced from one generation to the next. I returned the book to my friend after I read about 1\/3 of the book. I did read the ending, so I won&#8217;t spoil it for you. I admit it is a very good book, and you might enjoy the drama as well as gaining a greater understanding of the Muslim culture and conflicts in Afghanistan. But I like to feel happy after I read. Please recommend me a book with adventure, laughter, silliness, and not too much reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like facing reality. I read to escape from reality. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is a well-written book with an engaging story set in Afghanistan during the wars. But I couldn&#8217;t stand reading about the lives torn apart by atrocities of war, the sufferings of women in that culture, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}