Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
The Fault In Our Stars, John Green, ISBN 9780141345659 (Penguin). BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
If you have read the book, go and see the film which is on in Bahrain at the moment. If you have seen the film, then do read the book which is wonderful and sitting proudly at the top of the bestseller charts.
Don’t be put off by the storyline being about teenagers with cancer; it truly is a book for all ages and when you reach the last page, you will be a better person for having read it.
‘I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once’.
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous cancer survivor named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling and tragic business of being alive and in love and the impact that terminal illness has on those left behind.
* Read it now in paperback
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Helen Fielding, ISBN 9780099590330 (Random House) BD4 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members.
This is the current number two bestseller in the charts, now out in paperback.
Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as getting married after two meetings and six months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day?
Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and rediscovering life in what some people rudely and outdatedly call ‘middle age’.
Mad About The Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and oh, so funny ….
* My favourite read-of-the-week
And The Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury, 9781408842454 BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members.
From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns comes another elegantly written and deeply moving epic.
Spanning three continents and 60 years, this saga of heartache, hope and, above all, the unbreakable bonds of love is to my mind his most heartbreaking tale to date.
Set in war-torn Afghanistan, 10-year-old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister, Pari. In a life of poverty and struggle, with no mother to care for them, she is the only person who brings Abdullah happiness.
For her, he will trade his only pair of shoes to give her a feather for her treasured collection. When their father sets off with Pari across the desert to Kabul in search of work, Abdullah is determined not to be separated from her.
This truly is a beautifully written novel which will tear at your heartstrings but you will enjoy every page as you are swept along.
