bubblegumgoods: Super Moon

The accountant and I took this from Kohimarama Beach, isn't she gorgeous?

bubblegumgoods: Masterpiece Theater

There was a time in my life when my dad would turn on Masterpiece Theater and I would be bored before the trumpets finished playing the opening chorale.  Thankfully, I have matured enough to appreciate how amazingly awesome Masterpiece Theater is.

I recently watched the MT adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and I LOVED it! I mean, how handsome is grown up Pip?

What I have found most fascinating about this film is that it exposes everyone to Dickens.  For example, my parents watched it (my mom watched it twice) and suddenly we are all talking about how tricky Dickens's plot was and how Ms Havisham was such a disturbed lady.  I think it's amazing that a film can unlock so many timeless characters to those who might not otherwise know of them.

Oh what a day

It's getting cold in New Zealand...sigh.

I am having one of those days where all I want to do is come home sit in an amazing bathtub full of bubbles until  my feet turn into prunes and read about the great Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy.

Unfortunately, I don't have a bathtub.  But, I do have a  Mr Darcy.

bubblegumbooks: The Kite Runner

This book review is brought to you by two days Facebook free. Hopefully this will be my most productive month ever.

I have heard rumors of The Kite Runner long before I have actually mustered up the courage to read the book.  I always knew that this was a heavy read although I have completely underestimated how this book stays with you and encompasses all of your thoughts. 

The Kite Runner follows the lives of two boys in Kabul Afghanistan, the boys are Amir and Hassan.  Hassan is Amir's servant, but the boys are inseparable and are more like brothers than a servant to a master.  When Hassan is brutally bullied by some of the boys in the neighborhood, he spends the rest of his adult life on a heatbreaking journey to redeem himself from betrayal. 

Although all of this book is haunting, I feel the passage below is the most profound and yet obvious passages in the book:

"There is only one sin, only one.  And that is theft.  Every other sin is a variation of theft.  When you kill a man, you steal a life...you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father.  When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.  When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.  If there's a God out there, then I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork."

I think about this passage regularly since I have read this book.  Maybe it's because I think we are so obsessed with what appears right or wrong in terms of "drinking scotch or eating pork" that we are willing to rob each other of the things that are more important in an effort to keep up appearances.

I give this book 5 Facebook free days out of 5.  Khaled Hosseini is an amazing storyteller, I could not put this book down once I started reading it.