Fair’s Fair “For Book Lovers”

Yesterday, I wandered around Fairsfair on 17th Ave. and 14th St in Calgary, AB, and noted that there are like-new copies of Kite Runner and Half of a Yellow Sun for half-price there. The three other Fairsfair stores likely have copies as well. I’ve blogged about these two works before, and both are such spellbinding reads that I keep telling everyone I see to read them. The movie Kite Runner is okay, but the book is a lot more heartwrenching and opens to places that many of us will likely never see. For anyone wanting to expand beyond regional literature or sci. fi. into understanding what is going on in the global world these books are a great starting point. Half of a Yellow Sun received the Orange Broadband Prize and was listed as Best Book in the Globe and Mail. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author, is extremely young–still in her twenties when she wrote this book–but the insight and depths are that of an extremely mature person. Give them a read and e-mail to tell me what you think about them.