Reading Respones 1

I was reading a book titled A Suitable Boy. In the pages I read I could figure out that the book was set in India in 1950's. The characters that I was introduced to were a girl that was 19, that was attending her sister’s wedding. Her mother, niece, best friend, and brother-in-law were also introduced in the first few pages. The activity taking place was the 19 year old girl was talking with different people at her sister’s wedding.

I had a special connection with this scene in this book. I have a good friend from Pakistan that got married this past summer. Pakistan culture is much like in India and my friend; Sumiya's wedding was a perfect reflection of the wedding in this book. But only Sumiya was the bride and the point of view in A Suitable Boy was the brides' sister. After reading this I had a mixed emotion of bitter sweetness because it reminded me of Sumiya and me miss her, but I am so happy for her getting married.

Although I really enjoyed reading the beginning of A Suitable Boy, I would not

Recommend this book to everyone. It was a book that you have to be interested in the culture of India. I stopped reading this book after I read the first chapter because it just did not put me in like I want a book to. It was also a very large book and I found myself not curious about what might happen.

Since this book I was started reading The Memory Keeper’s Daughter. I have already read around four chapters out of this book. I love the descriptions and it is absolutely mesmerizing. The connection the author makes with human emotion is rich and satisfying.

 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a story of a baby girl that was cast out of a family because of her disease, Down syndrome. David, a doctor, and Norah, a pregnant house-wife, is a typical married couple in the 1960’s. Till the night of Norah’s birth to her two twin babies. Norah, David, and Nurse Caroline’s lives are transformed to never be the same.