'Mariana Escobedo'

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Reviewed by: Mariana Escobedo 

a_thousand_splendid_suns.jpgKhaled Hosseini is a great writer who knows how to involve real life situations in the Middle East and adding a fictional story to keep you hooked.  This book is about a brutal husband who violates his two wives and their story of how they got away and survived the violence.  The story gives great detail of how a woman in that situation feels when she is going through all that violent drama while carrying another creature in her.  It’s an emotional book that keeps on rolling with surprises.

Khaled Hosseini also wrote The Kite Runner.  You can find both books in the Fiction section under FIC Hos. 

Othello by William Shakespeare

othello.jpgReviewed by Mariana Escobedo

I read Othello in my AP Literature class first semester and it has become one of my top pieces of writing so far. It’s based on jealousy and the perceptions of interracial relationships. Othello, the so-called leader of Cyprus, who is also a moor, calls Cassio to be his head Lt. instead of Iago. Iago seems to be a great man to everybody’s face but betrays every single person he interacts with, including his wife. He makes Othello believe that his faithful wife is cheating on him with his partner Casio. This of course is all a lie. Throughout the play Iago makes little remarks about Othello’s wife and Casio being togehter and by the end of the play, Othello goes nuts. He ends up killing his loving wife then realizing the truth and hating himself so much that he kills himself. It’s a great love story gone bad.

Find all of Shakespeare’s works in the nonfiction section under 822.3 Sha.