Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is an excellent first novel; in fact it is difficult to remember at times that this is a novel and not an autobiography. Like the protagonist, Khaled grew up in Afghanistan in the 1970s. The novel’s depiction of the country and its people is enlightening, beautiful, harrowing and tragic. Its [...]

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Well funksters don’t always agree, which is often a good thing. How boring that would be!

Ed loved Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows while I liked it.  Some parts were great, but it many ways it felt like a too long goodbye.  Maybe I was supposed to feel the characters boredom and frustration in waiting to achieve their goals,

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