The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
Every time I read the title I find myself humming the words along to the theme of the Little Shop of Horrors. Which is both entirely inappropriate given the film topic vs book topic and also really annoying because the words don't fit properly and I have to rush them through to fit. Anyway, back to the actual book. I don't really enjoy reading books set in Afghanistan. I find myself stressed and on edge, waiting for the next awful thing to happen. But that doesn't necessarily mean I don't think they're good. A Thousand Splendid Suns, for example, was amazing. This one is ..... ok. It's kind of "Chick lit" set in a war zone, I guess. I was thinking it's a bit like if JoJo Moyes wrote a book set in the Middle East, but I've never read a JoJo Moyes book so I wasn't 100% sure. Then I noticed that on the cover it says, "As if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner". I've never read a Maeve Binchy either but I'm guessi...