Book 7

Title: Birds Without Wings
Author: Louis De Bernieres
Pages: 554

Favorite Vocab Words: Mommixity and Foofaraw

Favorite Part: When Leyla cooks a romantic dinner for Rustem Bey and puts candles on the backs of turtles so they wander around the yard while they are eating.

Favorite Quote: "When he tells her that she's lazy, she adopts an arch expression, laughs, and says, 'Me? I'm not lazy, I'm just passionate about leisure.'"

Favorite Character: Karatavuk

Thought-provoking part: There is a religious ceremony where they dig up the bones of their relatives after 5 years. If they are completely decomposed it means the earth has received them and therefore they lived an innocent life. If they have not decomposed it means they were sinful.

Favorite list: (Listing the different types of people he found in a town.) "Here there were pimps and whores, card-sharps, confidence tricksters, counterfeiters, cutpurses and pickpockets, one-legged blind alcoholics, opium addicts, unemployable sailors, abortionists, charlatans, fortune tellers, sexual deviants, poison-makers, false prophets, beggars with sham disabilities, prodigal sons and dissolute daughters, deserters, contract murderers, illegal distillers, foul-mouthed sluts, footpads, procurers, tax officials and thieves."

Misc: This book helped me understand and learn a lot about World War I.