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large pillar (center right) - 3"x7", burns up to 100 hours
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About This Candle One of our most popular candles, friendship is also one of our most visually stunning. It's an ideal gift between friends, and makes an absolutely wonderful hostess gift. Softly scented with lily of the valley, the rose quartz crystal is a stone of heart to heart connection. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Friendship zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 3/28/2005
by Khaled Hosseini (Hardcover - 2004)
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From Amazon.com: In his debut novel, The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do. He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country's political turmoil--in this case, Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. And he does this on his first try.
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule. ("...I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.")
Some of the plot's turns and twists may be
somewhat implausible, but Hosseini has created characters that seem so real
that one almost forgets that
The
Kite Runner is a novel and not a
memoir. At a time when Afghanistan has been thrust into the forefront of
America's collective consciousness ("people sipping lattes at Starbucks were
talking about the battle for Kunduz"), Hosseini offers an honest, sometimes
tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of a fascinating land.
Perhaps the only true flaw in this extraordinary novel is that it ends all too
soon.
2. The Dirty Girls Social Club : A Novel
by Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez (Paperback - 2003)
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From Amazon.com: The Dirty Girls Social Club closely resembles Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale: a handful of young women seek real love and job satisfaction. Unlike McMillan, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez has completely thrown out any literary pretensions whatsoever, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Dirty Girls is a fun, easy, ultimately charming read, not least because the girls themselves are so appealing. Six Latina women become fast friends at Boston University and thereafter meet as a group every few months. Now in their late twenties, they're each on the cusp of the life they want. The novel is narrated in turn by each woman. Feisty Lauren has a column at the Boston Globe, but can't help falling for losers; ghetto-elegant Usnavys is trying to find a man to match her own earning power and expensive tastes; uptight Rebecca is a successful magazine publisher and an unsuccessful wife; beautiful TV anchor Elizabeth has a secret; Sara leads a Martha-Stewart-perfect life as a homemaker; and Amber is a hopeful rock musician in L.A.
The novel works because Valdes-Rodriguez has compassion for her characters; each is faulted, but none is culpable. She also has an eye for the telling detail, as when Rebecca tries to befriend her white husband's stuffy family: "His sister took step classes with me and we shopped for clothes together on Newbury Street and went to the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum one afternoon with Au Bon Pain sandwiches in our handbags." Something about those sandwiches makes the whole enterprise seem more poignant. On the down side, Valdes-Rodriguez is so eager to make things work out for her ladies, her writing sometimes beggars belief. Men actually say things like "Swear to me you're happily married, and I'll stop pursuing you." Yes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is, in fact, the Latina Terry McMillan. That is, if McMillan were a slightly guiltier pleasure.
3. It's a Chick Thing : Celebrating the Wild Side of Women's Friendship
by Ame Mahler Beanland (Editor), et al (Paperback - 2000)
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From Amazon.com: A fabulously fun collection of spirited stories, scintillating sidebars, and oh-so-quotable quips, It's a Chick Thing pays homage to the special and unique times that strengthen the bonds of female friendships--the antics, escapades, and thrill seeking--as well as the loyalty, sisterly support, and irrepressible humor.
Read about Dolly Parton's "biker chick" escapades with her girlfriend gang, Hell's Belles; Diana and Fergie's hilarious night on the town during Prince Andrew's bachelor party; and the time Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn faced down the Coal Miner's Daughter's detractors. Meet women like Cirque du Chien, a pack of party-loving Francophiles who dress up like French poodles; La Bella Mafia, self-proclaimed divas who right wrongs and overdress for every occasion; and a bevy of sisters and friends who take over the backyard playhouse for parties and girl talk. Full of irreverent fun, candid observations, and shameless merrymaking, It's a Chick Thing is the perfect gift for each and every one of your best gal pals. Chickcentric lists include "Chicks Who Rock," "Chick Reads," "Chick Flicks," and "Chick Cliques." "Wonderful--a must read for all women of substance!" says Jill Conner Browne, author of The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love. "Smart. Sassy. Tons of Fun. It's a Chick Thing is my new best friend," says Cameron Tuttle, author of The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road.
1. Lost in Translation [SOUNDTRACK]
~ Various Artists (Audio CD) Original Release Date: 2003
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From Amazon.com: Sofia Coppola
has, with two elegant movies, proved herself a talented director with a keen
eye for interior life. She's also got great ears. For
Lost in Translation, the story of a
May-December friendship in Tokyo between two displaced Americans, the
score is a tonic for jetlag. Coppola
prescribes a dose of shoegazer pop, from My Bloody Valentine's chiming
"Sometimes" to Jesus & Mary Chain's fuzzed-out "Just Like Honey." The music
nails the hazy conscious state of actors Bill Murray (as a movie star with a
midlife crisis) and Scarlet Johansson (as an emotionally marooned
20something). It also provides a safe, warm envelope in which they can enact
their overseas adventures. Working with producer Brian Reitzell, whose band
Air scored her previous
Virgin Suicides, Coppola lured
Valentine's Kevin Shields into providing several slices of dreamy indie-rock
and sonic wallpaper, as stylish as it is formless. There's a welcome bit of
Japanese goofiness, a funhouse-mirror reflection of U.S. folk-rock courtesy of
early-1970s band Happy End. And a "hidden" track provides the audio of Murray,
in the film, doing his sleepy karaoke version of Roxy Music's "More Than
This."
2. Boys on the Side: Original Soundtrack Album [SOUNDTRACK]
Original Release Date: 1995
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From Amazon.com: There isn't one song or artist on this delicious album that doesn't belong with the others. Opening and closing with the moving "You Got It" performed by Bonnie Raitt, and with outstanding renditions of "Keep On Growing" (Sheryl Crow) and "Somebody Stand By Me" (Stevie Nicks), and including Melissa Etheridge's "I Take You With Me" and the Indigo Girls "Power Of Two," Boys on the Side is an album you'll want to hear over and over. You'll also be treated to the wonderful Annie Lennox performing "Why," The Pretenders, The Cranberries and Sarah McLachlan. It's a beautiful album, with which to relive the fun and the heartfelt friendships in the story of Boys on the Side, or just for the pure pleasure of all these incredible voices and talented musicians that really have something meaningful to say.
3. Mystic River (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK]
Original Release Date: 2003
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From Amazon.com: He's been an international movie star icon, successful producer, acclaimed director, and fervent jazz revivalist. But after years of cinemusic flirtations, Clint Eastwood finally adds "film scorer" to his already burgeoning resumé. Those familiar with his jazz affections and a laconic keyboard approach that seems to echo his very acting style won't be surprised by the elegantly moody "Main Title" he's composed for this character-driven drama. But the autumnal, minimalist, and post-modern influenced orchestral cues (performed with sympathetic grace by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus) Eastwood offers elsewhere here are yet another forceful example of an artist who's typically used his mainstream successes to leverage new creative challenges for himself. Kyle Eastwood (the film legend's son) offers up a jazzy coda to his father's bittersweet orchestral portrait with the playful, R&B bump of "Cosmo" and soulful "Black Emerald Blues."
(2003) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie (Walters, Billy Elliot) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren, Prime Suspect, Gosford Park) cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular, but the success may drive a wedge between the two women's friendship. Based on an actual event, Calendar Girls carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the calendar's media explosion, becoming a surprisingly moving fable of loss, determination, and the perils of fame. And let's face it--Helen Mirren is one of the wittiest and sexiest women alive, clothes on or not.
(2001) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Friendship can prove more complicated than romance. Me Without You follows two British girls from their 1970s preadolescence to contemporary adulthood. Holly (Michelle Williams, Dick), a shy Jewish girl with loving but bookish parents, grew up next to Marina (Anna Friel, The Land Girls), whose glamorous but unstable parents render her flamboyant but a mess inside. The girls form an alliance, each envying the other and finding solace in the relationship, but over time, they sabotage as much as support each other, sometimes at the same time. Both have an affair with a randy college professor (Kyle MacLachlan), but it's Holly's attraction to Marina's older brother Nat (Oliver Milburn) that, in the end, forces the women to redefine their lives. Me Without You is excellently performed and full of telling details. Though the heroines are often confused, the movie has a lucid clarity that is compassionate but open-eyed.
3. Chasing Amy
(1997) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com: Chasing Amy is the third installment in the "New Jersey Trilogy" from award-winning writer-director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma). Cult comic-book artist Holden (Ben Affleck) falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), only to be thwarted by her sexuality, the disdain of his best friend Banky (Jason Lee), and his own misgivings about himself. Filled with Smith's unique ear for dialogue and insight into relationships, Chasing Amy offers a thoughtful, funny look at how perceptions alter lives, and how obsession and self-doubt skew reality. | ||||||||||
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