Spinning Yarns
by Ben Huberman
What makes a good storyteller, in your opinion? Are your favorite storytellers people you know or writers you admire?
Good story writers are like friends you want to meet time and again.
With the first few lines you are hooked. You can’t put the book down. You want to read till you finish the book. You cry, and laugh with the characters.
When I used to find books like those, I couldn’t tear myself away till I finished them. If it was a sad ending, it was a burden on my heart. It happened when I read “My Sister’s Keeper”, and “Gone With the Wind”.
I had gone into a second hand book shop in Rawalpindi. I wanted some books to keep me company when I was sitting, waiting for my (late)husband R’s chemo to be over. I was not finding books according to my taste, and I had only ten minutes to find anything. The shop keeper handed me a book by Umera Ahmed. It was “The Perfect Mentor”.
He told me, “you are going to love this book. You are going to come again, and again to buy more of her books.”
And I wound up buying all her books.
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Books can certainly be good company in hard times. I don’t know how I would have made it through high school and the last years of my dad’s life without a story to get lost in.
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With the help of books I got through the most difficult period (my husband dying), in front of me. I used to dull the pain to get lost in books.
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Books can be our best friends at the best and worst of times.. nice post … and good to be moved by an author so as to buy all books authored by the person….
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Thank you Aruna. Umera Ahmed is one of the best, and I wish more of her books are translated into English as to reach a wider audience. Only two of her books are available in English.
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Which are they? And where are you from, if I may ask? I am from India.
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One book is “The Perfect Mentor” translated from Peer-I-Kamil in Urdu. There is a free download of it on Google. About the other one, I am not sure about the name.
I live in Houston. My other home is in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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