So I didn't get the new Douglas Coupland book. Instead I went to Sephora and spent money there, and somehow I ended up with $30 in my checking account. I don't know how.

I did, however, just finish a wonderful book called Sister of My Heart. So so good. It was really kind of a criticism of the gender inequality that has been going on in India for so many years. Like if a woman's husband dies, she isn't supposed to remarry, ever, because it's thought that her bad luck brought about the death of her husband. However, if a man's wife dies, he can remarry as soon as a year later. It really brought all of these injustices to the surface, and even though the book wasn't really like another book I read this year, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, it was somewhat similar in the way it discussed how women are/were treated. The thing that I didn't like about Snow Flower, though, is that the women in the book never bother to ask themselves if how they're being treated is fair. They just accept it, which I guess is normal, but I couldn't get behind that aspect.

I should also mention that I have no idea what the role of women is in India currently. I'm sure that in the more modernized areas things are a lot different than they are in the remote villages. I thought I'd mention that before I got any angry emails.

So now I'm wondering what to read next. I have The Namesake and Brick Lane, both of which are by Indian authors, because I seem to be on an Indian kick. And I know that The Namesake was made into a movie, but movie versions of books really do not interest me that much.