April 30, 2008 "Shadow Spinner"

I just began to read the book "Shadow Spinner," by Susan Fletcher. In the beginning it starts out with a girl named Marjan who lives with her aunt and uncle. She is partially crippled on one of her legs. At the beginning her aunt goes to the Sultan's harem to sell jewelary to the ladies there. The only thing that was on her mind was to meed the bride of the Sultan, Shahrazad. Shahrazad was like a role model to Marjan because she had stopped all the killings of the Sultan for about two years now. The Sultan's first wife had cheated on him so he was so hurt with anger that he started killing off everyone lady he married. Everynight he would kill his bride, but Shahrazad was able to stop the killings by telling the Sultan stories before bed time and not finishing them. Then he would let her live so he could hear more stories.