I am really excited to read The Cairo House in this class, because one of my friends read it a while back, and recommended it to me. Of course, since it was a recent recommendation, it was at the bottom of my seemingly never-ending list of books I would like to read. It is a good thing we have to read it for class, because that bumped it to the top of the list. So far, I really like it.
I really relate to the part when Gigi sneaks out to watch the lamb sacrifice and ends up getting freaked out, slipping in blood, and being knocked unconscious. It totally sounds like something I would do out of curiosity and then end up seriously screwing up and getting caught. I hope that I can continue to relate to Gigi throughout the rest of the book, because I love it when I am reading and can relate to a character, particularly the main character.
Overall, I am also just excited for this unit in general. As I might have mentioned before, I am in the Religion and Incarceration seminar, and tonight we actually had our meeting and discussion that relates to the topic of Islam in prisons and serves as a preview to the speakers that we will hear from next Tuesday. I like it when two of my classes happen to relate to one another, because then I can apply what I learned in one to the other, and things become so much more clear when there are a few topics that I basically learn twice.