The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

For this quarter, I have chosen to read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Truthfully, I've never really been the type that is interested in modern stories around the world. Being raised up in a slightly sheltered society, I have been perfectly content with reading American and, on the occasion, English authors. Every so often, I get the pleasure of reading something quite different than what I am used to and I think The Kite Runner will be one of those books. It's a book I've wanted to read ever since one of my English teachers recommended it. Unfortunately, with such rules like no reading the same book as someone else in the class and criteria that have been put on my choice of outside reading books, I have been unable to pick up this bestseller. So now, finally, I have the opportunity to read a book that has stuck with so many others who have come to read it ahead of me. I have the chance to break outside of my sheltered world and learn about a time and place when not everything feels safe and sound.