All about my summer reading.

In AP Lit we had to write about which books out of the list we liked the most. I read The Kite Runner, 1984 and Jane Eyre, so here's my answer in response to the prompt:

After reading The Kite Runner this summer, I have a new favorite book. I'm not sure how it is for other people my age, but I tend to blur the goings-on in the Middle East together. I don't stay informed about our troops, or what battles are being fought and where, etcetera. After I read the book and asked my extremely intelligent dad a few questions about the history of the Taliban in Afghanistan, I have a completely new perspective and appreciation for the individual country. I absolutely love Hosseini's development of Amir and Hassan; that is one aspect of a book that is very important to me when I read. I want to be able to relate to the characters. I want to feel what they feel, and I felt that Hosseini did a profoundly excellent job of doing just that. When I read Gone With the Wind, I would have to skip over paragraphs of dull explanations of what was going on in the Civil War. In The Kite Runner, I was more than happy to become more informed of the history of Afghanistan and the impact it had on a not-so-regular family. In short, I absolutely loved it and couldn't put it down.

Besides The Kite Runner I re-read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in preparation for the upcoming movie release. I love the Harry Potter series for the same reasons I love other books- by the end of the 7th book, you know Harry almost as well as he knows himself. I have been reading the Harry Potter series since the first book was released, and I felt like I watched Harry grow up throughout the series. Besides the characters, Rowling is an absolutely incredible storyteller. Even though I've read the series a million times, the books still completely capture me when I read them.