"My Sister's Keeper"

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By thirteen years old, she has undergone surgeries, transfusions, and shots with numerous side effects so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has infested her since childhood. Anna being a preimplantation genetic diagnosis a "test tube baby",she was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate,a life that she has never challenged until now for many different reasons. Anna has always been defined in terms of her sister and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and could have fatal consequences for her only sister that she truely loves and has been raised to save.
Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with wisdom and sensitivity. A novel that will pull at your heart strings until you cry and have you so involved in the story that you feel like you are there. A must read that you won't be able to put down and a story that will stay with you forever!

"The Kite Runner"

After reading the first few chapters of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" I was starting to wonder what this book had to offer. It started off with a very different theme than what my normal "reads" do and was unknown territory to me. How many of us can read a book about Afghanistan and understand why everything is like it is there? I never hear about this country unless its to deal with war topics! I am beginning to see that this place is not just a war zone, it's filled with people that have feelings and emotions just like us, inner demons and battles with oneself, victories and joys and that "The Kite Runner" is an excellent book based on very real events that occur in this country more often than you‘d think. 

It is very powerful and when I go to bed at night my mind is still stirring. A story of chasing a father's love, a best friend's loyalty, what is right and wrong and how everyone has a skeleton in their closet. I would recommend this to anyone with an open mind that looks for a novel with powerful haunting topics, vivid characters, a curiosity of other cultures, and the fight for redemption and inner peace. This book has pulled me in unlike I was ever expecting!!