Great Reading

I have been very fortunate. I have read some terrific books lately. I raved about A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, recommending it to everyone as the best book I've read in months. Then I picked up The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan. Wow! Another new author with another must read novel. I learned a great deal about different cultures overseas and here at home in both of these books (as I did in Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner). While I don't anticipate passing up new books by some of my favorite authors, after reading these works by Hosseini and Pradhan, I will certainly look for more titles by new writers -- and will certainly add these two to my favorite authors list.