Good Reads

So I really enjoy learning about other cultures and places, so for the past year or so, I've been searching out books that will teach me something about somewhere new. Luckily, these sorts of books seem to be popular with the rest of the world recently too - so it isn't too hard to find a good piece of fiction that will teach you something new!

I just finished reading "Three Cups of Tea" - a book along those same lines, but instead of a novel, a nonfiction account of the work of Greg Mortensen and the Central Asia Institute in building schools in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was a great book with a different perspective on two countries that we are generally influenced to fear/despise in America - I would highly recommend reading it! (Other awesome books: The Poisonwood Bible, The Power of One, A Thousand Splendid Suns... annnnd lots more)