digital camera: check. backup roll of t.p.: check. malarial prophylactic: check. French dictionary: check. 6600 miles from home. 60 pounds of luggage. 2 years, 11 weeks. Burkina Faso. Africa. Peace Corps. Welcome!
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera
My Secret History - Paul Theroux
The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer
Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
Looking for Lovedu - Ann Jones
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
The Old Patagonia Express - Paul Theroux
What am I Doing Here - Bruce Chatwin
The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
Children of Jihad - Jared Cohen
Utz - Bruce Chatwin
The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
White Man's Grave - Richard Dooling
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
The End of Poverty Jeffrey Sachs
The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Savage Inequalities - Jonathon Kozol
Gideon's Trumpet - Anthony Lewis
Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
Fresh Air Fiend - Paul Theroux
A Man of the People - Chinua Achebe
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
1985 - Anthony Burgess
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Plainsong - Kent Haruff
Down the River - Edward Abbey
The Blind Side - Michael Lewis
Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
Eventide - Kent Haruf
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (english ed.)
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Why I Write - George Orwell
Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (french ed.)
The Partner - John Grisham
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'brien
Jailbird - Kurt Vonnegut
The Stranger - Albert Camus
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Alaska - James Michener
We Are All the Same - Jim Wooten
Light in August - William Faulkner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
1984 - George Orwell
Profit Over People - Noam Chomsky
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
The other best of 2007
Here are some more photos that struck my fancy. I hope they strike your's as well. To see more photos that didn't make the cut, check out my Super Cool Album.
Your writing is awesome! I'm *hopefully* leaving for PC in June (region: subsarahan w. francophone africa) and I was purusing the internet for blogs--thank you for your awesome stories!!! Enjoy your time home and best to you as you finish your service!
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Your writing is awesome! I'm *hopefully* leaving for PC in June (region: subsarahan w. francophone africa) and I was purusing the internet for blogs--thank you for your awesome stories!!! Enjoy your time home and best to you as you finish your service!
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