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| User: | congogirl (2966590)  Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler
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| Name: | congogirl | |||||
| Location: | Neutral Zone | |||||
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| Bio: |    I am the maintainer for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} expatsinafrica and hivnews. I co-moderate african_studies and machineknit. The Friends List Disclaimer: You are welcome to add me. Public entries are mostly about DR Congo, Africa, or select other topics. There are a lot of protected entries. If you introduce yourself, I will probably add you back and you will have access. If you do not introduce yourself, I probably won't. Books I started but haven't finished: Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope Cornell West: Race Matters Rob Gifford: China Road Books I purposely didn't finish Amy Tan: The Bonesetter's Daughter Books I finished: 2008 Andre Brink: Looking on Darkness 2007 Andrea Levy: A Small Island N'gugi wa Thiongo: The Wizard of the Crow Adam Roberts: The Wonga Coup Ann Patchett: Truth and Beauty Jennifer Baumgardner: Look Both Ways - Bisexual Politics Best American Short Stories 2006 Kang Chol-hwan: The Aquariums of Pyongyang Barbara Kingsolver: Small Wonder Barbara Kingsolver: High Tide in Tucson Andrea Levy: Fruit of the Lemon Ryszard Kapuscinski: Shadow of the Sun Jill Ker Conway: The Road From Coorain Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Deborah Copaken Kogan: Shutterbabe Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner Orhan Pamuk: Snow Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Petals of Blood Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost 2006 Joan Didion: Democracy Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking Edwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker Best American Essays of 2006 John LeCarre: The Mission Song Zadie Smith: On Beauty Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian E.M.Forster: A Passage to India Gayle Peterson: An Easier Childbirth* Ina May Gaskin: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth* Jamaica Kincaid: Mr. Potter Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran Audrey Niffenegger: The Time Traveler's Wife Bruce Chatwin: Songlines Jon Krakauer: Under the Banner of Heaven Aidan Hartley: The Zanzibar Chest Graham Greene: Travels with my Aunt *For the record, I am not expecting, but if you are, I would highly recommend Gaskin and highly NOT recommend Peterson. 2005 Lynne Duke: Mandela, Mobutu and Me (the Mobutu chapters) Dorothy Allison: Bastard Out of Carolina Kathryn Harrison: The Kiss Sandra Cisneros: Caramelo William Faulkner: The Wild Palms Dava Sobel: Galileo's Daughter Susan Vreeland: The Passion of Artemisia Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Joan Anderson: A Year By the Sea Haruki Murakami: The Windup Bird Chronicle VS Naipaul: A Bend in the River Ishmael Reed: Japanese By Spring Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher Ryu Murakami: In the Miso Soup Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London Aug-Dec 2004 Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code Pete Hamill: Snow in August Dai Sijie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Ha Jin: The Crazed Jane Hamilton: The Book of Ruth Nuala O'Faolain: My Dream of You Douglas Kennedy: The Pursuit of Happiness Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake Zadie Smith: The Autograph Man Books I'm going to read: D. Farah and S. Braun: Merchant of Death - Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible Bill Bryson: A short history of nearly everything Michael Chabon: Wonder Boys Graham Greene: The Quiet American; The Heart of the Matter; The Third Man Jamaica Kincaid: My Brother Arundhati Roy: The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile Caroline Elkins: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya Salman Rushdie: Shalimar the Clown Ronan Bennet: The Catastrophist Elif Shafak: The Bastard of Istanbul Nina Planck: Real Food: What to Eat and Why Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein: Plato and a Platypus walk into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Henrietta Moore: The Subject of Anthropology | |||||
| Memories: | 50 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||||
| Interests: | 74: alpaca, ashtanga, aubergine, bi bim bop, biking, bombo lumene, brazzaville, bukavu, canoeing, congo, constitutional referendums, cranberries, department of pool, development, documentaries, drop spindles, elections, equateur, fair trade coffee, french, french presses, goma, great lakes region, handcraft, hemp, hiking, hiv/aids, human rights, infectious disease, international health, istanbul, japan, kanji, kilims, kinshasa, knitting, la ngok, lake kivu, laphroaig, liboke, linen, lingala, malaria, masala dosa, mbandaka, merengue, merino wool, monkey pox, monuc, new orleans, news, nut brown ale, olympos, padgett station, phonetic alphabets, pili pili, pinot noir, pointe noire, politics, public health, refugees, sankuru, skol, spinning, sumak, sustainable development, taiko, the little rue, tofu, tom kha gai, travel, tshumbe, tuberculosis, turkish delight | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 134: adaon, afro76, alice_ayers, amalthya, angel80, apropos, aumtattoo, backburner, badgerbag, bellaunbound, bezigebij, billzbub, blockster, bluehairedmary, brbrbrad, brdgt, c_p_lew, chanphenglew, charlotterusse, chikuru, chriswaterguy, claudelemonde, coloradocrafter, comtefabu, crankyisgood, crazykellysexy, crepuscular_pen, damiandoyle, dandylionkats, dbond, delerium69, dlightful, dotcommom, dropfromeaves, dunesza, elyrie, evilvic42, expat_in_africa, fengi, filter_tips, flemmarde, flukycoda, formose_puer, freshgroundfemm, gamoonbat, girl_on_a_stick, goddess_of_art, goldenrationale, greencaped_k, grrlypainter, habibi, haleyos, i_get_stabby, imyourbob, indriya, isquiesque, iyara, jamezm, jen_sandwich, jessicaem, jinxremoving, jmtfoundling, junkmailblanket, karenkh, knitfix, knitting_nutter, kouredios, kulfuldi, lakeofmystery, lan_aimei, lapartera, lapsedmodernist, leftvegdrunk, lights_out, litzie, liznen, lizzymom, loreeley, lubaya, lucky13horizons, lvd_abroad_2006, maddmaxx, maria_sputnik, markeyisapunk, medyani, meteoricpath, miniscotty, mokey4, moonmidwife, mortuus, mr_quackenbush, mussare, my_small_space, myblackass, mysirensong, naturechicplus1, ninjacooter, nonitucker, noricum, nuhun_ruhu, olamina, onyourkneesboy, purplemoonstar, quantunmechanic, rare_exile, remsaverem, rezendi, rjhatl, ronaldphilip, saintpeg, sammka, scottytwohottie, shadyladycafe, shrimplette, springheel_jack, stayhuman_, stmaybe, sunlit_mists, thegarlicbite, ticklethepear, tinystrings, trochee, twotoedsloth, ulitave, vasco_pyjama, vjlove, warhol, whiskey_poptart, whythawk, wonderlanded, xmo, yanatonage, yiskah, yourfaults | |||||
| Also Friend of: | 40: amalbamako, angel_thane, avilaloca, benpayne, boomblast, cottontimer, cryptojournal, curstkate, diablevert13, differentghosts, dryaunda, fairoriana, fuzzyblue1977, hdshrnkngfin, jgrace, juicybuttmuncha, juxtapozition, kellyuganda, lady_black_swan, lamjura, lanay77, letsmakebelieve, lindito, liulang, ljrags, moon_happy, orbitstation, paddymac, pcupdate, rosaleen, sensibleshoes, shottashellz, spurredangel, themalau, thisnewyorksoul, tinceiri, tokkot, truna, tulipchica, twigaland | |||||
| Member of: | 45: 3faithdialogue, advanced_knit, african_studies, allthingsholga, ap_racism, ashtanga_yoga, barackobama, bitchesonbikes, blackhealth, blackhistory, cameraquestions, community_promo, congobookclub, deadmachinery, debunkingwhite, designersclub, doulas, expatriates, expats, expatsinafrica, foodbook, ghost_signs, global_nomads, hivnews, idfp2004, int_development, interracial, knitting, lautrefemme, machineknit, mylife_onceaday, paidmembers, public_health, refugeenews, rural_ruin, sex_and_race, stolen_election, sunscreen_fans, then_now, transfeminism, unassistedbirth, urban_flowerpot, uterionlegs, vintagephoto, yarnmarket | |||||
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