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Adventures of a Retired Armchair Traveler
Created on 2004-04-26 23:13:32 (#2966590), last updated 2009-11-27
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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
Nelson Mandela: Long Road to Freedom
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun
Books I purposely didn't finish
Amy Tan: The Bonesetter's Daughter
David Gilmour: Film Club
Books I finished:
2009
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Purple Hibiscus
D. Farah and S. Braun: Merchant of Death - Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible
Gerard Kaplan: The Betrayal of Africa
Giles Bolton: Africa Doesn't Matter
Mary Roach: Bonk
Elizabeth Pisani: Wisdom of Whores
Philippe Sands: Torture Team
John Updike: The Centaur
Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma
Vikram Chandra: Love and Longing in Bombay
Thrity Umrigar: The Space Between Us
Jose Eduardo Agualusa: Book of Chameleons
2008
Andre Brink: Looking on Darkness
Rob Gifford: China Road
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Bill Bryson: Shakespeare
Jon Evans: The Blood Price
Ann Patchett: Bel Canto
Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth
Jim Shepard: Like You'd Understand, Anyway
Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
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:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Thing Around Your Neck
Howard French: A Continent for the Taking
Gerard Prunier: Africa's World War
Aravind Adiga: Between the Assassinations
Thomas Turner: The Congo Wars
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
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
Thomas Lynch: The Undertaking
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