actual overheard conversation: girl 1: "how long was your ride to site?" girl 2: "21 hours on the way there...24 on the way back, but that was only because of the bandits."
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Stephanie! I'm sitting here reading all your posts, trying to catch up on what your life's been like for the past month or so.... pretty hard to imagine your reality, but the pictures help! I'm so glad that things are going well. I will try to write to you on paper some day soon. i miss you lots!!! - caro
The Ever-so-popular "Books I've Read in Africa" List
A Long Way Gone-Ishmael Beah The Alienist-Caleb Carr The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S. Thompson Clock Without Hands- Carson McCullers Leaving Home- Garrison Keillor Beach Road- James Patterson A Time to Kill and The King of Torts- John Grisham The Honk & Holler Opening Soon- Billie Letts A Cry in the Night- Mary Higgins-Clark The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseini No Country for Old Men- Cormac McCarthy Gap Creek- Robert Morgan The Ladies' Number 1 Detective Agency- Alexander McCall-Smith Free Fall- Fern Michaels (possibly the worst book ever written!) Water for Elephants- Sara Gruen Invasion and Coma- Robin Cook K is for Killer- Sue Grafton Catcher in the Rye- Salinger The Myth of You & Me- Leah Stewart
also..funny/heartbreaking autobiographies, by males with questionable sexual status
Me Talk Pretty One Day- David Sedaris Running with Scissors- Augusten Burroughs A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius- Dave Eggers
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Stephanie!
I'm sitting here reading all your posts, trying to catch up on what your life's been like for the past month or so.... pretty hard to imagine your reality, but the pictures help! I'm so glad that things are going well. I will try to write to you on paper some day soon. i miss you lots!!! - caro
scary scary scary.
think about the goats.
sounds like something from Oregon Trail.
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