Our two day train ride ended up taking four days after a slight derailment. It's a good thing we weren't in a rush because we were able to just enjoy the view and excessive amount of french fries.
WELCOME TO CABO VERDE.
My life as I now know it.
BOOKS I'VE READ SINCE LEAVING THE STATES
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Worth It
- The Sign of Four/Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Definitely Worth It
- A Continent for the Taking - Howard W. French - Worth It
- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - Definitely Worth It
- God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy - Definitely Worth It
- Veronika Decides to Die - Not Worth It
- Brida - Paulo Coelho - Worth It
- Dead Spy Running - John Stock - Not Worth It
- The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson - Maybe Worth It
- Zorro - Isabel Allende - Worth It
- James Michener - The Source - Worth It
- Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita - Worth It
- Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson - Definitely Not Worth It
- Mortenson & Relin - Three Cups of Tea - Worth It
- Danny Danziger - Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Met - Worth It
- The Bible - Still reading...
- Philippa Gregory - The Virgin Queen - Worth It
- Richard Wright - Black Boy - Worth It
- Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild - Definitely Worth It
- Amos Oz - A Tale of Love and Darkness - Worth It
- Precious (Push) - Sapphire - Worth It
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - Worth It
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami - Worth It
- The Famished Road - Ben Okri - Almost Worth It
- World Without End - Ken Follet - Definitely Definitely Worth It
- You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers - Almost Worth It
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - Tucker Max - Amusing and highly disturbing at the same time
- She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb - Definitely Worth It
- Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver - Definitely Worth It
- Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs - Worth It
- Something Borrowed - Emily Griffin - Almost Worth It
- The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett - Definitely Definitely Worth It
- The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson - Worth It
- Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger - Definitely Worth It
- Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - Definitely Worth It
- A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson - Worth It
- Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen - Still Reading
- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova - Definitely Worth It
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Definitely Worth It
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - Worth It
- Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller - Worth It
- When You Are Engulfed In Flames - David Sedaris - Worth It
- Here on Earth - Alice Hoffman - Worth It
- Twilight Series - Stephanie Meyers -Almost Worth It
- And Here's The Kicker - Mick Sacks - Worth It
- Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - Definitely Worth It
- The Zookeepers Wife - Diane Ackerman - Worth It
- 1776 - David McCullough - Worth It
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut - Worth It
- Down The Nile - Rosemary Mahoney - Worth It
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl - Definitely Worth It
- The Final Solution - Michael Chabon - Worth It
- Villa Incognito - Tom Robbins - Definitely Worth It
- Love and Biology - Jennie Shortridge - Not Worth The Effort
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Definitely Worth It
- Following Christ in a Consumer Society (Still) - John F. Kavanaugh - Still Reading
- The Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Still Reading
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Not Worth The Effort
- The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto "Che" Guevara - Worth It
- The Orchid Theif - Susan Orlean - Not Worth The Effort
- Reason for Hope - Jane Goodall - Definitely Worth It
- Riding WIth the Queen - Jennie Shortridge - Worth It
- Love the One You're With - Emily Griffin - Not Worth The Effort
- The Awakening - Kate Chopin - Worth It
- Daisy Miller and Selected Short Stories - Henry James - Worth It
- Means with End: Notes on Politics - Giorgio Agamben - Worth It
- The Incredible Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - Definitely Worth It
- The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Travel - J. Piven & D. Borgenicht - Worth It
- Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins - Worth It
- Gold Cost - Nelson DeMille - Worth It/Trashtastic
- Cause Celeb - Helen Fielding - Not Worth The Effort
- The Tales of the Beetle Bard - JK Rowling - Worth It
- Dispatches from the Edge - Anderson Cooper - Worth It
- Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz -Definitely Worth It
- The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama - Worth It
- Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi - Worth Reading
- Nice Big American Baby - Judy Budnitz - Worth Reading
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith - Definitely Worth It
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - Worth It
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time - Dava Sobel - Definitely Worth It
- The Alibi - Sandra Brown - Trashtastic
- The River Runs Through It and Other Short Stories - MacLean - Definitely Worth It
- Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder - Definitely Worth It
- In Love and Trouble - Alice Walker - Worth It
- Play It As It Goes - Joan Didion - Worth It
- Into Africa - Martin Dugard - Definitely Worth It
- I Didn't Do It For You - Michela Wrong - Definitely Worth It
- Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - Definitely Worth It
- Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald- Worth it
- In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson - Worth it
- The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever - Worth it
- The Prince of Marshes - Rory Stewart-Worth it
- 451 Fahrenheit - Ray Bradbury - Definitely worth it
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen - Worth it
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - Worth it
- Emma - Jane Austen - Worth it
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Definitely worth it
- The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier - Not worth the effort
- Evening - Susan Minot - Not worth the effort
- High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Definitely worth it
- From Me To We - Craig and Marc Kielburger - Not worth the effort
- The Best American Non-Required Readings 2006 - David Eggers - Definitely worth it
- Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert - Not worth the effort
- Philippa Gregory - The Virgin Queen - Worth It
DISCLAIMER
About Me
- Lindsay
- BEFORE PEACE CORPS: Grew up in Oceanside, NY Boston College for Undergrad and Grad School Taught at the Heritage School in East Harlem, NYC for 3 years and lived on E. 50th. CURRENTLY: Live in Mindelo, S. Vicente Teaching English at UNICV-ISE
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