- Shannon, showing off our “rolling pin” for making tortillas. We had homemade hummus and cooked eggplant for the fillings. There was, of course, no electricity.
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Books I’ve Read Here in the DR
- In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
- The Shack, William P. Young
- Why the Cocks Fight, Michele Wucker
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (only read half)
- Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
- Body Surfing, Anita Shreve
- Saving Fish from Drowning, Amy Tan
- Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie McDonald
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
- All Souls' Rising, Madison Smart Bell
- Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
- Naked, David Sedaris
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
- Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- Listening is an Act of Love, StoryCorps
- Life of Pi,Yann Martel
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
- Without Feathers, Woody Allen
- The Blind Assasin, Margaret Atwood
- The Beach, Alex Garland
- Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne
- When You are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
- Does it Look and Sound Like Jesus? Sermons from Big Canoe Chapel, James R. McCormick
- The End of Poverty, Jeffery Sachs
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
- Beast of No Nation, Uzodinma Iweala
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier
- Traveling Light, Max Lucado
- The Kennedy Curse, Edward Klein
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor ... and Yourself, Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larson
- The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larson
- Currently: The Dream Manager, Matthew Kelly
... Suggestions are welcome!
