Post trip

Books Pam has completed since we returned from the trip:

Related to places we visited:

• How to Walk a Puma, by Peter Allison (South America) – June 26, 2013
• Dream of the Celt, by Mario Vargas Llosa (Ireland/Easter Rising, Peru, Africa/Congo) – July 13, 2013
• The Fugitive Wife, by Peter Brown (Alaska/Gold Rush) – July 22, 2013
• The Mapmaker’s Wife, by Robert Whitaker (colonial Ecuador) – August 20, 2013

Related to Twitching:

• The Birder’s Companion, by Stephen Moss – July 1, 2013

Non-fiction:

• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes – July 3, 2013 (Seth rec.)
• The Moral Landscape: How Science can Determine Human Values, by Sam Harris – July 7, 2013
• Speaking of Faith, by Krista Tippett  – July 8, 2013
• My Jesus Year, by Benyamin Cohen – July 9, 2013
• The Man Within My Head, by Pico Iyer (PICO IYER ON GRAHAM GREENE — HONESTLY, WHAT MORE COULD I ASK FOR) – July 31, 2013
• Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer – August 3, 2013
• Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death, by Bernd Heinrich (who is to biology what Dervla Murphy is to travel memoir) – August 7, 2013
• Reflections on the Psalms, by CS Lewis – August 12, 2013
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick (Amira rec) – August 14, 2013
• The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, by Pico Iyer – August 19, 2013
• This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, ed. by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman – August 21, 2013
• Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, by Carlos Eire – September 4, 2013

Fiction:

• Mortal Bonds, by Vatsala Warrier (WL rec) (Oy.) – July 4, 2013
• Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver – July 5, 2013
• And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini (EGD BG) – July 6, 2013
• Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout – July 25, 2013
• The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson (North Korea) – July 27, 2013
• Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald (EGD BG) – July 28, 2013
• The Known World, by Edward Jones (EGD BG) August 2, 2013
• A Pigeon and a Boy, by Meir Shalov  (Palmach/Israel) – August 10, 2013
• Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell (August 18, 2013)
• The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers (Iraq) – August 20, 2013
• Hotel of the Saints, by Ursula Hegi (short stories) – August 24, 2013

 

My reading list from September 2013 onwards is continued in my new blog, fragmentstofugues.com.