I love to read, and always have a couple of books going. We have been on a jag lately of books about Mexico. Here are a few of my favorites from the last couple of months:
The Road to Tetlama - Jim Conrad (A naturalist from Kentucky lives in rural Mexico) Mexico - Alice Adams (Essays about travels in Mexico over twenty years) Midlife Mavericks - Karen Blue (A Lakeside resident) Oaxaca Journal - Oliver Sacks (A naturalist in Oaxaca) The People's Guide to Mexico - Carl Franz Other favorites: The Deep Dark - Gregg Olsen ( The Sunshine Mine disaster) The Family Tree - Carole Cadwallard (A neurotic English family saga) Skeleton Man - Tony Hillerman (American Indian mystery) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (The aftermath of a girl's murder told by the victim) Harvest: A year in the life of an organic farm - Nicola Smith (A look into a real New England farm) In praise of slowness - Carl Honore (The title says it all) The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson (Travels around small town USA) Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux (Travels in Africa) Licorice - Abby Frucht (Midwestern, kinda strange but great) Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss (Language! Very funny) Polly's Ghost - Abby Frucht
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