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November 20, 2008
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dispatches from the frontier
author
- jacob
- I like conversating, reading, thinking and I would like to improve my writing
posts more useful than most
gone but not forgotten
reading/read
- The Soul of an Octopus by Montgomery
- Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
- Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell
- Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by Lipsky
- The Righteous Mind by Haidt
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
- Revelations by Moffatt
- Alone on the Wall by Honnold
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by Wallace
- 9 out of 10 Climbers...by McCleod
- Training for the New Alpinism by House
- Rock Climber's Training Manual by Anderson
- The Self Coached Climber by Hague
- The Talent Code by Coyle
- Stumbling Upon Happiness by Gilbert
- Love Sense by Johnson
- Consider the Lobster by Wallace
- Who Rules the Earth? by Steinberg
- The Psychology of Romantic Love by Johnson
- A Random Walk Down Wallstreet by Malkiel
- The Poisonwood Bible by Kingslover
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman
- How to be Alone by Franzen
- Freedom by Franzen
- Tales of the Unexpected by Dahl
- The Age of American Unreason by Jacoby
- Silent Spring by Carson
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Vonnegut
- The Grand Design by Hawking
- The Black Swan by Taleb
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Corrections by Franzen
- This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald
- A Fan's Notes by Exley
- 1776 by McCullough
- East of Eden by Steinbeck
- Desert Solitaire by Abbey
- Papillon by Cherriere
- Galapagos by Vonnegut
- Dark Star Safari by Theroux
- The Qur'an
- The Crossing by McCarthy
- the Lao Tzu by Lao Tzu
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by Perkins
- Armageddon in Retrospect by Vonnegut
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
- American Constitutional Law by Mason
- Lonely Planet Southern Africa
- Lonely Planet Egypt
- One Shot by Childs
- The God Delusion by Dawkins
- Infinite Jest by Wallace
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez (again)
- Beloved by Morrison
- The Road to Hell by Maren
- The Freedom of the Hills 8th ed.
- The Way to Freedom by the Dalai Lama
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Ralston
- Heft on Wheels by Magnuson
- Walden by Thoreau
- Sophie's World by Gaarder
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut
- The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Chopra
- With the Old Breed by Sledge
- Harry Potter 7 by Rowling
- Harry Potter 6 by Rowling
- Harry Potter 5 by Rowling
- Harry Potter 4 by Rowling
- Harry Potter 3 by Rowling
- Holidays on Ice by Sedaris
- Harry Potter 2 by Rowling
- Harry Potter 1 by Rowling
- Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs by Klosterman
- Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by Sedaris
- The Life of Pi by Martel
- K2: Life and Death... by Viesters
- Six Easy Pieces by Feynman
- The Road by McCarthy
- Women by Bukowski
- The Quants by Patterson
- The Big Short by Lewis
- Naked by Sedaris
- A Heart Breaking Work of Staggering Genius by Eggers
- The Once and Future King by White
- Literature and It's Writers by Charters
- The Plague by Camus
- Trainspotting by Welsh
- Heart of Darkness by Conrad
- The Creature From Jeckyll Island by Griffin
- The Fountainhead by Rand
- The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by Lawrence
- What is the What by Eggers
- A Long Way Down by Hornby
- Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World by Weatherford
- Casino by Pileggi
- The Bourne Ultimatum by Ludlum
- A Handbook for Stock Investors by Chuan
- The Pearl by Steinbeck
- The Red Pony by Steinbeck
- Nothing to Lose by Child
- Lonely Planet Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by Sedaris
- The Kite Runner by Hosseini
- Conversations With God by Walsch
- The Bottom Billion by Collier
- Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot And Other Candid Opinions by Franken
- A Moveable Feast by Hemmingway
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- Outliers by Gladwell
- Now I Can Die In Peace by Simmons
- As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
- Snuff by Palunchuk
- From Beirut to Jerusalem by Friedman
- Development as Freedom by Sen
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Marquez
- Underworld by DeLillo
- The Republic by Plato
- Catch 22 by Heller
- Influence by Cialdini
- Tipping Point by Gladwell
- Nudge by Thaler
- Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
- Lonely Planet: Vietnam
- Atlas Shrugged by Rand
- Red Badge of Courage by Crane
- Player Piano by Vonnegut
- The Old Man and The Sea by Hemmingway
- How To Change The World by Bornstein
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Diamond
- Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed by Trynka
- :07 Seconds or Less by McCallum
- The Blind Side by Lewis
- The White Man's Burden by Easterly
- The End of Poverty by Sachs
these are the days of my life of my life
- August 2012: California sleepin'
- May 2012: homeward by way of India, Hungary, France and Germany
- July, 2011: commodity prices double, strikes and protests ensue
- February 18, 2011: presidential elections
- July 11, 2010: al Shabob detonates two bombs in Kampala
- April 22, 2010: depart for my site 40km outside of Gulu in northern Uganda
- April 21, 2010: completed training (round 2 cockadoodle doo) and sworn in as volunteer at ambassador's residence in Kampala
- February 7, 2010: depart for Uganda
- December 2009: accept invitation to Uganda
- October 30, 2009: Peace Corps Guinea program suspended and I reapply for another post
- October 5, 2009: Peace Corps orders departure and consolidation in neighboring Mali
- October 1, 2009: arrive at my site, Lafou
- September 28, 2009: government troops murder and rape hundreds of citizens attending a political rally in Conakry
- September 27, 2009: departed Conakry to Labe, the capital city of the mountainous Fouta region
- September 25, 2009: completed training and sworn in as volunteer at the capital city of Conakry
- July 5, 2009: left for training in Guinea
- April 17, 2009: accepted invitation to Guinea
- January 2009: medically cleared
- June 2008: interviewed and nominated
- May 2008: submitted PC application
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I am a Peace Corps volunteer. This is a personal blog. The views expressed herein belong exclusively to myself and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Peace Corps organization.