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  • Hemmingway, Chiam Potok and most Russian authors:
    These are my "go-to" books.
  • Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

    Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    This is the one I last finished.... If you're interested in the Middle East/Islamic cultures, women's rights and/or the power of literature, you'd probably be a fan. I'm into all three of those, so, yeah, I liked it.

  • Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel

    Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
    My sister is a big fan, so I've decided to check it out. A little more fantastical than my usual fare, but...pretty interesting. I am supplementing it with another book about a childhood spent in Africa so as not to feel too shallow. Not that fun books are "shallow." I just gravitate toward realistic (and, for some reason, usually dark) stuff. So this is different for me. But different might be ok. We'll see....

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January 20, 2008

Feels Like Here: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Well, I've arrived at the place that I'll be calling home for the next three weeks.  I'm still jetlagging a bit (though I was able to sleep till 5am this morning...which is better than the 4:30am-wide-awake thing I had going on yesterday), but I really can't complain - the journey was without incident, & I'm getting pretty settled. 

There's lots I could report on (like Tony - the Thai shop owner who lived in LA for 10 years; or George - the Irish bookstore owner), but I'm afraid it'll have to wait 'cause I only have about 30 seconds left of my time at this internet cafe. 

Mostly, just wanted to let you know that I made it...and I've seen N & K, so all is well.  : ) 

More soon....

Comments

So glad you checked in with us! Will you eventually have an internet connection at your conference site? Love ya, Mom

hurrah! happy travels to you and your friends :)

and most importantly, what percentage of the books on your list have you found?

and also most importantly, have you discovered sojo's?

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  • *WHERE*
    Pasadena, California
  • *WHO*
    Well, I'm Andrea, and this is my blog. Other people's names will pop up now and then, too, but I'll try to explain those as I go.
  • *WHAT*
    I'm still working for the same organization with which I went to China...except now I'm in southern California, assisting OTHER teachers in China (and elsewhere in Asia).
  • *WHEN*
    After graduating college in the summer of 2001, I moved to China and taught English for a year. Then I returned to the States - first to the Northwest, then to Florida - until returning to China (Tibet) in the spring of 2005. After teaching there for three months, I returned to Florida (where I lived a total of almost two years)...then to the Northwest...then back to China in February 2006. I stayed there until July 2007. Then, after a couple of months with my family in the Northwest, I moved to California (September 2007)...which brings us to now. Simple, yeah?
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