Books Read

I wanted to send a quick thank you post out to all those that have purchased me Kindle books so far. To this date, I’ve managed to read 17 books. It’s not looking like I’ll be joining the 100 book club during my service but I’m still set to read at least 50 books which is pretty awesome. Here are the books I’ve read so far and some of the great quotes I’ve found within them. Some books were read and then passed on so I do not have any quotes from them. I recommend all these books!If you'd like a specific book to read feel free to shoot me an email. (And yes, I didn't have internet so I typed all these quotes up by hand instead of trying to copy and paste them.)

1. “What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” On the Road – Jack Kerouac
2. River Town – Peter Hessler
3. Catch me if you can – Frank W. Abagnale Jr.
4. The boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba
5. “There wasn’t a day on the trail when that monotony didn’t ultimately win out, when the only thing to think about was whatever was the physically hardest. It was a sort of scorching cure. I counted my steps, working my way to a hundred and starting over again at one. Each time I completed another set it seemed as if I’d achieved a small thing. Then a hundred became too optimistic and I went to fifty, then twenty-five, then ten. One two three four five six seven eight nine ten.” Wild – Cheryl Strayed
6. “Sonu was enrolled in seventh grade at Marol Municipal. Though he couldn’t go to class because of his work, he registered for school annually, studied at night, and returned at year’s end to take exams.” Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
7. The Giver – Lois Lowry
8. “Among those who signed up for the Peace Corps during the first five years of its existence, we were of an era when volunteers served in the “Wold West”: we were simply put on a plane and shipped abroad with anyone seldom checking on us, and certainly never a call or visit from parents.” Peasants Come Last - J Larry Brown
9. The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
10. “When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose after all. The Subtle Knife – Phillip Pullman
11. “Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” Quiet – Susan Cain
12. The In Between – Goins
13. “If you want to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of water that way instead of this.” The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman
14. “… I should have been there when this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.” Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
15. Oracle Bones – Peter Hessler
16. “…mosquitoes so thick I have seen them put out a lighted candle with their burnt bodies” The Path Between the Seas – David McCullough
17. “When we first begin fighting for our dream, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times” The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
18. Nine Hills to Nambonkaha – Sarah Erdman

Books Unfinished or in Progress

1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
2. The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature – David George Haskell
3. Tiny Beautiful Things – Advice on Love – Cheryl Strayed
4. “Columbus therefore cheated on his calculations, as the examining faculty of the University of Salamanca quite correctly pointed out. He used the smallest possible circumference of the Earth and the greatest eastward extension of Asia he could find in all the books available to him, and then exaggerated even those. Had the Americas not been in the way, Columbus’ expeditions would have failed utterly.” Cosmos – Carl Sagan
5.   El Peregrino – Paulo Coelho