belated eloquence.: waiting at the sucre post office.

What it looks like to entrust your Christmas correspondence to the Bolivian postal service.

what i've been reading.

Paul Tough, Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities
David Nicholls, One Day
Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
Laurence Khantipalo-Mills, Buddhism Explained
Roald Dahl, Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life!
Noam Chomsky, At War With Asia
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Jim Wallis, God's Politics: A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Isabel Allende, Paula
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics
Will Ferguson, Happiness TM
Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina
Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Doris Lessing, The Story of a Non-Marrying Man
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
El Cuento Hispanico
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island
Isabel Allende, My Invented Country
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
GK Chesterton, El Jardin Secreto
Fyodor Dostoyevski, The Idiot
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath
Lois Lowry, The Giver
A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe
Brian D. McLaren, Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
Colette, Break of Day
Norman Mailer, An American Dream
Alma Guillermoprieto, Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
Marian Wright Edelman, Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change
Garrison Keillor, Good Poems
Nick Hornby, How To Be Good
Richard Dahlstrom, O2
Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation
James Laughlin, Poems New and Selected
Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon From the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
Longfellow, Selected Poems
Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge
Jason Webster, Duende: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco
Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians
Mia Kirshner, I Live Here
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Milan Kundera, The Joke
Jacob Needleman, Why Can't We Be Good?
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Stephen Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!)
Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Henri J. M. Nouwen, Beyond the Mirror
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
William Paul Young, The Shack
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Doris Lessing, The Real Thing
Plato, The Symposium
Sherman Alexie, Flight
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
James V. Tiffany, Vecinos Incomodos: Cultural Collisions between Mexicans and Americans
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
Aleksander Solzhenistin, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Phillip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?
Garrison Keiler, Wobegon Boy
Joseph Heller, Catch 22
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Shusaku Endo, Silence
JB Phillips, Your God Is Too Small
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Muhammed Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Microlending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries
Margaret Willson, Dance Lest We All Fall Down
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Milan Kundera, Ignorance
Geraldine Brooks, Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Nell Bernstein, All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
Kefa Sempangi, Reign of Terror, Reign of Love: Life and Death in Amin's Uganda
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
Ben Forde, Faith in Bomb City
Jonathan Franzen, How To Be Alone
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Zoe Heller, Notes on a Scandal
Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist
Dervla Murphy, Through Siberia By Accident
Maxence Fermine, The Black Violin
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
John Perkins, Let Justice Roll Down
John le Carre, The Constant Gardener
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
William Easterly, The White Man's Burden
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Adrian Plass, Jesus: Safe, Tender, Extreme
Elizabeth Gilbert, eat, pray, love
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Maxence Fermine, Snow
Franz Kafka, The Trial
CS Lewis, The Weight of Glory
James Joyce, Dubliners
Albert Camus, The Outsider
Henry McDonald, Colours: Ireland- From Bombs to Boom
Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Andrei Makine, A Life's Music
David James Duncan, The Brothers K
Brian D. McLaren, A New Kind of Christian
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
Dr. James McConnell, Light on a Hill
Evan McHugh, Pint-Sized Ireland
Maeve Binchy, Nights of Rain and Stars
John Conroy, Belfast Diary
Steve Stockman, Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2
Rob Parsons, What They Didn't Teach Me in Sunday School
Ray Bakke, The Urban Christian
GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty
Ron Hutchcraft, Battle for a Generation
Pablo Neruda, Su Mejor Poesía
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
Saul Williams, said the shotgun to the head

belated eloquence.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

waiting at the sucre post office.

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