Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
May 10th, 2013
-Alexander Sattler
(Source: americann0mad, via livefortravel)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward (via travel-quotes)
(via livefortravel)
February 23rd, 2013
(Source: icanread)
September 14th, 2012
(Source: saras-scrapbook, via livefortravel)
February 2nd, 2012
Taken from the island of Koh Chang in the Gulf of Thailand, where my Canadian and I just spent an AMAZING week.
January 19th, 2012
Amazing. I usually know when people here are talking about me. Mostly I know just if they say the word “Tay” hah
January 17th, 2012
Hi, I was just looking at the list with book you've read in 2011 (I made it to 50 too!) and I saw that 'Life of Pi' was on it. Recently I had to read that book for school, and I really hated it. So i was curious about your opinion.
Asketh - sunday-storm
I will admit that I had an incredibly hard time getting through it. It took a very long time. There were parts where I was hooked and parts where I was tempted to skim. I did think that the ending was pretty interesting but in general, it definitely wasn’t my favourite book.
Me: Xin Yee, why are you angry?
Xin Yee (3 year old Vietnamese/Chinese Malay girl): I don’t want to share. That’s MY cookie. That’s MY choice!!
Xin Yee (3 year old Vietnamese/Chinese Malay girl): I don’t want to share. That’s MY cookie. That’s MY choice!!
My classroom
So I haven’t posted in forever but I am going to try to post a bit more for my last 7 months in Vietnam…and I’m going to start with one of my accomplishments for 2011. I decided that because I won’t be able to do a lot of pleasure reading in grad school, I wanted to read 50 books in 2011. In fact, I read 66 and here they are…message me if you want recommendations!
Popular Fiction
The Sense of Ending
Life of Pi
The Confessions of Edward Day
Freedom: A Novel
High Fidelity
Blonde Roots
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl who Played with Fire
The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Shantaram
A Long Way Down
Dystopia
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
The Mockingjay
Divergent
When She Woke
Biographies and Memoirs
I’m Not Myself These Days
American On Purpose: The Improbably Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Things I’ve Been Silent About
Wishful Drinking
Bossypants
Just Kids
Classics
As I Lay Dying
The God of Small Things
The Quiet American
Religion
The Siege of Mecca (NF)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (F)
The Poisonwood Bible (F)
The Convert (NF)
The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslims Call to Reform in Her Faith (NF)
War and Genocide
Human Cargo (NF)
Eva’s Story (NF)
The Gendarme (F)
Stay Alive My Son (NF)
Suite Francaise (NF)
Bare Feet, Iron Will (NF)
Warchild (NF)
Sarah’s Key (F)
First They Killed My Father (NF)
The Sorrow of War (F)
Psychology
Sybil Exposed (NF)
All of Me (NF)
Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (NF)
My Lobotomy (NF)
Weekends at Bellevue (NF)
Look Me in the Eye (NF)
Other Non-Fiction
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
The Devil in the White City
Slave
Sex Slaves
Give Me My Chocolate or the Turtle Dies
Chick-Lit
The Lady of the Rivers
Boy Meets Boy
One Day
The Finishing Touches
Swept Off Her Feet
Cocktails for Three
The Little Lady Agency
Little Lady, Big Apple
The Little Lady Agency and the Prince
40 Love
Baby Proof
Love the One You’re With
Something Blue
Something Borrowed
Spoiled
NF= Non-Fiction, F= Fiction
