My year of pleasure reading is winding down as the school term is looming ahead--I hope to keep it up but I'm sure the pace will be changing dramatically! I've read such great volumes--all could be commented on but I'll spare you.
Tracy Kidder, however, deserves special accolades. The first book I read of his several years ago, Mountains Beyond Mountains, should be required reading for everyone. (That's a hint. If you've not read it, put it in your line-up!)
This year, I read My Detachment (unusually, a personal memoir from the Viet Nam war), and Among SchoolChildren (a great story of public education in America)--both excellent.
I just completed Strength in What Remains--an incredible story of Deo, a survivor of the Burundi genocide that miraculously ends up in NYC with $200 in his pocket, knowing no one, & understanding no English. A former medical student in Africa becomes a homeless person in America--with a mission to return to med school. An honest, haunting & inspiring story--and told so well by one of my all-time favorite authors. We are all richer from his writing--and the people who's stories he chooses to tell.
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