Year 2… the books I’ve read
* Year 1 book list ended on book 54 read…

55. German Boy – by: Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
56. The Shack – by: William P. Young
57. Oxygen – by: Carol Cassella
58. Post Mortem – by: Patricia Conwell
59. Autobiography of a Yogi – by: Paramahansa Yogananda
60. The Kite Runner – by: Khaled Husseini
61. Angles and Demons – by: Dan Brown
62. Ford Country Stories – by: John Grisham
63. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – by: Airnee Bender
64. The Catcher in the Rye – by: JD Salinger
65. The Bourn Identity – by: Robert Judlum
66. The Grapes of Wrath – by: John Steinbeck
67. Smashed – by: Koren Zailckas
68. Memoirs of a Geisha – by:
69. The Samurai’s Garden – by: Gail Tsukiyama
70. The Rape of Nanking – by: Iris Chang
71. The Outside Boy – by: Jeanine Cummins
72. The Legend of Colten H. Bryant – by: Alexandrea Fuller
73. Velva Jean Learns to Drive – by: Jennifer Niven
74. Nineteen Minutes – by: Jodi Picoult
75. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – by: JK Rowling
76. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – by: JK Rowling
77. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – by: JK Rowling
78. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – by: JK Rowling
79. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – by: JK Rowling
80. Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince – by: JK Rowling
81. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – by: JK Rowling
82. East of Eden – by: John Steinbeck
83. The Rainmaker – by: John Grisham
84. The Client – by: John Grisham
85. The Firm – by: John Grisham
86. The Hunger Games – by: Suzanne Collins
87. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire – by: Suzanne Collins
88. The Hunger Games, Mocking Jay – by: Suzanne Collins
89. A Thousand Splendid Suns – by: Khaled Hosseini
90. Cold Sassy Tree – by: Olive Anne Burns
91. About a Boy – by:
92. Moloka’I - by: Alam Brennert
93. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – by: Jamie Ford
94. Game of Thrones – by: George RR Martin
95. Tripwire – by: Lee Childs
96. The Shining – by: Stephen King
97. For Time and Eternity – by: Allison Pitman
98. Bridget Jones’ Diary – by: Helen Fielding
99. Winter Garden – by: Kristin Hannah
100. Sweet Ophelia – by: Kenneth Rosenberg

Woot Woot!!! Hit my goal of 100 books read during my two year service!

30 things to do when “light is off”

1. Go hang with my ‘children’
2. Go talk with my ‘family’
3. Read a book
4. Finish the book
5. Start a new book
6. Color with my ‘children’
7. Stare at the wall
8. Fetch some water
9. Eat the food in my fridge
10. Continue to stare at the wall
11. Contemplate life
12. Come up with ten new ideas of what to do when I finish Peace Corps
13. Finish all the food in my fridge
14. Disregard all new ideas of what to do when finished and create 5 more
15. Play suduko
16. Watch a TV show or movie and pray that the light will come back so I can charge my computer
17. Pace my room (two steps and then turn around)
18. Attempt to nap
19. Continue to attempt to nap
20. Walk around my village ‘greeting people’
21. Go back to my favorite thing… staring at the wall
22. Dance like a mad man
23. Stare at the wall some more
24. Bake some peanut butter cookies
25. Play another round of suduko
26. Listen to some music
27. Sit in front of my fan pretending that the light is on and I’m being cooled off
28. Continue to sit in front of my fan
29. Consume every last morsel of food in my fridge (just incase light does not come for a long, long time)
30. Stare at the wall till the light finally comes
• “light” in Ghana means power
• And yes I have done all of these things while waiting sometimes only an hour or up to several weeks for “light” to come again.