Our Summer Reading List

Reading was an important diversion for us on the trip. Some parts of the trip, like Africa, were filled with so much travel and otherwise idle time that we would have gone absolutely crazy without a book. Fortunately, it was also times like that where books were constantly available to trade. The flip side to availability is quality, though. But, you do what you have to for entertainment.In other parts of the world, books weren't quite as easy to come by, but most places have a hostal or used book store to (rarely) swap or usually buy an English language book or two.

We kept a sort of thumbs up/down tally on our reading, but quickly found that we needed more and more thumbs to separate ok from good from great. In any event, here's what we read and some attempt to categorize good from bad. 'zzzz' means skipped and 'bah' is an indifferent "no thumbs" review.