Books Finished vs. Books Reviewed

So I am completely finished reading 8 books. I am working on two books right now. I gave up on the audio I was trying to listen to. I have not completely given up on the book yet so I am not going to mention the title. I think some books make great audios and I think this is not one of them. Also I feel a little overwhelmed with the heaviness of the books I have been reading lately. But as I have finished eight books already, some easy reads, some more difficult I feel like I am doing ok on the reading end.

The reviewing end is not going so well. It took me almost two weeks to write the Three cups of Tea review, and I still don't feel it does the book justice. This is not good because I actually want you guys to read some of these books. Not every book I read is going to be for everyone, but I would like to write reviews good enough for you to figure out if you would actually like the book. So I am going to try a new system. It is going to be a no edit version of the review. I will spell check but I won't delete a word unless it is a typo. My reviews might sound more like insane rambling, but the more polished I make them the more they sound like something the publisher already put on the back of the book. No offense to the publishers but who needs the same information they gave you again. There is a link in each picture of the book that will tell you all that stuff with one click. So now I am just going to tell you what I think of the book.

Books Finished: 8
Currently Reading: American Wife, House of Leaves

Three Cups of Tea

I always believed that a single person really does have the ability to change the world and Greg Mortenson has proved it. This is a very inspirational story. You really get to follow Greg through all of his adventures, including the triumphs, the failures, and the failures that were triumphs in disguise. He takes you inside a culture that many of us know far too little about. He doesn't make it sound like everything is perfect but instead shows how little the differences between us and them actually matter. He proves how huge a difference something as simple as a school can make in a community, and how those ripples can move through a region and then the world.


I rarely read non-fiction but I really liked this story. Not only was Greg interviewed extensively to capture his story, but so were many of the people he worked with both in America and Pakistan. The best part of this story is that because of the children educated in these schools, Mortenson's work will continue to change the world long after all of us are gone.