Trip to WV

Life, the Pursuit of Two Crazy GSPs, TechLogos, and Intellectual Liberalism

July 23, 2010

Was in West Virginia for two days for work. The town we were in was nice and quiet and a good break from the maddening crush of Washington DC.

Category:

Life

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee

The Road: Vasily Grossman

Sofia Tolstoy: A Biography

The Original of Laura. Vladimir Nabokov: 2008

History of the Thirteen. Honore de Balzac: 1833-5

Al Qaeda in its Own Words. Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli ed.: 2008

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women.
Geraldine Brooks: 1995

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan. Christina Lamb: 2004

The Places In Between. Rory Stewart: 2006

The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. Sarah Chayes: 2007

A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini: 2008

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid: 2008

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid: 2001