Finished "White Maasai" last night. While it was an easy read and also entertaining, I only thought it was just okay ....... the whole book revolved around her trying to adjust to the Maasai culture and seemed to me like she was always either sick or in the vehicle travelling for one reason or the other!

After Tears by Niq Mhlongo

South African story, told in a fast, hip and happening style that is synonymous with Soweto where the author's witty, dodgy, plain and simple characters play out their daily drama." Lucas Ledwaba, City Press.

Has anyone else mentioned this book? They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky, by three boys who escaped the violence of the Sudan and eventually made it to the USA. The "eventually" part is the story; how they barely survived (they were only five or six years old at the start) and the remarkable family values that sustained them. Of course this gruesome brutality continues -- it's a fascinating, moving story.

Interpreter of Maladies, a Pulitzer winning set of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake & Unaccustomed Earth)

Just finished Indiana Jones & the Seven Veils.

Hi Waynehazle,

I saw the movie "Namesake" last year - give it a miss! I thought Interpreter of Maladies was a good book, though.

Pathological Basis of Veterinary Disease by McGavin and Zachary !!
All 1475 pages of it !! Truly absorbing! NOT!
Unfortunately necessary for my Specialist Board exams in September.
Then we leave November for 2.5 months in Africa as my reward for studying!! (Not for passing because pass rate only 20% and I really want to go!!!)

"The Full Cupboard of Life"

Book 5 in the #1 Ladies Detective series.

Nice to see one of the #1 Detective books made it into your 12 books per year!

I started Super Capitalism near the end of Sept and just finished it last week. It was an interesting choice to be reading during the meltdown.

I'm just starting to read "Stalking the Wild Dik-Dik: One Woman's Solo Misadventures Across Africa" by Marie Javins.
It's entertaining and easy to read. Should be a good one for my next trip on Monday to Kenya.

I'm about halfway through "Abyssinian Chronicles" by Moses Isegawa, a novel about a Ugandan boy growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, by a Ugandan writer. It's a bit inconsistent, but a good read... and about as far away as you can get from a travelogue or a romantic story about Africa.

Before this I read "Say You're One of Them," a collection of short stories about African children by Uwem Akpan. Brilliant, brutal, and unforgettable. One of the best books I've read in years.

MyDogKyle,

Quite a gripping intro isn't it in Ab. Chron? I'll have to look at it again before this summer's trip.

This and the next book aren't African eitiher. Better get back to some Africa reads.

Lynn, I was just thinking I might need to lay off the Africa reads after I finish this one, since I won't be planning another trip to Africa for a while and it might be a mild form of torture to read about it...

while i am a total novice about Africa, as i will have my "first' safari in May, i have been reading books for quite a while.

For this group I would highly recommend River of Doubt, Teddy Roosevelt's journey on an uncharted tributary of the Amazon, written by a writer for national Geographic- with great detail of the flora, fauna and indigenous people of the area.

My favorite author is Mario Vargas Llosa- I recommend ALL his books-his most famous-Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter- others being Way to Paradise, The Bad Girl and Feast of the Goat, with my favorite being War at the End of the World

Amycyma,

Good for you for starting the reading process. There's enough text here on your threads to keep you occupied for now.

<b><font color="green">&quot;A Crime So Monstrous</font></b>: Face-to-Face With Modern Day Slavery&quot;


So far a very powerful and haunting book. Slavery is not something that died out after the Civil War. There are more slaves in the world now than ever before...

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the best seller &quot;The Alchemist&quot; by Paulo Coelho... this was my inspiration to visit the Pyramids in Egypt!

I've just finished reading Kobie Kruger's book The Wilderness Family.
Does anyone know if Leo is still alive?

Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire, the UN Force Commander in Rwanda during the genocide.

atravelynn

Glad to hear you are reading his amazing account. It is a book that will stay with you for a long time.

I was recently in Kenya (last December) and I just happened to meet Brian Jackman in Samburu. We were on the same flight from Wilson. He was the victim of a very sick little girl who vomited all over him. This was my introduction later when I made his short acquaintance as he landed with Iain Douglas-Hamilton at the Samburu airstrip. I was not aware of his incredible writings and journalist achievements in the UK. Where have I been????

As soon as I got home I ordered his books used at amazon.

I just finished The Marsh Lions, The Story of an African Pride by Brian Jackman, photographs and drawings by Jonathan Scott. (1983) and I just started reading the (sort of) sequel Roaring at the Dawn: Journeys in Wild Africa by Brian Jackman, Jonathan Scott (Photographer), David Coulson (Photographer) (1996); a celebration of the splendors of wild Africa, its greatest game parks and most spectacular fauna. Drawn from 20 years of safaris in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, it offers the reader a vivid portrait of life in the bush.

I must say, if you haven’t read his books … well …. you should. It’s fun also to see the pictures taken by Jonathan Scott in his youth! Those are classics.

PS. Thank you Denise – treepol - for your reading list.