Send Me On My Way: R.U.S. alert!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

R.U.S. alert!

Also, on my way to visit my PCV, Emily, in Guaira, we stopped off in Villarica and saw some...

RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE!

a.k.a. capybara

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rachael_shayOctober 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM
whoa--my roomie just watched Princess Bride yesterday--were you in the fire swamp when you saw the Rodents of an unusual Size?
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AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Oh my goodness I hate rodents! If I saw that thing I would probably try to run away. It is pretty darn scary.
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ChristinNovember 2, 2009 at 7:44 PM
CAPYBARA!!!!!

I heart ROUSes.
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Books I´ve Read (in Paraguay and beyond)

1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri*
2. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
3. Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
4. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris*
5. We Are Still Married by Garrison Keillor
6. Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
7. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
8. The English Patient by Michael Ondaantje*
9. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhmpa Lahiri
10. The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
11. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy*
12. The Way That Water Enters Stone by John Dufresne
13. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen*
14. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
15. That Distant Land by Wendell Berry
16. Truck, A Love Story by Michael Perry*
17. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

18. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry*

19. What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

21. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

22. A Celebration of Friendship by Women Writers

23. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

24. The Time Traveller's Wife

25. Beautiful Disguises

26. Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.*

27. The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

28. Here On Earth by Alice Hoffman

29. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by

Mark Kurlansky*

30. Living On The Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers

31. Bodies in Motion and At Rest by Thomas Lynch*

32. One Thousand White Women by Jim Ferguson

33. Sabriel by Garth Nix

34. Bad Girl Creek

35. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver*

36. The Cider House Rules by John Irving*

37. The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett

38. Esteban en Plano (Flat Stanley) por Jeff Brown

39. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

40. Knulp by Herman Hesse

41. Life of Pi by Yann Martel*

42. The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice

43. The Help by Kathryn Stockett*

44. The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek

45. Bad Girl Creek

46. Never Let Me Go

47. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner

48. Marley & Me by John Grogan

49. Evening by Susan Minot*

50. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson*

51. Summer by Edith Wharton

52. The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich

53. Little Bee by Chris Cleaves*

54. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran

55. Children of the River by Linda Crew

56. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

57. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki*

58. The Best American Short Stories of 2010*

59. Dreaming in English by Laura Fitzgerald

60. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

61. The Other Side of the World by Alex Kotlowitz

62. Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagan

63. 'Tis by Frank McCourt*

64. El lugas mas bonito del mundo by Ann Cameron

65. The Lady, The Chef, and the Courtesan by Marisol

66. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

67. Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story by Michael Datcher

68. Diary, a novel by Chuck Palahniuk

69. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

70. Edith's Story: the true story of a young girl's courage and survival during WWII by Edith Velmans

71. A Good Year by Peter Mayle

72. Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine

73. The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

74. The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck*

75. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticant*

76. Drop City by T.C. Boyle

77. The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar*

78. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

79. How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer

80. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

81. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

82. The Best American Short Stories of 1990

83. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez*

84. Los Osos Scouts y La Guerra de los Fantasmas por Stan y Jan Berenstein

85. Voices of Angels by Nick Hornby

86. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson*

87. Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

88. How to Bake a Perfect Life by Barbara O'Neal

89. Educating Esmé Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Faji Codell

90. The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards

91. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

92. Love Walked In by Maris de los Santos

93. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt*

94. The Blue Orchard by Jackson Taylor

95. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher*

96. The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho

97. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
98. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
99. Flipped by Wendelin Van Daanen

Currently reading La Casa de Los Espíritus by Isabel Allende and Farm City: The Education of An Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter

*Highly Recommended.

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