India to Central America Trip 2008
Just a list of the novels that I read this trip if anybody is interested, and the place where I started reading them and if I get round to it some reviews.
Anita & Me – Meera Syal – Given to me by my mum before I left.
Love in the time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marques – Pushkar, India
Brick Lane – Monica Ali – Pushkar, India
Freakonomics:A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything – S. D. Levitt & S. J. Dubner – Pushkar
Moon & Sixpence – Somerset Maugham – Diu
Oscar & Lucinda – Peter Carey – Diu
Being Indian – Pavan K Varma – Varanasi
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry – Varanasi
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson – Bodh Gaya
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy – Bodh Gaya
Wintersmith – Terry Pratchett – Mcloed Ganj
The Fourth Hand – John Irving – Mcloed Ganj
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – Started with a borrowed copy in Varanasi but had to give it back as friend who I had borrowed it from was leaving and hadnt finished it herself, then bought and read again in Chamba.
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood – Jammu
Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett – Leh
The Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh – Leh
The Solitaire Mystery – Jostein Garder – Keylong
East of Eden – John Steinbeck – Mud
Icy Sparks – Gwyn Hyman Rubio – Delhi
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert S Pirsing – Mexico City, Mexico. Its a classic, very much a product of its day and a book that I have read many times before.
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts – Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Captain Corellis Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres - Quetzaltenango, Mexico
Attention all Shipping – Charlie Connely – Guatamala City, Guatamala
The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova – Livingston, Guatamala
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx – Utila, Honduras
