I’ve been reading quite a bit on this trip, trying to stack my list for the 50 Books in a Year Challenge. I’m still a few behing blogmate Karen but watch out Karen -I’m on your heels.
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Awaking disoriented from a deep sleep afternoon nap, I walked the 20 yards from our bungalow to the shoreline and then beyond until my head was submersed, my hair floating this way and that like sea-weed. Holding my breath under water, I realized that I felt like a zombie, that I had no idea why [...]

I am terribly behind pace in my reality fuel list so I am resigned to cheating. Completely read issues of The Believer and Audio Books will now be counted.
My updated Reality Fuel list:

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
The Zapatista Reader edited by Tom Hayden
Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor
The History of the United [...]

Mercy Among the Children is a stunning novel by David Adams Richards. It has nothing to do with international conflict, but a nation at war should stare into its flame … There’s light here for anyone who can stand the considerable heat he generates. Told with racing suspense and a style that swings between gritty realism and Old Testament myth, Mercy Among the Children is a bitter antidote to the proud slogans of war between neighbors or nations. Here is the reason to read fiction.

It always amazes me how few people have Milan Kundera, that he has not won the Pullitzer or Nobel prize, hardly any literary prizes at all really. “But I’d really like to read something of his,” she said with this flirtatious smile of hers where one eye is a little more open than the other. That smile kills me … today just like it did that day. And ever since I had been looking for a Spanish language version of Immortality.

I have a bad habit. Once I start a book I have to finish it. I can’t move on to a new one until I finish what I was reading, which in this case is The Sound and the Fury. Randomhouse lists it as the six greatest novel of the 20th century. I, however, am [...]

1.) Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
2.) The Zapatista Reader edited by Tom Hayden
3.)Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor

and currently reading:
4.)The History of the United States of America by Philip Jenkins
5.)The Sound and the Fury by Robert Faulkner

Mr. Oso (if that’s what your name really is): where is Laura and what have you done with her? We know what the plan is and we don’t particularly like it. In fact we are whole-heartedly against it. Kidnapping is a serious crime…even in Mexico, we want to know your demands and when you [...]