I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had : My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High, by Tony Danza

A perfect view of what it's like to be a brand-new teacher facing a sea of teenaged faces in an inner-city school. We really have GOT to fix the educational system in this country.

Dark Mirror, by Barry Maitland

Creepy. Poison kind of freaks me out a little. Lots of stuff about libraries. I'm wondering if it really is this easy to look at the borrowing records of people in UK libraries? Cuz--and this is key--this book would NEVER work in the US because we don't keep a list of what people use, nor will librarians voluntarily (i.e., without a warrant/subpoena) give up to the police any requests made by patrons.

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn

Preachy, didactic, silly...unfinished

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (on CD)

I enjoyed listening to this book, but I'm thinking about reading it with my eyeballs as well. The pronunciation of names and places was helpful, but I kept wondering what the spelling of the words is, and a reference map would have been helpful.

However, what Mortenson has been doing for 15 years is astounding. Why is the U.S. Government's policy more concerned with bombs instead of building schools?

As for the book itself, pretty well-written until the end when it pretty much just...stops. There were plenty of other "endings" that were better all the way through that were more sensibly places to stop. I suppose, though, since he's still at it, there really can't be a proper ending.

Amazing story; if you haven't read it, I would definitely do so.