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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (The Best American Series(TM))
The Constant Gardener
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Extended Profile
I am retired. My professional work has been as a veterinarian doing regulatory work in Oregon and as a third-world development worker in East Africa, where I spent 16 years in veterinary disease control in Tanzania Maasailand, food supply stabilization
and agriculture development in northern Kenya and central Tanzania, and water development using windmills and small scale mechanical devices (appropriate technology).
I love a good read and have always particularly enjoyed short stories by more lately novels. To engrossed in a story or book is a joyful experience, and to be contemplating its story line and where it might go in between reading sessions is another delightful piece of time.
In Africa as our five children were growing up in places where we had no electricity or artificial evening entertainment, we read books aloud to them - and those formative years of sitting still, listening and processing and forming mental images, have proven invaluable to them for their higher educations.
"Liberating" books is a lovely idea and very appealing to me! As we move into retirement and sort through our libraries there will be many books that we will be delighted to have the opportunity to share - to put out there somewhere so that they can go where the wind blows as we have done during our lives.
I love a good read and have always particularly enjoyed short stories by more lately novels. To engrossed in a story or book is a joyful experience, and to be contemplating its story line and where it might go in between reading sessions is another delightful piece of time.
In Africa as our five children were growing up in places where we had no electricity or artificial evening entertainment, we read books aloud to them - and those formative years of sitting still, listening and processing and forming mental images, have proven invaluable to them for their higher educations.
"Liberating" books is a lovely idea and very appealing to me! As we move into retirement and sort through our libraries there will be many books that we will be delighted to have the opportunity to share - to put out there somewhere so that they can go where the wind blows as we have done during our lives.