I’m looking for a book to review for book club and my stepdaughter Lizzie is reading this one. I’ve had it on my Goodreads “to-read” list for a while, so I reacquainted myself with it through Amazon’s reviews. Sounds like something right up my alley—an American embarks on an around-the-world tour, starting with a short volunteer stint at an orphanage in Nepal; American falls in love with the “orphans” who aren’t really orphans; American returns again and again. I’m sold. Really, they had me with that cover already.
I just hope it isn’t as boring as Three Cups of Tea, a book on a similar theme. Listening to the audio version of that book almost made me fall asleep at the wheel several times between Texarkana and Houston. Oh, the overuse of adjectives! (Hemingway would have said something really rude about all those adjectives.)
