Three Cups of Tea, Part I

At the halfway point in this book, I’m not sure how I feel about it. I don’t usually read nonfiction. This book is about a guy, Greg Mortenson, who went to Pakistan to climb K2. After a failed attempt at the summit, he got lost on the way down and ended up in a remote village called Korphe. The people of Korphe were so nice to Greg that he promised he would come back and build a school. The book chronicles all of the events I’ve just described through building the Korphe school and 50 some odd other schools in the region.

The beginning dragged a bit for me – mostly because I was lost by all of the climbing jargon and horrendous descriptions. Now, however, I find myself pretty compelled. I even teared up a bit when the book described the sacrifices the people made to help build the school.

I’m reading it for a book club, and I’m glad for that. It’s not a book I would have picked up on my own, but (at least so far) it is probably worth the read.

Buy Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time at Amazon.com.

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