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The contents of this website are mine personally and do not in any way reflect, or attempt to reflect any position of the United States Government or the Peace Corps.
About Me
- Pete
- Wickford, Rhode Island, United States
- I am Pete Meegan. I applied for the Peace Corps and was accepted to be a part of the 18th group of volunteers going to Turkmenistan. I was re-assigned to Ukraine as of October 1, and will hopefully be leaving around the 13th or 14th of October.
Books I Have Read in Ukraine
- The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation - Drew Westen
- The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris - Peter Beinart
- How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace – Charles A. Kupchan
- Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
- Travels with Charley in Search of America – John Steinbeck
- Bright's Passage - Josh Ritter
- Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War 1890-1914 – Barbara W. Tuchman
- Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America – Edwin S. Gaustad
- Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia - Tom Bissell
- The Innocents Abroad, or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City’s Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land – Mark Twain
- No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
- I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away – Bill Bryson
- Siberia Bound: Chasing the American Dream on Russia's Wild Frontier - Alexander Blakely
- War - Sebastian Junger
- Democracy: An American Novel - Henry Adams
- The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 - Paul Krugman
- Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence and the End of Eastern Europe - Charles King
- Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- The Madman - Khalil Gibran
- Revolution in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt, And the Unmaking of an Era - Contributors of Foreign Policy Magazine, Marc Lynch, Blake Hounsell, and Susan Glasser
- The Unnamable - Samuel Beckett
- Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams – Charles King
- The Shack - William Paul Young
- Inside Central Asia: A Political and Cultural History of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Turkey, and Iran - Dilip Hiro
- The Vintage Caper - Peter Mayle
- A History of Krakow for Everyone - Jan M. Malecki
- Tinkers - Paul Harding
- The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
- Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 - Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley
- Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter - Steven Johnson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together - Senator John Danforth
- The Best American Travel Writing 2001 - edited by Paul Theroux
- Rhode Island: A History - William G. McLoughlin
- A Country that Works: Getting America Back on Track - Andy Stern
- Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
- Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer - Howard R. Simpson
- Ali and Nino - Kurban Said
- Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference - Warren St. John
- Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - And How to Return to Reality - Jack F. Matlock, Jr
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- Caucasus: A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam - Nicholas Griffin
- The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus - Charles King
- Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
- Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia - Daniel Metcalfe
- The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 - Evan Thomas
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
- Sun Tzu Was a Sissy: Conquer Your Enemies, Promote Your Friends, and Wage the Real Art of War - Stanley Bing
- Molloy - Samuel Beckett
- Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
- My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- A Discourse on Inequality - Jean Jacques Rousseau
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- Honor First: A Citizen-Soldier in Afghanistan - Platte B. Moring, III
- A Russian Journal - John Steinbeck
- A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
- Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation - John Carlin
- Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
- Singing on the Heavy Side of the Word - John Deever
- Misquoting Jesus: the Story Behind who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart Ehrman
- Once There was a War - John Steinbeck
- Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation - Serhy Yekelchyk
- Borderland: a Journey through the History of Ukraine - Anna Reid
- McCarthy's Bar - Pete McCarthy
- Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: on the tracks of The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
- The Great Railway Bazaar: by train through Asia - Paul Theroux
- To America: Personal Reflections of an History - Stephen Ambrose
- The Story of B - Daniel Quinn
- Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
- Nation of Immigrants - John F. Kennedy
Followers
Blog Archive
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- First Week in Zhmerinka
- Swearing-In Retreat
- The Last Weeks of Training, and Trainee-ism
- The Last Weeks of Training, and Trainee-ism
- The Last Weeks of Training, and Trainee-ism
- A Bit about the History of Kaharlyk
- Life During PST
- Life During PST
- Some Rambling Thoughts About Why I Joined Peace Corps
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