Backlog Post: Biia’s Official Peace Corps Booklist

Here is a list of all the books I read during my Peace Corps experience. My goal was to read all the books in the Parakou workstation lol it should be noted that there are two other workstations that had libraries that I also took books from but my focus was on Parakou.

So what I did was methodically went through each shelf that I could go through so that I could read all the books. At first this seemed like a good idea to make sure I got to every book but I had to make a slight change to my methods. I started in the smallest section at the very end of the library first, which ended up being the romance section. Which was fine and dandy in the beginning but after my 3rd romance novel they were coming off as a little too similar so I decided to alternate between two genres for the rest of the time so I wouldn’t get tired of one genre and not appreciate the book. It was pretty funny at first because it was like romance. CRIME. Romance. CRIME romance. HORROR. Romance. CHILDREN’S BOOK. lol

Rating Scale
💥 = i regret reading this
💥💥 = meh. Not really for me
💥💥💥 =it was good/fine
💥💥💥💥 =i would own it😊
💥💥💥💥💥 = i would reread this hundreds of times. I would own it and pass it down to future generations.

1. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A history of the Hip Hop generation by Jeff Chang💥💥💥💥
2. One Piece by Eichro?💥💥💥💥💥
3. A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks💥💥💥💥💥
4. Silk is for Seduction by Loretta Chase 💥💥💥💥
5. Wicked Seduction by Jade Lee💥💥💥
6. To Distraction by Stephanie Lauren’s💥💥💥
7. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 💥💥💥💥
8. Married to the Viscount by Sabrina Jeffries💥💥💥
9. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk 💥
10. Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas💥💥💥
11. Don’t Blink by James Patterson & Howard Roughing💥💥💥
12. In Search of the Sandman by Timi Bliss💥💥💥💥
13. Harry Potter: The Cursed Child 💥💥💥
14. Curtain by Agatha Christie 💥💥💥
15. Surrender My Love by Johanna Lindsey💥💥💥
16. Purple Hibiscus by Chimay Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 💥💥💥💥
17. The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long💥💥💥
18. Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P.J. O’Rouke 💥💥💥
19. Bedding The Heiress by Cathy Maxwell💥💥💥
20. The Bride Wore Scarlet by Liz Carlyle💥💥💥
21. Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates💥💥💥💥
22. The Greek’s Chosen Wife by Lynne Graham💥💥💥
23. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R Cross💥💥💥💥
24. The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt💥💥💥
25. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis💥💥💥
26. The Marriage Ring by Cathy Maxwell💥💥💥
27. Til Death Do Us Part by Cathy Maxwell💥💥💥
28. To Wed a Scandalous Spy by Celeste Bradley💥💥💥
29. A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford💥💥💥.5
30. The Land of Maybe by Sandra Field💥💥💥
31. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry💥💥💥
32. The Maze Runner by James Dashner💥💥💥.5
33. The Scorch Trails by James Dashner💥💥💥.5
34. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling💥💥💥💥💥
35. Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix by JK Rowling💥💥💥💥💥
36. Bloodstream by Tess Gerritsen💥💥💥
37. The Charm School by Susan Wiggs💥💥💥
38. The Cattleman’s English Rose by Barbara Hannay💥💥💥
39. Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Cruise💥💥💥
40. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowlings💥💥💥💥💥
41. Black Water Rising by Attica Locke💥💥💥💥
42. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer💥💥💥💥
43. The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez💥💥💥💥
44. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer💥💥💥💥
45. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer💥💥💥💥
46. Checkmate by Malorie Blackman💥💥💥
47. Alive by Piers Paul Read💥💥💥
48. Ilium By Dan Simmons💥💥💥💥
49. The Italian Boss’s Secret Child by Trish Morey💥💥💥
50. The Shack by WM Paul Young💥💥
51. Switched, Bothered, and Bewildered by Suzanne Macpherson💥💥💥
52. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer💥💥💥💥
53. Fear by Jeff Abbott💥💥💥
54. To the Stars by George Takei💥💥💥💥.5
55. Charmed by Nora Roberts💥💥💥
56. Enchanted by Nora Roberts💥💥💥

Backlog Post: Biia’s Official Peace Corps Movie/Show list:

This is a list of the movies and shows I watched during my peace corps volunteer experience. I like to watch things especially when I eat, before I go to bed, when I do my hair, laying in bed with food poisoning and other maladies and mostly importantly at night when I’m afraid in the middle of the night.

1st I’d like to give a shout out to Netflix for letting me download most of these things to my tablet for offline viewing.

2nd I’d like to thank the other Peace Corps volunteers for letting borrow some of these movies and shows from their hard drive.

And finally I would like to thank all the things that go bump in the middle of the night and the other many night sounds of Benin that have woken me up terrified such as birds and lizards running across my tin roof, rain drops who decided that they actually wanted to be the living embodiments of Posidian’s wrath, goats coughing eerily close to my ears, the wind flexing it’s muscles, Jadzia doing whatever important 1 am task that couldn’t wait til normal hours, bigger lizards chasing smaller lizards to violently devour, goats breaking into my outside patio to tap dance on my desk, goats screaming HELP, crabs stuck in a barrel, if I had a nightmare the lingering feelings of fear and paranoia and delusions, Papa Propertaire’s random 2 am giant gas trucks coming to dump empty gas containers off (please read a giant convoy truck noisily entering my concession followed by yelling men throwing these containers off the truck and goats yelling away into the night in terror), that month when kids kept getting possessed and i would randomly be afraid at night of sorcery and finally those godforsaken dogs who at 3 am every other week howl and yap as if their lives depended on it and they are trying to warn each other and my Village of a danger/threat which could lead to the death of thousands of people but only manage to wake up Biia in a panick who then must triple check her locks and lay awake for hours afterwards and when she asks other people about it NO ONE KNOWS WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT AND SHE IS LABELED AS A DELUSIONAL SCAREDY CAT… until a year later when suddenly your host family understands what you’re talking about lol

Thank you.

Rating Scale
💥 = i regret watching this
💥💥 = meh. Not really for me
💥💥💥 =it was good/fine
💥💥💥💥 =i would own it😊
💥💥💥💥💥 = i would rewatch this hundreds of times. I would own it and pass it down to future generations.

1. Brooklyn 99💥💥💥💥💥
2. Black Mirror 💥💥💥💥
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine💥💥💥💥💥
4. Gurren Lagann💥💥💥💥💥
5. Blue Exorcist 💥💥💥💥💥
6. Jessica Jones💥💥💥
7. Lego Bioncles: the journey to one💥
8. Sherlock Holmes💥💥💥💥💥
9. 13 reasons why💥
10. Peace Corps volunteers movie💥💥💥
11. Elfman💥💥💥
12. Friends💥💥💥
13. Jerry Seinfeld💥💥💥
14. Moana💥💥💥💥💥
15. Monsters INC 💥💥💥💥💥
16. Devil Dare season 1 &2💥💥💥
17. Luke Cage 💥💥💥💥💥
18. Iron Fist💥💥💥
19. Star Trek Voyager 💥💥💥💥💥
20. Gotham 💥💥💥💥💥
21. Cowboy Bebop
22. Dogma 💥💥💥💥💥
23. The Defenders 💥💥💥💥
24. Young Justice 💥💥💥💥💥
25. The Inexplicable Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson💥💥💥💥💥
26. Freaks and Geeks 💥💥💥💥💥
27. Van Helsing (the show) 💥💥
28. Kulipari: An Army of Frogs 💥💥💥💥💥
29. Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo 💥💥💥💥💥
30. Dwayne Perkins: Take Note 💥💥💥💥
31. Lucifer (show) 💥💥💥
32. Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip💥💥💥💥
33. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 💥💥💥💥💥
34. Richard Pryor: Icon 💥💥💥
35. Michael Che Matters 💥💥💥💥
36. Bright 💥💥💥
37. Katt Williams: pimpin pimpin💥💥💥
38. Men in Black💥💥💥💥
39. What happened, Miss Simone💥💥💥
40. Louis C.K.💥💥💥
41. Altered carbon💥💥💥💥
42. Kevin Hart: What now?💥💥💥
43. Arrow💥💥.5
44. Archer💥💥💥💥💥
45. Breaking bad💥💥💥
46. Devil man Crybaby💥💥
47. Orange is the New Black 💥💥💥
48. F is for Family 💥💥💥
49. Black Panther 💥💥💥💥💥
50. Narcos 💥💥💥💥
51. Stranger Things 💥💥💥💥
52. Jurassic World 💥💥💥
53. The Punisher 💥💥💥
54. Coming to America 💥💥💥💥💥
55. The Rain 💥💥💥
56. Doom 💥💥💥
57. The Mist 💥💥💥
58. Star Trek: Enterprise 💥💥💥💥💥
59. Martial Arts of Shaolin 💥💥💥💥
60. Hold the Dark 💥💥.5
61. The Seven Deadly Sins 💥💥💥
62. Chris Rock: Tambourine 💥💥💥
63. Mo Amer: The Vagabond 💥💥💥
64. Joe Rogan: Strange Times 💥💥💥
65. The Package 💥💥💥
66. Baki 💥💥.5
67. One Punch Man 💥💥💥💥💥
68. Bird Box 💥💥💥
69. Marvel’s The Punisher 💥💥💥💥
70. The Good Place 💥💥💥
71. Rurouni Kenshin 💥💥💥💥
72. Hitch 💥💥💥💥
73. Love, Death, & Robots 💥💥💥
74. Dynasty 💥💥💥💥
75. Ajin 💥💥💥
76. Castlevania 💥💥💥
77. Wanda Sykes: Not Normal 💥💥💥
78. Blade of the Immortal 💥💥💥💥
79. Furie 💥💥💥💥
80. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny 💥💥💥💥
81. The Outsider 💥💥💥💥
82. Spartacus: Blood and Sandy 💥💥💥💥💥
83. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K 💥💥💥💥💥
84. Archer 💥💥💥💥
85. Life 💥💥💥
86. The Umbrella Academy 💥💥💥
87. She’s Gotta Have It 💥💥💥
88. Designated Survivor 💥💥💥
89. The Haunting of Hill House 💥💥💥
90. The Lodges 💥💥
91. Dark Shadows 💥💥💥
92. Veronica 💥💥💥
93. Kakegurui 💥💥💥
94. I am the pretty Thing that Lives in the House 💥💥💥
95. Satanic 💥💥💥
96. Event Horizon 💥💥💥
97. The Craft 💥💥💥
98. The Other Guys💥💥💥💥💥
99. Our planet 💥💥💥
100. Sirius the Jaeger 💥💥💥💥
101. Magi Adventure of Sinbad 💥💥💥
102. I am Mother 💥💥💥
103. Queer Eye 💥💥.5
104. 7SEEDS 💥💥💥
105. Another Life 💥💥💥💥
106. Disenchantment 💥💥💥
107. Better Call Saul 💥💥💥💥
108. K 💥💥💥.5
109. Ozark 💥💥💥.5
110. Monsters University 💥💥💥💥
111. Always a Witch 💥💥💥.5
112. Cannon Busters 💥💥💥💥
113. The 100 💥💥💥.5
114. Zoo 💥💥💥
115. Sons of Anarchy 💥💥💥
116. Aggretsuko 💥💥💥
117. My Hero Academia 💥💥💥💥💥
118. Black Clover💥💥💥
119. Boruto💥💥
120. Bob’s burger💥💥💥💥💥
121. House💥💥💥
122. Futurama💥💥💥
123. Attack on Titan💥💥💥💥
124. Avatar: The last air bender💥💥💥💥💥
125. Parasyte 💥💥💥
126. Food Wars💥💥💥💥
127. Adventure Time💥💥💥💥💥
128. Death Parade💥💥💥
129. Erased💥💥💥
130. Fruits Basket💥💥💥