Taking Three Cups of Tea forward with more day-to-day detail about how it works in getting local commitment and external funding for schools in Middle Asia. Very remarkable and inspiring to see how Westerners in the right partnership can make a difference.

It's rare that a second book about the same topic can be even better than the first, but I have to say that I enjoyed Stones into Schools even more that Three Cups of Tea. I thought that this book was excellent! It was a great way to learn more about what has been going on in Pakistan and Afghanistan since 2001, and even more it continues to be an inspiration to see how much this man, and his dirty dozen friends, can impact the lives of girls in the most remote places on earth. We hear so much n...

October 8,2005,a day that remains etched in memory.A killer earthquake struck Pakistan and left unprecedented devastation in its wake.I was not in Pakistan,however,when it happened.But in subsequent years,I have experienced some of the scariest earthquakes imaginable.Luckily,the destruction was not as extreme.Greg Mortensen (of the controversial Three Cups of Tea fame) is the author of this book too.Allegations of fabrications,funds embezzlement and the suicide of his co-author have dented his c...

Originally 4 stars2014 update: After reading some of the controversy surrounding Greg Mortenson, my opinion on him has plummeted. He is accused of fabricating the story of him getting kidnapped by Taliban and the story of getting lost on the way down from K2 and promising the tribe that saved him that he would return to build a school (the whole premise to the book!). He is also accused of gross mismanagement of funds and using donated money for his own purposes, private jets, promoting his book...

Mortenson shows such a power and a confidence in his story in this book. I think one reason is because he keeps the spotlight OFF himself. He tells moving stories of others, making them the heroes and heroines of his book. He talks honestly about how uncomfortable he feels with attention, and he generously shares the credit for the successes of his schools with so many others.His stories made me laugh out loud, like the Taliban sympathizers who visit a school and play gleefully on the playground...

Read 2/3 of this paperback edition book. Two trusted friends on GR told me there was a controversy surrounding this author. I saw a PBS News Hour segment & reference to a 60 Minutes segment (from 2011). Greg Mortenson started the Central Asia Institute (CAI) in 1996. PBS + others questioned CAI fund-raising & how funds were spent and did Greg use CAI funds for planes for fund-raising etc? They asked were Greg's speaker fees deposited into CAI's account? They also alleged that CAI built less scho...

An outstanding read ... if you enjoyed "Three Cups of Tea," you will enjoy this more... it is the content and the purpose that makes it so great. Unfortunately I think that some people were turned off by the title of his first book by not understanding the message (it is not about little old ladies sipping tea and gossiping.) "Stones into Bridges" picks up where his first book left off, and is current right up to October 2009. Greg Mortenson has received well deserved recognition for what he and...

I learned so much about Greg Mortenson, the man, when reading this wonderful book. His sense of humor, his passion, his mission is heard and felt throughout this story. Now I really understand what the CAI is, and who the people are that run it. The Central Asia Institute is run by quirky, brave people who Greg met throughout his travels to Pakistan and Afganistan and found worthy enough to help him fulfill his dream of building schools for girls in the remote regions of Pakistan, and now Afgani...

I ran to the library to get this pretty much the moment I finished Three Cups of Tea, and I found it to be a enjoyable continuation of the story. Most of my thoughts on this are already mirrored in my review of the first book, so I won’t repeat myself. The only real qualm I had was that the first 100 pages of this were a lot like a paraphrase of the last 100 pages of Three Cups of Tea, where the author tries to lay the groundwork for how his charity attempted to make headway into Afghanistan. On...

Following where Three Cups of Tea left off, Stones into Schools is Greg Mortenson's account of his nonprofit Central Asia Institute's endeavors to build schools for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Early on in the book, Mortenson tells of meeting a band of Kirghiz horsemen, who extract a promise from him to build a school in a remote region of Afghanistan. This was 1999, and the promise came with a multitude of difficulties, not the least of which was the conflict between the increasing power

As a followup to Three Cups of Tea, I found this book to be very interesting and timely. If you haven't read the first book, you might not be able to follow along as easily with the various people and places mentioned, although the books do stand alone. It is a quick read and I was highly impressed with the way that the small organization, Central Asia Institute, has blossomed with financial support and additional manpower to become a powerful force in bringing much-needed education to children

Amazing read especially when you think that the only news coming out of Pakistan and Afghanistan is bad. Would some body please nominate Greg Mortenson for a Nobel Peace Prize. He and hisDozen" have done more for world peace, interfaith understanding, and girls' education in 15 years than "Dirty anyone--even he--would have ever dreamed possible. He has coordinated the building of over 100 schools, where thousands of children, mostly girls are receiving a moderate, secular education. Books not bo...

Absolutely excellent! I couldn't put this book down. Dr. Greg's initial plan to build schools to serve female students in remote villages evolves with the situations he encounters, so that he expands into Taliban strongholds and in the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. He is not a micro manager, and instead uses his gift of perception to hire the smartest, hardest working Afghanis from rural areas with humble backgrounds. He trusts and relies on them to implement his dream of universal

This book, which picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off, is different and better than Mortenson's first book about his quest to build schools for small villages in Pakistan and Afghanistan. To begin with, there is no ghost writer. This is a first person account. So unlike the last book, it is more personal, and the reader gets more insight into the passion about school building that has consumed Mortenson. Some of the stories he tells are quite touching. On the road to a distant mountain vill...

I hesitated getting this book because I thought it might be, like a lot of sequels, just a rehash of "Three Cups of Tea". Well, it emphatically is not! It reads like a good novel. It's engaging, thought provoking and very informative. The author gives the reader a full sense of the isolation, beauty and destruction that exists in the remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also gives a full sense of the people who populate those devastated areas. It is hard to imagine the everyday hardships...

Oh my gosh... Stunning. Those are four words that sum up my feelings about this incredible book... basically. The ending is dramatic and sad, while simultaneously showing us that even while it seems that everything that could possibly go bad in Afghanistan is, there are also those who are trying to defy it. Those who are trying to help others, and those who are trying to offer education, health, and necessities to people who deserve it. I finished this book upstairs, while downstairs my parents