Pictures of us

At at TT Owners brunch in Annapolis, 2000
Freezing our tails off in Iceland, 2001
Black Forest folk customes, Halloween 2003
Getting instructions at the Calgary Olympic Bobsled Run, Feb 2006
Dole Pineapple plantation, Oahu, Hawai'i, Feb 2007

A neighborhood book club started late 2005. Here's what we've read so far...

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
[Jan]	n/a	Never Have Your Dog Stuffed	Maisie Dobbs	The Rebel Angels	Gulliver's Travels	The Unthinkable
[Feb]	n/a	The Kite Runner	(cancelled)	Northanger Abbey	The Shack	The Help
[Mar]	n/a	Nightfall	The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay	Winnie The Pooh/The Tao of Pooh	Beloved	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
[Apr]	n/a	Saving Fish From Drowning	Tulipomania	Eat, Pray, Love	(delayed)	(delayed)
[May]	n/a	The Mermaid Chair	The Left Hand of Darkness	Fahrenheit 451	Water For Elephants	The Glass Room
[Jun]	n/a	Blink	Stolen Lives	The Reluctant Tuscan	The Big Over Easy	Death at La Fenice
[Jul]	n/a	(none)	The Photograph	(none)	(none)	The Know-It-All
[Aug]	n/a	Pope Joan	(none)	The Chinese Bell Murders	The Piano Tuner	Old Man's War
[Sep]	Middlesex	Undomestic Goddess	Sidetracked	Reading Lolita in Tehran	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Anna Karenina
[Oct]	The Secret Life of Bees	Treasure Island	Frankenstein	Loving Frank	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
[Nov]	The Other Boleyn Girl	Fall On Your Knees	The Stupidest Angel	People of the Book	(none)
[Dec]	(none)	(none)	(none)	(none)	The Reader

Upcoming book club selections:
Aug - Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Sept - Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy
Oct - The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
Nov - The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Dec - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Jan 2011 - Heat by Bill Buford

Books I've read this year - 2010

The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
Lamentation by Ken Scholes
After The Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi (short story)
Blindsight by Peter Watts
Motherless by Jim Adam (end of Jan 2010)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The City and The City by China Mielville
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [end of Feb 2010]
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Queen's Dollmaker by Christina Trent
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Plague War by Jeff Carlson
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby [end of March 2010]
The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) by Patrick Rothfuss [end of April 2010]
Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
The Lost Fleet: Victorious by Jack Campbell
The Dark Wing by Walter H. Hunt
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris (book #20 in week #20)
Canticle by Ken Scholes
Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle by Patrick Rothfuss
With The Old Breed by E. B. Sledge
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
In the Wake of the Plague by Norman Cantor
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

On the nightstand
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (this one's going to take a while)

On the backburner:
Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition by Andrew Friedman
After the Flood by Margaret Atwood (audio)
Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike by John A. Salmond

Books read in 2009 - click here
Books read in 2008 - click here
Books read in 2007 - click here

Amusing tidbits

According to the Cadaver Calculator, my dead body is worth $5,675 in 2009 (it was worth $5,775 in 2008).

The 15 countries I have visited:

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