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
[Jan] n/a Never Have Your Dog Stuffed Maisie Dobbs The Rebel Angels
[Feb] n/a The Kite Runner (cancelled) Northanger Abbey
[Mar] n/a Nightfall The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Winnie The Pooh/The Tao of Pooh
[Apr] n/a Saving Fish From Drowning Tulipomania Eat, Pray, Love
[May] n/a The Mermaid Chair The Left Hand of Darkness Fahrenheit 451
[Jun] n/a Blink Stolen Lives The Reluctant Tuscan
[Jul] n/a (none) The Photograph (none)
[Aug] n/a Pope Joan (none - dinner instead) The Chinese Bell Murders
[Sep] Middlesex Undomestic Goddess Sidetracked Reading Lolita in Tehran
[Oct] The Secret Life of Bees Treasure Island Frankenstein Loving Frank
[Nov] The Other Boleyn Girl Fall On Your Knees The Stupidest Angel People of the Book
[Dec] (none) (none) (none) (none)

Books I've read this year - 2008

Jan.: Shooting for 35 books this year.
Jun.: Hit 25 already, going better than expected. Upping to 45 books this year.
Aug: #35 finished Sunday, 3Aug2008.
Oct.: Goal reached, Sunday, 26Oct2008.
  1. Plague Year by Jeff Carlson
  2. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  3. The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies
  4. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  5. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  6. A Meeting At Corvallis by S.M. Stirling
  7. Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn
  8. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
  9. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
  10. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  11. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  12. The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
  13. You Suck by Christopher Moore
  14. A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
  15. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  16. Sabriel by Garth Nix
  17. The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
  18. Rescue in the Pacific by Tony Farrington
  19. The Last Colony by John Scalzi
  20. The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
  21. Lirael: The Daughter of the Clayr by Garth Nix
  22. Abhorsen by Garth Nix
  23. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  24. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack Campbell
  25. The Lost Fleet: Fearless by Jack Campbell
  26. A Song in Stone by Walter H. Hunt (Advanced Reader Copy)
  27. Random Access Murder by Linda Grant
  28. The Lost Fleet: Courageous by Jack Campbell
  29. The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran
  30. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
  31. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - an awesome book
  32. The Dirty Secrets Club by Meg Gardiner
  33. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
  34. The Lost Fleet: Valiant by Jack Campbell
  35. The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik
  36. Across The Wall by Garth Nix
  37. The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
  38. All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese by Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
  39. The Cinderella Pact by Sarah Strohmeyer
  40. Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome by Stephen Dando-Collins
  41. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  42. Into The Woods by Tana French
  43. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  44. Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan
  45. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
  46. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
  47. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
  48. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  49. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris

On the nightstand:

For books read in 2007 - click here

Amusing tidbits

According to the Cadaver Calculator, my dead body is worth $5,775.00

The 15 countries I have visited:

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