book and Suki
16. Hidden Empire, Orson Scott Card
15. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Good, good book. It's a sequel to Empire, which I read/listened to last year and enjoyed a lot. The way these books are structured is with an intro written by Averell Torrent (historian, NSA officer, and VP in the first book, President in the second) at the beginning of every chapter and then story. The chapters were a little heavy-handed in this book, a little too hand-holdy and preachy. But the story was great. It started with an epidemic of a new disease in Africa, which Torrent then quarantined. Yes, the whole continent. And then things happen and more things happen and there are some politics and then someone dies and it was sad, and then things happen again and then things wrap up.
Now reading: Hollywood's Stephen King (a critical look at King's films) and Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (a very good history/science/linguistics book about why Europeans got guns, germs, and steel that they then used to dominate and subjugate the other continents).
As for Suki. I swear, if she had opposable [Firefox's spellcheck does not recognize that word. Perhaps because it lacks opposable thumbs?] thumbs, she'd be a superhero. Or, at the very least, a Houdini. This morning, I got out of bed to go to the bathroom and she followed me out of the bedroom. She veered toward the kitchen while I went in the bathroom. I turned and closed the door since Nathan was semi-conscious (I don't bother when he's not home), and I turned around to see Suki jumping into the bathtub. I didn't even know she came in! She's amazing. I should sell tickets.
15. Harem, Dora Levy Mossanen
14. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
13. Knitting Rules! The Yarn Harlot Unravels the Mysteries of Swatching, Stashing, Ribbing, & Rolling to Free Your Inner Knitter, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka the Yarn Harlot
12. Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
11. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells
10. Patient Zero, Jonathon Maberry
9. God's Country, Percival Everett
8. Heart of Stone, C. E. Murphy
7. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero, William Kalush and Larry Sloman
6. The Good Fairies of New York, Martin Millar
5. Limeys: The True Story of One Man's War Against Ignorance, the Establishment and the Deadly Scurvy, David I. Harvie
4. The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
3. Tatham Mound, Piers Anthony
2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank
1. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Good, good book. It's a sequel to Empire, which I read/listened to last year and enjoyed a lot. The way these books are structured is with an intro written by Averell Torrent (historian, NSA officer, and VP in the first book, President in the second) at the beginning of every chapter and then story. The chapters were a little heavy-handed in this book, a little too hand-holdy and preachy. But the story was great. It started with an epidemic of a new disease in Africa, which Torrent then quarantined. Yes, the whole continent. And then things happen and more things happen and there are some politics and then someone dies and it was sad, and then things happen again and then things wrap up.
Now reading: Hollywood's Stephen King (a critical look at King's films) and Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (a very good history/science/linguistics book about why Europeans got guns, germs, and steel that they then used to dominate and subjugate the other continents).
As for Suki. I swear, if she had opposable [Firefox's spellcheck does not recognize that word. Perhaps because it lacks opposable thumbs?] thumbs, she'd be a superhero. Or, at the very least, a Houdini. This morning, I got out of bed to go to the bathroom and she followed me out of the bedroom. She veered toward the kitchen while I went in the bathroom. I turned and closed the door since Nathan was semi-conscious (I don't bother when he's not home), and I turned around to see Suki jumping into the bathtub. I didn't even know she came in! She's amazing. I should sell tickets.