Reading List

...which is to say, books I've read thus far in 2006.  The mountain of books to be read is much too lengthy to include here.

...basically just a list for my own information...

The Carousel Keepers, Carrie Papa
The Celestial Steam Locomotive, Michael Coney
Worldwired, Elizabeth Bear
Fire Sanctuary, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Pretender, C.J. Cherryh
Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt
Skeletons in the Zahara, Dean King
Dead to the World, Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail, Charlaine Harris
Saturday Night at Moody's Diner, Tim Sample
Fruits Basket, Volumes 8-13, Natsuki Takaya
Uglies, Scott Westerfield
Pretties, Scott Westerfield
Narbonic, Volume 3, Shaenon K. Garrity
Murder with Peacocks, Donna Andrews
Murder with Puffins, Donna Andrews
The Man Behind the Iron Mask, John Noone
It Happened in Maine, Gail Underwood Parker
Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees
Blood and Iron, Elizabeth Bear
The Unstrung Harp, or: Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel, Edward Gorey

It drips

...and I see it is forecast to drip for the rest of the week, without getting above the mid-70s(F).  I can live with this.

Frittering the day away:  Finished my book, read another (very short) book, started yet another.  Took an short outside walk before the rain started; played Flying Mouse with Mozart; balanced the SRM checkbook (for July, sigh); updated the subscriber database for Allies; paid for, downloaded, installed, and immediately used Agent 4.0 (are you listening, Symantec?); made baby red-white-and-blue potatoes with onions, sausage and cheese for dinner (yum).  

Pretty soon, I need deal with the dinner clean-up and take another (inside, alas) walk, and then open up a file and start already with the original story for Allies.  Once that's out of the way, I can read Balance of Trade and make notes for the sequel.