Even in bold italic

This is totally John Scalzi's fault.

Warning -- major earworm that not even a judicious application of REO Speedwagon can eradicate.

Books read in 2009

The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine, Tom Standage
Uncommon Arrangements, Katie Roiphe
Star Well, Alexei Panshin (re-read)
Endless Blue, Wen Spencer
Living with Ghosts, Kari Sperring
Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
Flesh and Fire: Book One of the Vineart War, Laura Anne Gilman
Graceling, Kristin Cashore
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Cape Storm, Rachel Caine
Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Larklight, Philip Reeve (decorated throughout by David Wyatt)
Sabriel, Garth Nix
New Amsterdam, Elizabeth Bear
The Mirror Prince, Violette Malan
Narbonic Six, Shaenon K. Garrity
Conspirator, C.J. Cherryh
Thirteenth Child, Patricia C. Wrede
Nine Years Among the Indians, Herman Lehmann, J. Marvin Hunter, and Dale F. Giese
The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life, Gaby Wood
Undone, Rachel Caine
From Dead to Worse, Charlaine Harris
Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
Codespell, Kelly McCullough
Cybermancy, Kelly McCullough
Carousel Tides, Sharon Lee (manuscript)
Fine Prey, Scott Westerfield (re-read)
Web Mage, Kelly McCullough
Uhura's Song, Janet Kagan

Lukey's boat's got a fine fore cuddy, and every seam is chinked with putty

I Dare was published in February 2002.

That's seven years (and eight books), as we count time here in the so-called Real World. However, in story-time, it's only been one hundred and forty-four Standard Days, then to now.

Ahem.

Cake walk.

. . .Uh-huh. . .

Progress on Ghost Ship

9930 / 100000