Classified Eclectic

Books Read in 2011

2012-01-03T01:03:00.001-05:00

January
Time Out For Happiness, Frank B. Gilbreth
Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island, Jo Anne Van Tillburg
Rocket science, Jay Lake
Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer

February
Land of the Silver Apples, Nancy Farmer
The Islands of the Blessed, Nancy Farmer
I Can Jump Puddles, Alan Marshall
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
DragonSinger, Anne McCaffrey
Wildside, Steven Gould
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
Jumping Off the Planet,Steven Gerrold
Library Mashups, ed. Nicole England

March
Bouncing Off the Moon, Steven Gerrold
Leaping to the Stars, Steven Gerrold
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre

April
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (Percy and the Olympians 1)
One of Our Thursdays is Missing, Jasper Fforde
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson

May
Notes from a Big Country, Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Old Man's War, John Scalzi
The Third Lynx, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 2)
The King's Speech, Mark Logue

June
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
Cobra Alliance, Timothy Zahn (Cobra War 1)
Cobra Guardian, Timothy Zahn (Cobra War 2)
The Design of Future Things, Donald Norman
In Fire Forged, ed. David Weber (Worlds of Honor 5)
StarSong and Other Stories, Timothy Zahn
Angry Young Spaceman, Jim Munroe
The Alchemy of Air, Thomas Hager
The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan (Percy and the Olympians 2)
The Thieves of Ostia, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 1)

July
The Secrets of Vesuvius, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 2)
The Pirates of Pompeii, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 3)
Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
Mission of Honor, David Weber (Honor Harrington 11)
Le sort du Titan, Rick Riordan (Percy and the Olympians 3)
The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan (Percy and the Olympians 4)
The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan (Percy and the Olympians 5)
Oath of Fealty, Elizabeth Moon
Trimalchio's Feast and other mini-mysteries, Caroline Lawrence
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter 7)
Les assassins de Rome, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 4)
The Dolphins of Laurentum, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 5)
The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 6)
Everyone in Silico, Jim Munroe
The Third Lynx, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail)
Odd Girl Out, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail)

August
Lost in Moscow, Kirsten Koza
The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan (The Heroes of Olympus 1)
More Than Honor, David Weber
Worlds of Honor, David Weber
Les ennemis de jupiter, Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries 7)
The Throne of Fire, Rick Riordan (Kane Chronicles 2)
Dragonback 1-6, Timothy Zahn
Service of the Sword, David Weber

September
Kings of the North, Elizabeth Moon
Legacy, James H. Schmitz
Slan hunter, A.E. van Vogt and Kevin J. Anderson
Liaden Unibus I, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
Liaden Unibus II, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
A Beautiful Friendship, David Weber

October
At Home, Bill Bryson
The Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson

November
Scorpia Rising, Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider 9)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Amy Chua
This Can't be Happening at MacDonald Hall, Gordon Korman
Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Dear Parents, and the Language of Love, Myron Uhlberg
Beware the Fish!, Gordon Korman
Commodork: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie, Rob O'Hara
Go Jump in the Pool!, Gordon Korman
The Zucchini Warriors, Gordon Korman
In the Land of Invented Languages, Arika Okrent
Adventure of the Lady on the embankment, Lois McMaster Bujold
MacDonald Hall Goes Hollywood, Gordon Korman
The War with Mr. Wizzle, Gordon Korman
Something Fishy at McDonald Hall, Gordon Korman
How Firm a Foundation, David Weber
Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Imposters, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Barons, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Betrayed, Margaret Peterson Haddix

December
Among the Brave, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Enemy, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Free, Margaret Peterson Haddix
A Rising Thunder, David Weber
At All Costs, David Weber
Conflict of Honors, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan
Time Warp Trio Series, Jon Scieszka
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America, Jeff Ryan
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
The Throne of Fire, Rick Riordan
Island in the Sea of Time, S.M. Stirling
Against the Tide of Years, S.M. Stirling

CAIS/ACSI 2011

2011-07-04T22:18:00.001-04:00

This year CAIS was in Fredericton with Congress 2011. I like having CAIS as part of the Congress, even though I haven't actually been to any other association's sessions in a few years.

Congress was jointly sponsored by the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, both in the same area. I stayed at the St. Thomas residences, which were actually off campus, but there was a walking path to campus.

I presented a poster in CAIS' inaugural poster session on the subject of tagging and controlled vocabularies. Here's a link to the poster abstract: http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2011/24_Kipp.pdf

Here are some photos from Congress: a view of campus, the NB Provincial Archives and the Harriet Irving Library where most of the CAIS sessions were held. The photo doesn't really do justice to the campus which is quite hilly.

Books Read in 2010

2011-01-01T16:32:00.000-05:00

January
Torch of Freedom, Eric Flint and David Weber
Hunting Party, Elizabeth Moon
Sporting Chance, Elizabeth Moon
Winning Colours, Elizabeth Moon
By Schism Rent Asunder, David Weber
By Heresies Distressed, David Weber
Midshipman Bolitho, Alexander Kent
Wildside, Stephen Gould
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Star Hatchling, Margaret Bechard
The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer
The Land of the Silver Apples, Nancy Farmer

February
The Islands of the Blessed, Nancy Farmer
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Partners in Necessity, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Plan B, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff
The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Starclimber, Kenneth Oppel (Airborn 3)

March
Airborn, Kenneth Oppel (Airborn 1)
Night Train to Rigel, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 1)
The Third Lynx, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 2)
Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel (Airborn 2)
Dragon and Thief, Timothy Zahn (Dragonback 1)
Odd Girl Out, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 3)
The Domino Pattern, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 4)
Dragon and Soldier, Timothy Zahn (Dragonback 2)
From Anna, Jean Little
The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer
Between Planets, Robert A. Heinlein
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson

April
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
The Outback Stars, Sandra McDonald
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
By Heresies Distressed, David Weber
Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, Jasper Fforde
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Manta's Gift, Timothy Zahn
Crocodile Tears, Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider 8)
Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Dragon and Slave, Timothy Zahn (Dragonback 3)
Oath of Fealty, Elizabeth Moon

May
Wildside, Steven Gould
Dragon and Herdsman, Timothy Zahn (Dragonback 4)
Jumper, Steven Gould
Mike at Wyrkyn, P.G. Wodehouse
Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Elizabeth Moon
A Thousand Words for Stranger, Julie E. Czerneda
The Galactic Gourmet, James White
Dragon and Judge, Timothy Zahn (Dragonback 5)
Dragon and Liberator, Timothy Zahn (Dragonback 6)

June
In Fury Born, David Weber
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
The Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
Search, John Battelle
Night Train to Rigel, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 1)
The Third Lynx, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 2)
Odd Girl Out, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 3)
DreamPark, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes

July
The Domino Pattern, Timothy Zahn (Quadrail 4)
Slow Train to Arcturus, Dave Freer and Eric Flint
The Galactic Gourmet, James White (Sector General)
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
Fledgling, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

August
The Med Series, Murray Leinster
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
Final Diagnosis, James White
Angry Young Spaceman, Jim Munroe
Changer of Worlds, David Weber
For the Win, Cory Doctorow
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde
Major, Rick Shelley

September
Lieutenant Colonel, Rick Shelley
Colonel, Rick Shelley
The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Truth of Valor, Tanya Huff
Space Cops 2: Kill Station, Diane Duane and Peter Morwood
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
Return to Camerein, Rick Shelley

October
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness and Genius, Arika Okrent
A Mighty Fortress, David Weber
The Language Construction Kit, Mark Rosenfelder
The Radioactive Boy Scout, Ken Silverstein

November
A Wizard of Mars, Diane Duane
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
Cryoburn, Lois McMaster Bujold

December
Belles on their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel
Starclimber, Kenneth Oppel
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science, Carol Kaesuk Yoon
The Galactic Gourmet, James White (Sector General)
Final Diagnosis, James White (Sector General)

CAIS and ASIST 2010

2010-11-14T15:53:00.006-05:00

This year I attended two conferences: CAIS/ACSI (Canadian Association for Information Science) Conference and ASIST (American Society for Information Science and Technology) Annual General Meeting.

CAIS was in Montreal this year, at Concordia. I had been to conferences at McGill and Montreal before, but had never been to Concordia. I also never realised Concordia was so close to McGill.

At CAIS, I presented a short paper:

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems: An Examination of Tagging Practices Over a Four Year Period. Proceedings of the 38th Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, QC, June 5-7, 2010. http://cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2010/CAIS042_Kipp_final.pdf

Here are a few pictures from Montreal (cathedral, rental bike system).

ASIST was in Pittsburgh this year. I had never been to Pittsburgh before, except when transferring between flights, so the city was new to me. The hotel was right near the river.

The conference had a different structure this year which I both liked and disliked. I ended up liking the poster session because more people attended it (last year I was in the poster session on the last day which many people were forced to miss in order to make their flights) but did not like the organisation of the conference. Having the workshops midweek meant I was unable to attend since I am teaching face-to-face classes this term.

I presented 3 posters at ASIST including two posters co-authored with doctoral students.

Here is a list of the posters:

Kipp, Margaret E.I. and Joo, Soohyung. 2010. Application of Structural Equation Modelling in Exploring Tag Patterns: A Pilot Study. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. [Best Poster Award ASIST 2010]

Lu, Kun and Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Can Collaborative Tagging Improve Retrieval Effectiveness? -- An Experimental Study. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kipp, Margaret E.I. 2010. Convergence and divergence in tagging systems: An examination of tagging practices over a four year period. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://eprints.rclis.org/19244/

The first poster in the list won the ASIST 2010 Best Poster Award.

Here are a few pictures from Pittsburgh:

Books Read in 2009

2010-01-01T09:00:00.001-05:00

January
Midshipman's Hope, David Feintuch
Challenger's Hope, David Feintuch
Prisoner's Hope, David Feintuch
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer, David Leavitt
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card
Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card
Hot Six, Janet Evanovich
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
The Interior Life, Katherine Blake
How Much for Just the Planet?, John M. Ford
Uhura's Song, Janet Kagan

February
The Rising, James Doohan and S. M. Stirling
The Privateer, James Doohan and S. M. Stirling
The Independent Command, James Doohan and S. M. Stirling
Seven Up, Janet Evanovich
Hard Eight, Janet Evanovich
A Just Determination, John G. Hemry
Burden of Proof, John G. Hemry
Rule of Evidence, John G. Hemry
Orvis, H. M. Hoover

March
To the Nines, Janet Evanovich
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
The IDIC Epidemic, Jean Lorrah
Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles, George G. Szpiro
Against All Enemies, John G. Hemry
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich
Storm from the Shadows, David Weber
Everything is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger
Hellspark, Janet Kagan

April
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
Beginning Operations, James White
Alien Emergencies, James White
Code Blue - Emergency, James White
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling

May
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
The Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede
Eleven on Top, Janet Evanovich
Twelve Sharp, Janet Evanovich
Hunting Party, Elizabeth Moon
Sporting Chance, Elizabeth Moon
Winning Colours, Elizabeth Moon
Jumper - Griffin's Story, Steven Gould

June
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
Masterharper of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
Officer Cadet, Rick Shelley
Lieutenant, Rick Shelley
Side Show, Rick Shelley
Jump Pay, Rick Shelley
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon
Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
Old Man's War, John Scalzi
Overclocked, Cory Doctorow
Jumping off the Planet, David Gerrold
Bouncing off the Moon, David Gerrold
Leaping to the Stars, David Gerrold
I-Robot, Isaac Asimov
Blood Trail, Tanya Huff
Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles, George G. Szpiro
The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi
The Last Colony, John Scalzi

July
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Escape Orbit, James White

August
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
Deception Point, Dan Brown
Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski
Land of the Silver Apples, Nancy Farmer

September
Wildside, Stephen Gould
General Practice, James White
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford

October
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia's Honour, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Islands of the Blessed, Nancy Farmer
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

November
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Bloodhound, Tamora Pierce
The Silent Stars Go By, James White
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Land of the Silver Apples, Nancy Farmer
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold

December
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Danny Dunn and the Fossil Cave, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn Invisible Boy, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
A Coming of Age, Timothy Zahn
Cobra Alliance, Timothy Zahn
Off Armageddon Reef, David Weber

ASIST 2009

2009-12-29T15:51:00.018-05:00

This year ASIST was in Vancouver. Vancouver is of course busy preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics so many olympic things are spread around the city. I walked around and looked at the many new eagle statues and the olympic rings in the harbour.

I presented two posters at the conference. The first was at the SIG-CR workshop pre-conference session and the second was in the 3rd poster session of the main conference. Considering it was the last day of the conference in the afternoon there were a fair number of people who came to view the posters.

Exploring Measures of Inter-Tagger Consistency. SIG-CR Workshop Poster, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eprints.rclis.org/17218/

Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eprints.rclis.org/17348/

And of course the view on the flight out is good too...

Canoeing on the Ottawa River

2009-08-19T22:19:00.003-04:00

Thesis: Defended

2009-07-24T18:36:00.011-04:00

On July 20th I defended my thesis titled "Information Organisation Practices on the Web: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information"

I wrote the entire thesis in OpenOffice on a Linux based computer and used Calc and OpenStat to do most of the calculations. I also used CiteULike to record my references. If nothing else, this certainly proves that OpenOffice is a full blown office suite.

The thesis is based on a series of conference and journal papers, so perhaps 50 or 60% of the material has already been published or presented at conferences. I thought the method worked well for an emerging phenomenon.

Canadian Copyright Consultation

2009-07-24T18:29:00.004-04:00

Consultations on copyright have begun. There are already a number of interesting comments.

Michael Geist has also put together a website to keep track of discussion on the official government site: http://speakoutoncopyright.ca/.

Privacy and Copyright

2009-07-17T16:37:00.001-04:00

Calgary Herald: No place for state in our hard drives?

Pope Benedict XVI encyclical letter denounces excessive zeal for assertions of intellectual property rights in knowledge

2009-07-17T16:33:00.003-04:00

Pope Benedict XVI encyclical letter denounces excessive zeal for assertions of intellectual property rights in knowledge.

Government consultations on Canadian Copyright Reform

2009-07-16T17:27:00.003-04:00

This time the government is going to run consultations before tabling another copyright bill. The last copyright bill read like a wish list of the big entertainment industries, so hopefully the next will have a more Canadian focus.

CBC: Canadian copyright forums could begin next week

Baby Rabbit in the Grass

2009-07-09T16:41:00.003-04:00

As the saying goes: Never annoy a bard, for they are not subtle, and your name scans to Greensleeves

2009-07-09T16:25:00.002-04:00

The story: http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/story/united-breaks-guitars
The music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

Unbalanced Privacy

2009-06-23T16:24:00.002-04:00

The Government of Canada proposes to tip the balance between privacy and security by removing the need for the police to get a warrant before they can monitor your Internet usage...

Ottawa Citizen: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Technology/balance/1722732/story.html

Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement

2009-05-27T12:23:00.004-04:00

More on the Conference Board of Canada's Digital Economy report... I must say that I am disturbed that my Ontario taxes may have helped to pay for a plagiarised report based on dubious data. Hopefully the wider circulation of these issues will increase public awareness of the impending copyright bill, which will no doubt be a mirror of the previous failed Bill C-61.

CBC: Conference Board report on copyright draws criticism

Ottawa Citizen: Debate intensifies over independent think-tank's report on copyright: Conference Board didn't include results of commissioned research paper

Vancouver Sun: Will the real Blackbeard please stand up?

Michael Geist: Conference Board Plagiarism Story Front Page News For Second Day

More Canadian Copyright Controversy

2009-05-26T17:15:00.003-04:00

Michael Geist continues to keep an eye on the corporate and government propaganda concerning copyright reform... for good reason. Here is another example of attempts to make Canada sound like a haven for piracy, when in fact there is ample evidence to show that Canada is far down the list.

Conference Board Plagiarism Story Front Page News, Gov't Says It Contributed $15K To Report

Conference Board Ignored Independent Study Commissioned For Digital Economy Report

In fact, Canada's current copyright laws already deal appropriately with commercial infringement and so far all attempts to enforce draconian anticircumvention laws that only hurt legitimate customers and don't deter copyright infringement have failed. Hopefully this will continue.

Trip to Huntington, May 15th

2009-05-26T15:20:00.006-04:00

My father and I drove to Huntington to look around at some historical sites. I had been to Huntington once before on the train.

Pictures from top to bottom: Heckscher Museum of Art, Heckscher Park, Huntington's September 11th memorial.

MDS Nordion 10K - Ottawa Race Weekend

2009-05-26T15:13:00.007-04:00

This past weekend was the Ottawa Race Weekend (on Facebook). My mother and I walked the 10K again this year and managed a time a bit faster than last year's. My sister also ran the marathon.

The shorter races centre around the Rideau Canal which is a nice walk at anytime.

Red Cross 2nd Annual Walk for Local Disaster Relief

2009-04-25T12:35:00.005-04:00

Today I participated in the 2009 Red Cross Walk for Local Disaster Relief in Eisenhower Park. There's also a facebook group.

Fog in Eisenhower Park

2009-04-25T12:33:00.002-04:00

Theodore Roosevelt Nature Centre at Jones Beach State Park

2009-04-14T23:53:00.005-04:00

A few shots of the sand dunes around the Theodore Roosevelt Nature Centre at Jones Beach State Park.

Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island

2009-03-11T16:29:00.003-04:00

Visited the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, LI.

American Museum of Natural History, NYC

2009-03-09T21:47:00.008-04:00

Visited the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium.

20 cm of Snow on Long Island

2009-03-03T12:55:00.003-05:00

Snow in Manhattan

2009-02-12T23:39:00.008-05:00

A few photos from the snowfall in the NYC area on February 3rd...

Jones Beach in Winter

2009-01-25T00:49:00.002-05:00

Snow in Eisenhower Park

2009-01-18T23:23:00.004-05:00

Books Read in 2008

2009-01-01T09:00:00.001-05:00

January
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
A Scholar of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet, Walt Whitman
Hellpsark, Janet Kagan

February
Beginning Operations, James White
Alien Emergencies, James White
The Silent Stars Go By, James White
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
Trading in Danger, Elizabeth Moon
Marque and Reprisal, Elizabeth Moon
Engaging the Enemy, Elizabeth Moon

March
Command Decision, Elizabeth Moon
Victory Conditions, Elizabeth Moon
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
The Tie that Binds, P.G. Wodehouse
The Eyre Affaire, Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde
Survey Ship, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
The Girl in Blue, P.G. Wodehouse

April
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affaire, Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
The Fourth Bear, Jasper Fforde
The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels, Jasper Fforde
Higher Education, Charles Sheffield
The Billion Dollar Boy, Charles Sheffield
Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little
Until Relieved, Rick Shelley
Side Show, Rick Shelley

May
Jump Pay, Rick Shelley
The Buchannan Campaign, Rick Shelley
Fires of Coventry, Rick Shelley
The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde
The Fourth Bear, Jasper Fforde
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford

June
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
Wildside, Steven Gould
Valor's Trial, Tanya Huff
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
Two for the Dough, Janet Evanovich

July
Shopaholic And Sister, Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Sophie Kinsella
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
Shopaholic And Baby, Sophie Kinsella
The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel

August
Helm, Steven Gould
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
Forever in Blue, Ann Brashares
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford

September
This Time of Darkness, H.M. Hoover
Apple is My Sign, Mary Riskind
From Anna, Jean Little
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little

October
A Coming of Age, Timothy Zahn
Wildside, Steven Gould
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
The Dreamweaver's Dilemma, Lois McMaster Bujold

November
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Point Blank, Anthony Horowitz
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Three to Get Deadly, Janet Evanovich
Four to Score, Janet Evanovich
High Five, Janet Evanovich
Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
Eagle Strike, Anthony Horowitz
Scorpia, Anthony Horowitz
Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR, Kirsten Koza
Ark Angel, Anthony Horowitz
Stark's War, John G. Hemry
Stark's Command, John G. Hemry
Stark's Crusade, John G. Hemry

December
This Time of Darkness, H.M. Hoover
Remix, Lawrence Lessig
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
The Zucchini Warriors, Gordon Korman
Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood, Gordon Korman
Go Jump in the Pool, Gordon Korman
The War with Mister Wizzle, Gordon Korman
I Want to Go Home, Gordon Korman
No Coins Please, Gordon Korman

Snowshoeing along the Ottawa River

2008-12-28T21:28:00.001-05:00

ASIST 2008

2008-12-28T20:28:00.000-05:00

ASIST 2008 was in Columbus, Ohio this year in October 24-29. I spent some time locating a reasonably priced hotel close enough to the conference hotel that I could walk or within a reasonable bus ride from the hotel. I scored a hit with a hotel that was "just down the street" in other words a 29 minute walk away, but had two buses that would take me to the conference... plus this hotel had free wireless and breakfast.

Columbus has what appeared to be a relatively heavily used bus system, Columbus Ohio Transit Association (COTA). There is actually a bus from the airport, but in order to get downtown you have to transfer at an out of the way location. The building behind the bus is a church, so it was actually busy Sunday when I flew in.

At ASIST I presented a poster which continued on from work I had presented the previous year in 2007. Both this year's poster and last year's poster are now available online.

I also spoke as part of a panel titled Tagging as a Communication Device. This panel grew out of a collaboration on an ASIST panel in 2007 and the work we did in turning the 2007 panel into an article for Ariadne.

A number of people commented favourably on the panel, which is terrific since we worked hard to make the panel interesting. I was quite pleased with how well the various sections fit together. So try the following for some notes and perspectives on the panel:

One last picture from Columbus:

ISKO 2008

2008-11-01T13:51:00.000-04:00

This year the International Society for Knowledge Organization's biennial conference was held in Montréal, Québec at Université de Montréal. The conference was sponsored by École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information.

The conference ran from the 5th to the 8th of August, a good thing since Montréal can be horribly hot in the summer. I had never been to the U Montréal campus before. It is accessible via the subway, though there is a transfer, and the campus is quite hilly as it is literally built into the side of Mont Royal.

I presented a paper based on a study I have been doing examining how users select search terms when searching traditional online databases versus social tagging sites. The paper is now available online. Slides from the presentation are already available. Previously, I had presented a poster at ASIST in 2007 with preliminary results from this study.

Conservatives Promising to Reintroduce Bill C61 if They Win

2008-10-09T13:24:00.000-04:00

... makes me glad I already voted... and voted Anything But Conservative.

True copyright reform would not take away my fair dealing rights just because the item is in electronic format... nor would I be required to hide course notes I have written for courses I teach behind a login screen or rewrite them every term because I have cited or quoted someone else's work. True scholarship, whether in teaching or research, is founded on citation.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/07/tech-conservatives.html?ref=rss

The 2008 Election and Copyright Reform

2008-09-28T17:13:00.000-04:00

Though Bill C-61 ceased when parliament was dissolved, there is considerable evidence that the conservative party will continue to push its copyright agenda despite protests by many of the sectors of the population which the party claims will benefit from something like this bill. Public consultation was not on the conservative agenda in the 39th parliament and there is no indication that it will be in the 40th. Concerned citizens will want to have their say. Since copyright reform will have a serious impact on my research and teaching, I will be having my say at the polls by voting Anything But Conservative.

My concerns with the previous efforts to reform the copyright act are numerous, but the most egregious example of lack of concern for the public, the arts and the sciences in Canada is the clause in Bill C-61 which would have allowed a copyright owner to override our fair dealing rights in an electronic environment using digital rights management or technological protection mechanisms (also known as digital locks). Fair dealing is a hard won user right allowing Canadians to make full and reasonable use of a copyrighted item for research, education and private scholarship without the need for additional payments or the permission of the copyright owner. The need to seek permission for a use has an enormous chilling effect on research and scholarship as a copyright owner might refuse the right to perform research, cite, criticise or review an item where in the past such usages have been protected by fair dealing. The ability to cite and potentially to critique is a requirement for true scholarship.

Equally of concern are the requirements that materials for educational purposes and for inter library loan be distributed using digital locks which will expire at the end of a ridiculously short loan period (5 days) or at the end of a semester. This would mean that students would lose access to articles required for class after a very short period, penalising students with busy lives or learning disabilities. Likewise, students would lose access to class materials at the end of the term, materials which they have traditionally been free to keep for future reference after a class has concluded.

Finally, the government has shown no leadership in the area of open access to scientific research and the repeal of crown copyright. Many governments have begun to realise that research funded or gathered using government funds should be openly available to all citizens and not locked behind a digital lock, but the government of Canada has shown no leadership in this area.

Digital locks should never be allowed to override our fair dealing rights and I only hope our new government will be able to see the potential harm of the conservative approach to copyright reform in Bill C-61.

Bill C-61 Makes You a Criminal

2008-07-27T14:02:00.000-04:00

People break digital locks (DRM) every day in order to exercise their rights under the current copyright law. Researchers and academics break DRM in order to review and critique digital materials, they collect digital information in order to analyse it (a process known as data-mining), they create software designed to test the limits of current security and encryption tools (like DRM) and use quotes and citations from digital materials in their research and teaching. All of these activities are protected by fair dealing rights under the current copyright regime. All will become illegal if Bill C-61 passes.

Breaking DRM in order to exercise fair dealing rights for scholarship, private study and personal growth should never be illegal. Researchers, academics, business people, hobbyists, artists and other creators should not be stifled by unreasonable limitations.

Also see: Michael Geist: 61 Reforms to C-61, Day 25: TPMs - Research Exception Limited to Encryption and Security Testing

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Happy Canada Day!

2008-07-01T23:34:00.000-04:00

Canadian Association for Information Science Conference 2008

2008-06-22T17:35:00.001-04:00

The Canadian Association for Information Science Conference (CAIS) was part of the Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Vancouver at UBC from June 5th to June 8th. CAIS is large enough that there are always new people attending, but small enough that I can actually attend a high percentage of the talks. This is great because I can get a larger picture of the types of research other people are doing in the field of library and information science.

This year I presented additional results from a study of affective (emotional) and subjective tags used on social bookmarking tools. These are tags like @toread, cool and fun. The paper is available from the CAIS website: http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2008/kipp_2008.pdf and the presentation is available here: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00013789/

Here are a few pictures from the UBC campus (Library and sunset):

And a few pictures from Vancouver in general (Chinatown Night Market, Vancouver Aquarium):

Opposition to Canada's DMCA - Bill C61

2008-06-20T15:44:00.000-04:00

The government of Canada needs to know that the majority of opposition to Bill C-61 is not because people want to protect their "right" to download copyrighted material without paying for it. The opposition is due to people wanting to protect their existing fair dealing rights under copyright law. Fair dealing allows Canadians to make copies for education, research and private study. All these rights will disappear if Bill C-61's anti-circumvention provisions make it into law because it will be illegal to break the DRM on music, videos or ebooks even to exercise your perfectly legal fair dealing rights. Scholarship, criticism, review and parody rely on the ability to copy sections of a work. All these perfectly legitimate actions will be negatively affected by Bill C-61.

The amusing thing in all this debate is that (and others have pointed this out too) it will actually be better for a person to download a file illegally from the Internet if this bill is passed than to get caught breaking DRM on a legally purchased item in order to exercise their fair dealing rights. Downloading will after all only be a $500 dollar fine (per item)... breaking DRM is a $20 000 dollar fine (per item)!

CBC Radio's show Search Engine interviewed Minister Prentice about the bill. See more here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/canadian-industry-mi-2.html

While Prentice was unwilling to answer questions on a live radio show, he has been writing letters to the editor and sending the same misleading emails to Canadians who write to demand public consultation and balanced copyright reform: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3055/125/

McGill University has launched a wiki where Canadians can help draft a more balanced copyright act than Bill C-61 http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/announcements/item/?item_id=100629

Canadian News Media on Bill C-61:

More commentary on Bill C-61:

Cartoons:

Protests to Bill C-61

2008-06-14T12:45:00.001-04:00

Plenty of useful analysis of all the onerous provisions of Bill C-61, which render the so-called gains null and void. Too bad most news stories are still claiming it's just a way to stop file sharing. It's not. It's a way to stop you from deciding how you want to use your legally purchased items by making it illegal to do anything the company restricts using digital rights management (DRM). DRM of course should really stand for digital restrictions management.

Try ripping a copyright protected CD to your IPod and you're liable for a 20 000 dollar fine. I'm guessing watching a legally purchased DVD on Linux is also a 20 000 dollar fine and with the gutting of the educational exemptions by the anti-circumvention measures I'm worried about how this will affect my teaching and research. The chilling effect already affects research in the USA from their DMCA. That's the last thing we want in Canada.

Most troubling of all is the fact that this bill has been denounced by many of the very creators who are supposedly being protected. Many Canadian artists are independents who do not belong to the big US music collectives or their "Canadian" offshoots, so a made-in-the-USA solution like Bill C-61 does little to help them build a following and sell their work.

More commentary on the bill:
Michael Geist: The Canadian DMCA: A Betrayal
CBC: Copyright bill protests surge online
Michael Geist: The Copyright Protest Surge
FairCopyright.ca: Laura J. Murray: Bill C-61: First Reactions
Canadian Library Association Disappointed with New Copyright Legislation
Copyright for Canadians: Canada's DMCA

Write to your MP

Copyright and ACTA

2008-06-13T15:27:00.000-04:00

Michael Geist describes the problems with the proposed ACTA treaty (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement): no public discussions, no transparency and no sign that it will actually be useful for protecting people from actual counterfeit products like bad drugs, fake Dell computers or fake sunglasses.

Copyright "Reform" arrives in the form of Bill C-61

2008-06-12T15:36:00.000-04:00

Today Bill C-61 was finally unveiled after months of speculation, much of it negative save for the usual US industry shills. The bill is all that most Canadians could have feared, providing a list of rights that would make the average Canadian happy only to take them away again within the same bill. While private copying and format shifting will be legalised in this bill, anti-circumvention laws which keep users from breaking digital rights management (DRM) locks on electronic media in order to perform this copying will, in practice, make these actions illegal. Also, the distribution of anti-circumvention tools will be illegal and subject to a $20 000 dollar fine. This means that breaking a DRM lock in order to have an ebook read aloud to you will be a criminal offense! Never mind that you have legally purchased the ebook. Likewise breaking a DRM lock in order to backup a legally purchased DVD will in fact be illegal.

See Michael Geist's Blog for more information and tell your MP what you think of the copyright bill. In a democracy, all citizens have the right to comment on bills.

Other sites:
Fair Copyright for Canada, a lobby group for ordinary Canadians who want to avoid a US style copyright scheme being imposed by US lobby groups: http://www.faircopyrightforcanada.ca/

Industry Canada's Press Release, which conveniently fails to mention that all these new rights will be null and void due to anti-circumvention laws: http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/crp-prda.nsf/en/h_rp01149e.html

Digital Copyright Canada site: http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/4711

Bill C-61, a link to the full text: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/392/Government/C-61/C-61_1/C-61_1.PDF

Ottawa Race Weekend 2008

2008-06-04T13:13:00.000-04:00

This year I participated in the Ottawa Race Weekend, May23-25. My mother and I walked the MDS Nordion 10K. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year. I've also started thinking about training to walk a half marathon.

Visual Resources Association 2008

2008-05-30T21:59:00.000-04:00

This year I went to the Visual Resources Association Conference in San Diego to be part of a panel on tagging. The panel was entitled Free Association: Social Tagging in Online Collections. I talked about the use of affective (emotional) terms in tagging and how this might affect the organisation of information, especially visual information. Other speakers were from the UPenn PennTags project and the Steve.museum project.

While I was there I did a little sightseeing in San Diego.

Conferences in 2007

2008-05-19T14:55:00.000-04:00

I usually try to write a short piece about the conferences I've attended along with links to presentations or papers as appropriate. This is a combined post for all conferences in 2007.

In 2007, I attended the Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas in March, the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) in Montreal in May, the North American Symposium on Knowlege Organisation (NASKO) in Toronto in July, the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Vancouver, also in July and ASIST in October.

At the IA Summit I presented a paper examining the use of non subject tags in social bookmarking systems. By non subject tags I mean tags that do not describe the topic of the item being bookmarked. Examples of such tags include @todo, cool and fun. These tags are interesting specifically because they are not the kinds of keywords you would find in a standard information organisation tool. The paper is available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1947/ and the slides are at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00011414/.

I really enjoyed this particular session of the IA Summit. I was able to speak to a number of people who are also doing research on the phenomenon of social bookmarking and tagging and consulting with people doing similar research is certainly one of the best reasons for going to conferences. I stayed in a cheaper hotel further down the strip and walked to the conference hotel daily experiencing the sights of a new city. I also took a trip to Arizona to see the Grand Canyon... with predictable results. It snowed and I have some unique pictures of the Grand Canyon completely shrouded in fog. Obviously I have to go back.

At CAIS I presented the second half of a paper examining the terminology used in tagging. The paper examines tags used in tagging scholarly articles on Citeulike using standard informetric measures and additionally compares them to keywords assigned to these papers in Pubmed. The paper is available from http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2007/kipp_2007.pdf and the slides are at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00011413/.

I enjoy the CAIS conference because it allows me to keep up with the work being done in other areas of library science, and it is small enough that I can actually attend a lot more of the sessions, which is not really an option at the bigger conferences.

At NASKO I presented a further analysis of the material in my CAIS paper as well as an analysis of a set of papers drawn from JAMA, a professional journal. The paper is available from http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1909/ and the slides are at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00011412/.

I had a great time at this conference. I found that I had met a lot of the presenters at previous conferences. It was great to go to a smaller conference where many more people were doing research in similar areas to mine.

At JCDL I presented a poster following on from my NASKO paper. There is a link to the poster abstract on the ACM Digital Library at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1255284&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=29638545&CFTOKEN=47523958 and to the poster at http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00011411/.

I really enjoy Vancouver and it was great to visit again. Someday I have to stay for a few extra days though and take a few day trips to sites like Vancouver Island and the Capilano suspension bridge.

In October I presented at ASIST in Milwaukee. I presented a poster with the very early results from a study I am doing comparing searching an online database and a social bookmarking system via their keywords and was a presenter on a panel titled Tagging and Social Networks: The Impact of Communities on User Centered Tagging http://www.asis.org/wiki/AM07/index.php/TagSN

Books Read in 2007

2008-01-01T09:00:00.002-05:00

January 2007
Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug
practically a web usability manual
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff

February 2007
Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
JAG officer investigates a murder where the base general is the prime suspect
Path of the Fury, David Weber
pirates killed Alicia's family, that was their first mistake
The Barsoom Project, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
set in the same universe as Dreampark
Trading in Danger, Elizabeth Moon
Marque and Reprisal, Elizabeth Moon
Ky Vatta has to rebuild the family shipping business after pirate attacks

March 2007
Engaging the Enemy, Elizabeth Moon
Command Decision, Elizabeth Moon
Ky Vatta has to rebuild the family shipping business after pirate attacks
The Far Side of the Stars, David Drake
nice to see a librarian as a major character
Sea Fighter, James H. Cobb
military fiction series set in the near future
The Big U, Neal Stephenson
one of Neal Stephenson's earlier works, the ending is a bit rough, but no odder than his other works
Valor's Choice, Tany Huff
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff
military science fiction series from the viewpoint of ground troops
The Myth of the Paperless Office
Why we still use paper.
Stark's War, John G. Hemry
Stark's Command, John G. Hemry
Stark's Crusade, John G. Hemry
military science fiction series set on the moon
Tunnel in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein
survival test turns into a fight to survive

April 2007
Partners in Necessity (Conflict of Honours, Agent of Change, Carpe Diem), Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
the first three books in the Liaden series, great world building
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
Max is a hillbilly who dreams of becoming a spaceman
Plan B, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Clan Korval's enemies are massing, but Korval has a plan
I Dare, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
sequel to Plan B with the trademark cliffhanger ending
In the Beginning Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson
philosophical ruminations on the nature of computing and operating systems
Pilots Choice, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
backstory on the parents of Val Con, Shan, Nova and Anthora
Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Jethri becomes the first Terran to apprentice to a Liaden master trader
Crystal Soldier, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
the story of Cantra yos-Phelium and Jela, founders of Clan Korval
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith
Jeff dreams of being a soldier, but life in the civil war isn't what he expected
The Eagle of the Ninth, Rosemary Sutcliffe
Marcus goes to Britain to search for his father's missing legion
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
First Test, Tamora Pierce
Page, Tamora Pierce
Squire, Tamora Pierce
Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce
Keladry trains to be a lady knight
Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Elizabeth Moon
Paksennarion's quest

May 2007
Oath of Gold, Elizabeth Moon
Paksennarion's quest
Balance of Trade, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Jethri becomes the first Terran to apprentice to a Liaden master trader
Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce
Alanna and her brother switch places so she can study to be a knight and he can study to be a magician
Worlds of Honor, David Weber
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
The Honor of the Queen, David Weber
More Than Honor, David Weber
Young Warriors: Stories of Strength, ed. Tamora Pierce and Josepha Sherman
stories of young people forced to make difficult decisions
Crystal Dragon, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
sequel to Crystal Soldier
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
discusses the epidemic theory of information/innovation transfer
The Service of the Sword, David Weber
Shopaholic and Baby, Sophie Kinsella
Becky discovers the joys of spending money on someone else
In Fury Born, David Weber
extensive rewrite of Path of the Fury, with much more backstory
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
third book in Frank McCourt's autobiography
Twenty Years Before the Blackboard: The Lessons and Humor of a Mathematics Teacher, Michael Stueben
anecdotes and tidbits from a retired high school math teacher
The Short Victorious War, David Weber
Terrier: Beka Cooper, Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce's new Tortall series, set several hundred years in the past about a police trainee
Field of Dishonor, David Weber
Flag in Exile, David Weber

June 2007
Honor Among Enemies, David Weber
In Enemy Hands, David Weber
The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
doesn't stand on its own as well as the other two books, but a decent continuation to the series
Echoes of Honor, David Weber
A Walk Across America, Peter Jenkins
Peter Jenkins rediscovers his faith in his country by walking across it (though some of the incidents he describes could well have caused him to permanently lose it)

July 2007
Ashes of Victory, David Weber
The Man Who Walked Through Time: the Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon, Colin Fletcher
travel diary of the first person recorded to have walked through the Grand Canyon in one trip
Space Station ICE-3, Bruce Coville
a teenager on an orbital habitat solves a murder mystery
Officer Cadet, Rick Shelley
Lieutenant, Rick Shelley
somewhat generic military science fiction
The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR, Kirsten Koza
travel diary of a woman who went to a Soviet Young Pioneer camp as an 11 year old
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Bryson's trip to England and Wales
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
I really enjoyed the book, it's a decent ending to the series, but I was kind of hoping for a confrontation between Harry and Snape.
The Buchannan Campaign, Rick Shelley
Fires of Coventry, Rick Shelley
Return to Camerein, Rick Shelley
space marines rescue planetary populations from the enemy
Sea Strike, James H. Cobb
Sea Fighter, James H. Cobb
the first and third book in this series are my favourites, the third book with its mixed UN task force seems to embody the confusion of mixed chains of command quite well
The Rising, James Doohan and S. M. Stirling
The Privateer, James Doohan and S. M. Stirling
The Independent Command, James Doohan and S. M. Stirling
Turnabout, Margaret Peterson Haddix
some serious discussion of issues of age and responsibility mixed in with an entertaining story of two women who are older than they appear

August 2007
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
Bryson tours Europe
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
Bryson's autobiography
Cobra Bargain, Timothy Zahn
the third Cobra book, I like these books because they're not generic military science fiction, but contain a serious look at the issues involved in creating super soldiers and what happens after the war is over
Danny Dunn and the Automatic House, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn, Scientific Detective, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny and his friends Irene and Joe get into trouble and have to solve the problem with science
The City in the Stars, Victor Appleton
Terror on the Moons of Jupiter, Victor Appleton
Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little
Little uses her own experiences growing up with poor eyesight to illustrate the everyday barriers to success Anna faces and how they can be overcome
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede
Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR, Kirsten Koza
Notes From a Big Country, Bill Bryson

September 2007
Notes From a Big Country, Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Blood Price, Tanya Huff
Blood Trail, Tanya Huff
I've never really cared for vampire novels, but I do like Tanya Huff's characters.
Starfarers, Vonda N. McIntyre
Transition, Vonda N. McIntyre
Metaphase, Vonda N. McIntyre
Nautilus, Vonda N. McIntyre
I haven't read the Starfarers series in years. I had forgotten a lot of the details.
A Thousand Words for Stranger, Julie E. Czerneda
Ties of Power, Julie E. Czerneda

October 2007
To Trade the Stars, Julie E. Czerneda
Blood Lines, Tanya Huff
Blood Pact, Tanya Huff
Blood Debt, Tanya Huff
Blood Bank, Tanya Huff
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

November 2007
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR, Kirsten Koza
Blood Lines, Tanya Huff
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Heart of Valor, Tanya Huff
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold

December 2007
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling

Books Read in 2006

2008-01-01T08:30:00.001-05:00

January
Tunnel in the Sky, Heinlein
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Shadow of the Giant, Orson Scott Card
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Wizards at War, Diane Duane
The War God's Own, David Weber
Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane
So You Want to Be a Wizard, Diane Duane
From Anna, Jean Little
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America, Bill Bryson
Ambient Findability, Peter Morville

February
Girls in Pants, Ann Brashares
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
Path of the Fury, David Weber
From Anna, Jean Litttle
Listen for the Singing, Jean Litttle
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norman Juster
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
Hackers, Steven Levy

March
Wind Rider's Oath, David Weber
The Minerva Program, Claire MacKay
Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Elizabeth Moon
Oath of Gold, Elizabeth Moon
The Silver Spider, Robert Arthur
Zodiac, Neal Stephenson
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
The Homeward Bounders, Diana Wynne Jones
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

April
The Galactic Gourmet, James White
Final Diagnosis, James White
Federation World, James White
Star Surgeon, James White
Notes From a Big Country, Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Until Relieved, Rick Shelley
Side Show, Rick Shelley
Jump Pay, Rick Shelley
Mathemagics, Margaret Ball
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way, Bill Bryson
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold

May
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, Clifford Stoll
Stoll's transfromtion from astronomer to computer security guy
Cue for Treason, Gregory Trease
A Shakespearean novel
Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood, Gordon Korman
The Zucchini Warriors, Gordon Korman
The War With Mister Wizzle, Gordon Korman
Go Jump in the Pool!, Gordon Korman
Bruno and Boots make things livelier at boarding school with zany antics
No Coins, Please!, Gordon Korman
Arty enjoys making money, his counsellors wish he would just play soccer with the other boys
Reflex, Steven Gould
Sequel to Jumper
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brien
Stephen Maturin agrees to be doctor aboard Jack Aubrey's ship, a sloop in the British Navy
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Matt and his friends are growing up on the moon, but Matt wants desperately to leave and become starship crew.
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Things aren't going well on Mars. Jim's new principal tries to take his pet Willis away. The Martians want Willis too.
Zodiac, Neal Stephenson
Sangamon Taylor's job is to track down toxic wastes spills and embarrass the corporation who spilled the toxic waste into cleaing it up
Cyberpunk, Katie Hafner and John Markoff
Outward Bound, James P. Hogan
The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop

June
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
Go To: The story of the math majors, bridge players, engineers, chess wizards, maverick scientists and iconoclasts, the programmers who created the software revolution, Steve Lohr
The story of the separation of hardware and software. Or the rise of computer programming as a separate discipline.
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho, Jon Katz
Using the Internet to build a better life
From Anna, Jean Little
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little
Anna is legally blind without her glasses.
Mine for Keeps, Jean Little
Sally has cerebral palsy and has trouble with fine motor control. The story is about her first year in an integrated class.
Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow
Strange. Not sure I really got the point of this book.
The Interior Life, Katherine Blake
A bored housewife has a rich fantasy life. Actually, the real fantasy is her real life.
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
The Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede
London, England in the 19th century. Magic is real and plays an important role in society. Kim, an orphan living on the streets, gets involved in a gentry plot of farcical proportions.
Humboldt's Cosmos, Gerard Helferich
Humboldt's five year exploration of the new world
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Language is far more than just words.

July
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella
The shopaholic books are funny... and the funniest part is that I hate shopping.
The King's Shadow, Elizabeth Alder
great historical fiction novel, set around the time of the Norman conquest of England
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Labyrinth, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Books in Bujold's Vorkosigan series
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth-Carey
Sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen
Don't Care High, Gordon Korman
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
why you shouldn't just throw expensive equipment into a backpack and hit the trail, but it does make for a funny travelogue
The Sea of Trolls, Nancy Farmer
historical novel, set in the Saxon period when Viking longships sacked the coast of England
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
The first Honor Harrington book. Honor throws caution to the wind and puts her reputation on the line for her star system. Actually, this is arguably a good escription of the series.

August
Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic and Sister, Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic has a half-sister and they don't seem to have anything in common.
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Bujold is probably one of my favourite authors of all time
True North, George Erickson
Erickson explores Northern Canada by bush plane
The Ruins of Gorlan, John Flanagan (Ranger's Apprentice)
Will wants desperately to get into battleschool but instead is apprenticed to a shadowy Ranger
A Gift of Dragons, Anne McCaffrey
Short stories in the universe of Pern
Agent to the Stars, John Scalzi
aliens make contact, but they need a PR guy to make them seem more appealing
The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
The ethics of human cloning, told from the perspective of a clone
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
excellent thriller
Tom Swift and his Ultrasonic Cycloplane, Victor Appleton II
Tom Swift and his Flying Lab, Victor Appleton II
Tom Swift and his Jetmarine, Victor Appleton II
Haven't read my Tom Swifts in ages, I forget sometimes that I used to scour used bookstores for them
The Undomestic Goddess, Sophie Kinsella
I think I like the shopaholic series better
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
yet another book about a totalitarian future regime, I enjoyed this more the first time I read it
Crown of Slaves, David Weber and Eric Flint
a book in the Honor Harrington series, less political stuff and more action
Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
another great thriller, the crypto stuff seemed mostly correct too

September
Shadow of Saganami, David Weber
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Sophie Kinsella
This Time of Darkness, H.M. Hoover
One of my favourite SF books of all time
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Bryson tours England and Wales and has a jolly good time getting soaked and taking milk run buses
The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
The lights are failing in Ember and no one knows what is beyond the city. Reminds me of Surreal 3000 by Suzanne Martel, similar themes. There's a sequel.
At All Costs, David Weber
The latest in the Honor Harrington Series. Still too much political intrigue for my tastes, but at least the space battles were good.
The Winds of Mars, H.M. Hoover
One of the daughters of the "hereditary" president of Mars learns about the problems of aristocratic privilege without any concomitant responsibility
The Lost Star, H.M. Hoover
Lian grew up in an observatory far from Earth and other children. At 15 she's a working astronomer until an accident leaves her stranded with an archaeological team. There she makes an important discovery.
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
London, England in the 19th century. Magic is real and plays an important role in society. Kim, an orphan living on the streets, gets involved in a gentry plot of farcical proportions.

October
The Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede
London, England in the 19th century. Magic is real and plays an important role in society. Kim, an orphan living on the streets, gets involved in a gentry plot of farcical proportions.
We Few, David Weber and John Ringo
Roger has gone from a spoiled clothes horse to a barbarian prince. Probably neither is what his subjects were really hoping for in an Emperor. 4th book in the series.
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall, Gordon Korman
Bruno and Boots are usually the centre of all things unauthorised at MacDonald Hall, but this year the prankster has left them out of the loop
Green Futures of Tycho, William Sleator
Tycho travels through time and accidentally changes the past and the future
Apple is My Sign, Mary Riskind
A deaf boy attends a residential school in the early 1900s
The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
The lights are failing in Ember and no one knows what is beyond the city, reminds me of Surreal 3000, similar themes. There's a sequel.
Among the Brave, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Third children are illegal and being a third child is punishable by death.
Among the Enemy, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The population police have just taken over making the plight of third children even worse.
The People of Sparks, Jeanne Duprau
The Emberites have all fled Ember and discovered that they have been living underground. Tensions rise as the refugees overwhelm a small village's ability to help them.
David and the Phoenix, Edward Ormondroyd
David has longed to climb the mountain since he first learned that his family was moving to a new city.
Double Identity, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Bethany's family are acting very strangely, abandoning her with people who keep saying she looks strangely familiar.
Stark's War, John G. Hemry
Stark's Command, John G. Hemry
Stark's Crusade, John G. Hemry
War on the Moon. The US experiences a revolt when its lunar colony demands freedom from corporate taxation
Wildside, Steven Gould
A group of friends have adventures in a parallel world reached through a door in Charlie's barn.
Helm, Steven Gould
Humanity must survive on a low tech terraformed world after the destruction of Earth.
Among the Free, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The final Shadow Children book. Third children can finally emerge from the shadows, or can they?
The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
The lights are failing in Ember and no one knows what is beyond the city, reminds me of Surreal 3000, similar themes. There's a sequel.
Little By Little, Jean Little
The first part of Jean Little's autobiography.
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
The Stones are a family of misfits from Luna. They embark on a hilarious trip across the solar system.
The Bug, Ellen Ullman
A bug and a nasty break up drive a programmer out of his mind.

November
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
A coming of age novel set on the moon.
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, Lori Arviso Alvord
Autobiography of a female Navajo surgeon.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
Autobiography of Bill Bryson, travel writer
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein's controversial war novel.
Jumping off the Planet, David Gerrold
Bouncing off the Moon, David Gerrold
Leaping to the Stars, David Gerrold
The Dingillians are a dysfunctional family off on a trip to the stars.
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Three Miles Vorkosigan adventures.
The Joke's On Us, Gordon Korman
Beware the Fish, Gordon Korman
Bruno and Boots at MacDonald Hall
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Bryson's tour of England

December
The City of Ember, Jeanne Duprau
The lights are failing in Ember and no one knows what is beyond the city, reminds me of Surreal 3000, similar themes. There's a sequel.
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles saves the Cetagandan Empire. Oops.
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles meets his clone brother Mark for the first time.
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mark takes Miles' place, very reluctantly
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles is medically retired from his galactic adventures
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles meets the love of his life
Free Falling, Lois McMaster Bujold
Leo is an excellent engineer, but the problem he faces now has nothing to do with his type of engineering.

Books Read in 2005

2008-01-01T08:00:00.001-05:00

January
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Brother Astronomer, Guy Consulmagno
First Test, Tamora Pierce
Page, Tamora Pierce
Squire, Tamora Pierce
Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce
Don't Care High, Gordon Korman
Learning Python, Mark Lutz and David Ascher

February
Dream Park, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean-François Lyotard
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Norman Maclean
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Bruno Latour
Fear of Words: Censorship and the Public Libraries of Canada, Alvin Schrader
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution, Donald A. Norman
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, James R. Beniger

March
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles, Donald A. Norman
Marx and Engels on the Means of Communication, Yves De La Haye
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
I Can Jump Puddles, Alan Marshall
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, David Harvey
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer
Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property, Ronald V. Bettig
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
From Anna, Jean Little
A Wizard Abroad, Diane Duane
Communication and the Transformation of Economics: Essays in Information, Public Policy, and Political Economy, Robert E. Babe
So You Want to Be a Wizard, Diane Duane
High Wizardry, Diane Duane
The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context, Mark Poster
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
Telecommunications in Canada: Technology, Industry and Government, Robert E. Babe
The Book of Night with Moon, Diane Duane
To Visit the Queen, Diane Duane
The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information, Oscar H. Gandy

April
Rites of Privacy and the Privacy Trade, Elizabeth Neill
Stark's War, John G. Hemry
Stark's Command, John G. Hemry
Stark's Crusade, John G. Hemry
Librarianship: The Erosion of a Woman's Profession, Roma Harris
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Into the Future: The Foundations of Library and Information Science Services in the Post-Industrial Era, Michael A. Harris and Stan A. Hannah
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Cultural Industries of Canada, Michael Dorland ed.
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Grand Tour or The Purloined Coronoation Regalia, Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Shamans, Software and Spleen: Law and the Construction of the Information Society, James Boyle
In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, Shoshana Zuboff
The Information Age, Manuel Castells
The Magickers, Emily Drake
The Curse of Arkady, Emily Drake
Global Productions: Labor in the Making of the "Information Society", Gerald Sussman and John A. Lent ed.
The Dragon Guard, Emily Drake
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Elaine Svenonius
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford

May
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, Linus Torvalds, David Diamond
Dream Park, Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events 1)
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Lost Dragon of Wessex, Gwendolyn Bowers
The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events 2)
Slan, A.E. Van Vogt
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon

June
Journey of the Oceanauts, Louis Wolfe
The Death of Sleep, Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye
Higher Education, Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle
Rules of Engagement, Elizabeth Moon
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon
Winning Colors, Elizabeth Moon
Sporting Chance, Elizabeth Moon
Voyage from Yesteryear, James P. Hogan
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, Steven Johnson
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
R.I.P. Foster Rides the Gray Planet, Blake Savage
Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith
Warrimoo, Mary E. Patchett
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

July
Ring of Fire, ed. Eric Flint
Tunnel in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Island in the Sea of Time, S.M. Stirling
Renegades of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
All the Weyrs of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier, James Gleick
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web, David Weinberger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman

August
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
Beginning Operations, James White
I Can Jump Puddles, Alan Marshal
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science, Amir D. Aczel
Interstellar Pig, William Sleator
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Ann Brashares
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

September
Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood, Gordon Korman
The Zucchini Warriors, Gordon Korman
The War With Mister Wizzle, Gordon Korman
Go Jump in the Pool!, Gordon Korman
No Coins, Please!, Gordon Korman
I Want to Go Home, Gordon Korman
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
Dolphins of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
The Masterharper of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
Dragonseye, Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Dragonquest, Anne McCaffrey
The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey
Helm, Steven Gould
Wildside, Steven Gould
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier, Diana & Michael Preston
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
All Things Bright and Beautiful, James Herriot

October
All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot
The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot
Every Living Thing, James Herriot
The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences, Bowker and Star
Howl's Moving Castle, Dianna Wynne Jones
Rifles for Watie, Howard Keith
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Neptune File: A Story of the Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting, Tom Standage
Partners in Necessity, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Plan B, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
I Dare, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Zodiac, Neal Stephenson

November
Paddle to the Arctic, Don Starkell
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Oaxaca Journal, Oliver Sacks
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
Paddle to the Amazon, Don Starkell
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Prodigy: A Biography of William James Sidig, America's Greatest Child Prodigy, Amy Wallace
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold

December
Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak, Victoria Jason
Genius, James Gleick
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Oliver Sacks
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
Notes From a Big Country, Bill Bryson
Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop

Books Read in 2004

2008-01-01T07:30:00.004-05:00

January, 2004

Fingers, William Sleator
Wizard's Holiday, Diane Duane (Young Wizard's Series)
Brother to Shadows, Andre Norton
Parasite Pig, William Sleator (Sequel to Interstellar Pig) [not as good as the original]
Bagthorpes Haunted, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 6)
The Lottery, Beth Goobie
Bagthorpes Liberated, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 7)
Mud City, Deborah Ellis (Sequel to Parvana's Journey)
The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg
Eight Days of Luke, Dianna Wynne Jones
The Bagthorpe Triangle, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 8)
Bagthorpes Besieged, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 9)
Bagthorpes Battered, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 10)
How to get Fabulously Rich, Thomas Rockwell
Turnabout, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rebel Code: the inside story of Linux and the open source revolution, Glyn Moody
Code Blue: Emergency, James White (Sector General)
The Magickers, Emily Drake (Magickers 1)
The Curse of Arkady, Emily Drake (Magickers 2)
Hacker Culture, Douglas Thomas

February, 2004

The Dragon Guard, Emily Drake (Magickers 3)
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity, Siva Vaidhyanathan
Among the Barons, Margaret Peterson Haddix (Sequel to Among the Hidden)
Tron, Brian Daley
The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, Daniel Bell
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Donald A. Norman
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Barbary, Vonda McIntyre
Paper Mage, Leah R. Cutter
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Planets of Adventure, Murray Leinster
Alias Madame Doubtfire, Anne Fine

March, 2004

The Psychology of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman
A Mischevious Meander Through the Stacks & Beyond, Gary Handman
Wizard's Holiday, Diane Duane (Young Wizards)
Biblia's guide to warrior librarianship: humor for librarians who refuse to be classified, Amanda Credaro, Peter Lewis
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
On the far side of the mountain, Jean Craighead George (Sequel to My Side of the Mountain)
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Firewing, Kenneth Oppel
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Labor and Monopoly Capital, Harry Braverman
The Final Reflection, John M. Ford (Star Trek)
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford

April, 2004

A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
The Success of Open Source, Steven Weber
Devil on My Back, Monica Hughes
The Dream Catcher, Monica Hughes (Sequel to Devil on My Back)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary Norton
Time Out, Helen Cresswell
Nick of Time, Anne Lindbergh [absolutely hilarious]
Crisis on Conshelf 10, Monica Hughes
Earthdark, Monica Hughes (Sequel to Crisis on Conshelf 10)
A Scholar of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Wildside, Steven Gould
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowsky
Empty World, John Christopher
Strange Tomorrow, Jean E. Karl
A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Island in the Sea of Time, S. M. Stirling
Against the Tide of Years, S. M. Stirling

May, 2004

On the Oceans of Eternity, S. M. Stirling
Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet, Eleanor Cameron
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane (Young Wizards 1)
Me Oh Maya!, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Shadow on the Dial, Anne Lindbergh
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Searching For Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles 2)
Calling On Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles 3)
First Test, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 1)
Page, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 2)
Island Feud, Marion Cook
Squire, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 3)
Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 4)
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
Talking to Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles 4)
Holes, Louis Sachar
A Little Piece of Ground, Elizabeth Laird
Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle
Time Cat, Lloyd Alexander
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

June, 2004

Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, Lawrence Lessig
Another Shore, Nancy Bond
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede (Sequel to Mairelon the Magician)
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth-Carey (Sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen)
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Lynne Truss [funny & sarcastic]
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, Ellen Ullman
Final Diagnosis, James White
The Galactic Gourmet, James White

July, 2004

Crusade in Jeans, Theresa Beckman
King Matt the First, Janusz Korczak
Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
Pay the rent or feed the kids: the tragedy of poverty in Canada, Mel Hurtig
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Shakespeare's Spy, Gary Blackwood
We, Yevgeni Zamyatin [like 1984 but better]
Survey Ship, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Don't Care High, Gordon Korman
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman, C. Weingartner [suggestions for how to teach critical thinking skills]

August, 2004

Don't Turn Your Back in the Barn: Adventures of a Country Vet, David Perrin
The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones
I Can Jump Puddles, Alan Marshall
Helm, Steven Gould
Wildside, Steven Gould
The Princess Bride, William Goldstein
Blind Waves, Steven Gould
From Anna, Jean Little
Look Through My Window, Jean Little
Kate, Jean Little
Knight Crusader, Ronald Welch
Mine for Keeps, Jean Little
Spring Begins in March, Jean Little
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
His Banner Over Me, Jean Little
Stand in the Wind, Jean Little
Star Hatchling, Margaret Bechard
Orvis, H.M. Hoover
Spaceman Go Home!, Milton Lesser
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Starswarm, Jerry Pournelle
The Billion Dollar Boy, Charles Sheffield
The Cyborg from Earth, Charles Sheffield
The Minerva Program, Claire MacKay
The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams
Opus 100, Isaac Asimov
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth-Carey (Sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen)

September, 2004

Islands in the Sky, Arthur C. Clarke
A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy Farmer
Neuromancer, William Gibson
The King's Shadow, Elizabeth Alder
Into the Dream, William Sleator
Little by Little, Jean Little
Stars Come Out Within, Jean Little (Sequel to Little by Little)
Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks
Anna to the Infinite Power, Mildred Ames
The Boggart, Susan Cooper
Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird, Jean Little
Blaine's Way, Monica Hughes
Listen for the Singing, Jean Little (Sequel to From Anna)
Orphan at my Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope, Jean Little
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Elizabeth Eisenstein
Awake and Dreaming, Kit Pearson [couldn't put it down]
From Anna, Jean Little
Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles du Roi Diary of Helene St. Onge, Maxine Trottier
Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott, Carol Matas
The Anarchist in the Library: How the clash between freedom and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system, Siva Vaidhyanathan [bad title, interesting book though]
With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Karleen Bradford
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Dilemmas in the Study of Information Science, Sam Neill
The Boggart and the Monster, Susan Cooper (Sequel to The Boggart)
Take Wing, Jean Little
Canadian Intellectual Property The Politics of Innovating Institutions, G. Bruce Doern and Markus Sharaput
A Handful of Time, Kit Pearson

October, 2004

Our Man Weston, Gordon Korman
Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt, Kit Pearson
The Domain of Information Science, with an Emphasis on Contributing Disciplines: 1973 to 1998, Boyd Holmes
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
This is the Grass, Alan Marshall (Sequel to I Can Jump Puddles)
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Turnabout, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend
Mindchanger, James White (Sector General)
In Mine Own Heart, Alan Marshall (Sequel to This is the Grass and I Can Jump Puddles)
The Gate of Bones, Emily Drake (Magickers 4)
Copyright in Historical Perspective, Lyman Ray Patterson
Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, Caroline Stevermer and Patricia C. Wrede
The Philosophical Programmer: Reflections on the Moth in the Machine, Daniel Kohanski
Danny Dunn and the Automatic House, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn and the Heat Ray, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
The Queen and I, Sue Townsend
Adrian Mole: The Lost Years, Sue Townsend
Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
Danny Dunn on a Desert Island, Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin
From Anna, Jean Little
Mine for Keeps, Jean Little

November, 2004

King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
A Tale of Time City, Dianna Wynne Jones
Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities, Edward P. Weber
The Earthborn, Paul Collins
Second Contact, J. D. Austin
A Perilous Power, E. Rose Sabin
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Space Doctor, Lee Correy
Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves, Josette Dermody Wingo
The Limits of Tolerance: Censorship and Intellectual Freedom in Public Libraries, Ann Curry

December, 2004

The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
Among the Brave, Margaret Peterson Haddix (Sequel to Among the Barons)
Accountability in Development Organisations: Experiences of Women's Organizations in India, Poonam Smith-Sreen
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman and Mark Stone
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Dogland, Will Shetterly
Starfarers, Vonda N. McIntyre
The Gauntlet, Ronald Welch
Outward Bound, James P. Hogan
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
Dragonsearch, Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
The White Dragon, Anne McCaffrey
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling

Books Read in 2003

2008-01-01T07:00:00.000-05:00

January, 2003

A Wizard Alone, Diane Duane (Young Wizards 6)
Clone Catcher, Alfred Slote
Another Heaven, Another Earth, H. M. Hoover
The girl who owned a city, O.T. Nelson
Witch Week, Diana Wynne Jones
Sucker Punch, Rick Shelley (Spec Ops Squad 3)
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff (Sequel to Valor's Choice)

February, 2003

This place has no atmosphere, Paula Danziger
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
Le chant du coq, Arlette Cousture (Les filles de Caleb 1)
Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey
Target Lock, James H. Cobb
Sundowner, Chris Claremont
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon

March, 2003

A Point of Honor, Dorothy J. Heydt
Wildside, Steven Gould
Strangers from the Sky, Margaret Wander Bonanno (Star Trek)
Le cri de l'oie blanche, Arlette Cousture (Les filles de Caleb 2)
Blind Waves, Steven Gould
Jumper, Steven Gould
The Element of Fire, Martha Wells
The Ship Who Searched, Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia Wrede
The Magician's Ward, Patricia Wrede (Sequel to Mairelon the Magician)
Have Space Suit-Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
Eternal Frontier, James H. Schmitz
War of Honor, David Weber (Honor Harrington 10)

April, 2003

Spock's World, Diane Duane (Star Trek)
Path of the Fury, David Weber
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
First Test, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 1)
Page, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 2)
Squire, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 3)
The Man with Two Left Feet, P. G. Wodehouse
Escape to Witch Mountain, Alexander Key
Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness 1)
Wild Magic, Tamora Pierce (The Immortals 1)
In the Hand of the Goddess, Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness 2)
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness 3)
Lioness Rampant, Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness 4)
Danny Dunn and the Voice from Space #12, Jay Williams, Raymond Abrashkin
Federation World, James White
March to the Stars, David Weber, John Ringo
The Service of the Sword, ed. David Weber (Worlds of Honor 4)
Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 4)

May, 2003

Wolf Speaker, Tamora Pierce (The Immortals 2)
Outward Bound, James P. Hogan
Emperor Mage, Tamora Pierce (The Immortals 3)
The Realms of the Gods, Tamora Pierce (The Immortals 4)
The Billion Dollar Boy, Charles Sheffield
The Interior Life, Katherine Blake
The Rolling Stones, Robert Heinlein
This Time of Darkness, H. M. Hoover
The Mystery of the Silver Spider, Robert Arthur (Three Investigators 8)
The Grey King, Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising 4)
The Pool of Fire, John Christopher (Tripods 3)
I Can Jump Puddles, Alan Marshall
Devil On My Back, Monica Hughes
Our Man Weston, Gordon Korman
Silver on the Tree, Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising 5)
Lord Emsworth and Others, P. G. Wodehouse
Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)
The Dream Catcher, Monica Hughes (Sequel to Devil On My Back)
Don't Care High, Gordon Korman
Mindchanger, James White (Sector General)

June, 2003

Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game)
Double Contact, James White (Sector General)
1633, Eric Flint, David Weber (Sequel to 1632)
The Shiva Option, David Weber, Steve White
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
First Test, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 1)
Page, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 2)
Squire, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 3)
The Curse of Arkady, Emily Drake (Magickers 2)
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia Wrede
The Magician's Ward, Patricia Wrede (Sequel to Mairelon the Magician)
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer

July, 2003

Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling
The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
Come Sing, Jimmy Jo, Katherine Paterson
The Giver, Lois Lowry
This Time of Darkness, H. M. Hoover
The Dragon Guard, Emily Drake (Magickers 3)
Dreampark, Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
The Difference Engine, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Great Amateurs of Science, John Malone
A Gift of Dragons, Anne McCaffrey

August 2003

Spring Begins in March, Jean Little
Lyddie, Katherine Paterson
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
Something Fishy at Macdonald Hall, Gordon Korman
This Can't Be Happening At Macdonald Hall, Gordon Korman
Go Jump In The Pool!, Gordon Korman
I Want to Go Home!, Gordon Korman
Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin
The IDIC Epidemic, Jean Lorrah
The Vulcan Academy Murders, Jean Lorrah
How Much For Just The Planet?, John M. Ford
The Scoundrel Worlds, Chris Bunch
Between the Dragon and the Eagle, Mical Schneider
My Teacher Glows in the Dark, Bruce Coville
Dragonholder, Todd J. McCaffrey
The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
The War with Mr Wizzle, Gordon Korman
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4, Sue Townsend
The Library Card, Jerry Spinelli
2095, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Leaping to the Stars, David Gerrold
Ordinary Jack, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 1)
The Book of Night with Moon, Diane Duane
Underneath I'm Different, Ellen Rabinowich
The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox
Doctor's Orders, Diane Duane
Speedway Contender, Frank Bonham
Lost Race of Mars, Robert Silverberg

September 2003

Decision at Doona, Anne McCaffrey
Crisis on Doona, Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye
Treaty at Doona, Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye
Dealing With Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles 1)
Sworn Enemies, Carol Matas
The Rowan, Anne McCaffrey
Damia, Anne McCaffrey
Dreamweaver's Dilemma, Lois McMaster Bujold
Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity, Michael Perelman
Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth-Carey
Libraries in the Ancient World, Lionel Casson
Math Curse, Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (Time Warp Trio)
Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Viking It and Liking It, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Absolute Zero, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 2)
Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones
Bagthorpes Unlimited, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 3)
Bagthorpes vs the World, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 4)
Hidden Turnings, ed. Diana Wynne Jones
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli

October 2003

Mirabile, Janet Kagan
Bad Boy, Diana Wieler
A Tale of Time City, Diana Wynne Jones
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia Wrede
The Magician's Ward, Patricia Wrede (Sequel to Mairelon the Magician)
Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism, Nick Dyer-Witheford
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Danny Dunn, Scientific Detective, Jay Williams, Raymond Abrashkin
Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Impostors, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Just Ella, Margaret Peterson Haddix

November 2003

SpaceCamp, Joe Claro
Invitation to the Game, Monica Hughes
Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity, Michael Perelman
A String in the Harp, Nancy Bond
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Beginning Operations, James White (Sector General Omnibus)
Escape from Memory, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Alien Emergencies, James White (Sector General Omnibus)
Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey
Among the Betrayed, Margaret Peterson Haddix
First Test, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 1)
Page, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 2)
Squire, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 3)
Lady Knight, Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small 4)

December 2003

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
The Watson's Go To Birmingham - 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis
Amish Adventure, Barbara Smucker
The Silent Stars Go By, James White
Children of Morrow, H. M. Hoover
Treasures of Morrow, H. M. Hoover (Sequel to Children of Morrow)
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
This Time of Darkness, H. M. Hoover
Jumper, Steven Gould
The Shakespeare Stealer, Gary Blackwood
Shakespeare's Scribe, Gary Blackwood (Sequel to The Shakespeare Stealer)
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?, Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite
The Political Economy of Communication, Vincent Mosco
Paper Mage, Leah R. Cutter
Bagthorpes Abroad, Helen Cresswell (Bagthorpe Saga 5)
Reunion, Michael Jan Friedman (Star Trek TNG)
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Hunting Party, Elizabeth Moon
Fifth Quarter, Tanya Huff
High Wizardry, Diane Duane (Young Wizards)
A Wizard Abroad, Diane Duane (Young Wizards)
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
The Delikon, H. M. Hoover
Beyond Uhura, Nichell Nichols
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling

Books Read in 2002

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January, 2002

The Element of Fire, Martha Wells
Strange New Worlds, ed. Dean Wesley Smith
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling

February, 2002

On Basilisk Station, David Weber
Mathemagics, Margaret Ball
Shockball, S.L. Viehl
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff
The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Tom Clancy
Brother to Shadows, Andre Norton

March, 2002

Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Stark's Crusade, John G. Hemry
The Better Part of Valor, Tanya Huff
Agent of Vega & other stories, James H. Schmitz, ed. Eric Flint, Guy Gordon
The Mystery of the Aleph, Amir D. Aczel
Sharpe's Tiger, Bernard Cromwell

April, 2002

I Dare, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen webscription)
Sharpe's Tiger, Bernard Cromwell
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper
The First Amendment, Ashley McConnell (Stargate SG-1)
Being Human, Peter David (ST: New Frontier 12)
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein

May, 2002

Stark's War, John G. Hemry
Stark's Command, John G. Hemry
Stark's Crusade, John G. Hemry
Starfist 3: Steel Gauntlet, David Sherman, Dan Cragg
The Interior Life, Katherine Blake (aka Dorothy Heydt)
Diplomatic Immunity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Higher Education, Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle
Alien Emergencies, James White (Ambulance Ship, Sector General, Star Healer)

June, 2002

The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett
Slan, A. E. van Vogt
Children of Hope, David Feintuch
Lost Race of Mars, Robert Silverberg
The Runaway Robot, Lester del Rey
Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne
The Keeper of the Isis Light, Monica Hughes
Space Trap, Monica Hughes
Bouncing off the Moon, David Gerrold
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Where Have You Been, Billy Boy?, Monica Hughes
Neuromancer, William Gibson
From Anna, Jean Little
The Refuge, Monica Hughes
My Name is Paula Popowich!, Monica Hughes
The Truth About Catalogers, Will Manley
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Dawn Rider, Jan Hudson
Pi-Oui, Suzanne Martel
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, Donald J. Sobol
The Visitor, K. A. Applegate (Animorphs 2)
Mine For Keeps, Jean Little
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

July, 2002

Nos amis robots, Suzanne Martel
Quatre Montrealais en l'an 3000, Suzanne Martel
Jeanne, fille du Roi, Suzanne Martel
Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
The Trouble on Janus, Alfred Slote
Rabbit Ears, Alfred Slote
Tom's Midnight Garden, Phillipa Pearce
The Whispering Mountain, Joan Aiken
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Eleanor Cameron
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
His Banner Over Me, Jean Little
The Universe Between, Alan E. Nourse
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbit
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
The Boy in Red, Violet Needham
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Summer Reading is Killing Me, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Orvis, H. M. Hoover
The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman, Louise Plummer
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
Running Out of Time, Margaret Peterson Haddix
2095, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Star Hatchling, Margaret Bechard
The Invasion, K. A. Applegate (Animorphs 1)
Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy from Mars, Daniel M. Pinkwater
The White Mountains, John Christopher (Tripods 1)
This Time of Darkness, H. M. Hoover
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Nancy Farmer
Anna to the Infinite Power, Mildred Ames
Knights of the Kitchen Table, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
The Not So Jolly Roger, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Your Mother was a Neanderthal, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
A Tale of Time City, Dianna Wynne Jones
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
The Kid who got Zapped Through Time, Deborah Scott
Bunnicula, Deborah and James Howe
Shadow of a Bull, Maia Wojciechowska
The Nature of a Work, Richard P. Smiraglia
The Green Futures of Tycho, William Sleator
The Story of Abigail Becker: The Heroine of Long Point, as told by her step-daughter; Mrs. Henry Wheeler, R. Calvert. (1899)

August, 2002

Michele Landsberg's Guide to Children's Books, Michele Landsberg
The Celery Stalks at Midnight, James Howe
Bunnicula Strikes Again, James Howe
The Encounter, K. A. Applegate (Animorphs 3)
Knight's Castle, Edward Eager
"You Can Tell Your Kid Will Grow Up To Be a Librarian When...", Richard Lee
Moses Goes to a Concert, Isaac Millman
SpecOps Squad: Deep Strike, Rick Shelley
Tut, Tut, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Apple is My Sign, Mary Riskind
The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Milo Davis Roberts
I.O.D.E. The Third Twenty-five Years, May G. Kertland
The Book Stops Here, Catherine Suyak Alloway
The City of Gold and Lead, John Christopher (Tripods 2)
My Names is Brain Brian, Jeanne Betancourt
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke, Roald Dahl
Anson's Way, Gary D. Schmidt
Losing Joe's Place, Gordon Korman
Caleb's Choice, G. Clifton Wisler
The Warslayer, Rosemary Edgehill (Baen Webscription)
Make-Believe Ball Player, Alfred Slote
The Gauntlet, Ronald Welch
The Crossroads of Time, Andre Norton
The Golden Aquarians, Monica Hughes
An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks
Parvana's Journey, Deborah Ellis (Sequel to The Breadwinner)
Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising 1)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Star Risk, Ltd., Chris Bunch
Med Ship, Murray Leinster, edited by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon
Deep Secret, Dianna Wynne Jones
To Trade the Stars, Julie E. Czerneda (Trade Pact Universe 3)
Mother of Demons, Eric Flint
The Bladerunner, Alan E. Nourse
FirstFlight, Chris Claremont (Lt. Shea 1)

September, 2002

Grounded!, Chris Claremont (Lt. Shea 2)
Orphans of the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein [Dated. Annoying.]
Orvis, H. M. Hoover
When the Devil Dances, John Ringo
War Cry, Keith Douglas (Seal Team Seven)
The Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede (Sequel to Mairelon the Magician)
The Magickers, Emily Drake (Magickers 1)
A Tale of Time City, Dianna Wynne Jones
Bobby's Girl, J. D. Austin
Wheel of the Infinite, Martha Wells
Strange Attractors, William Sleator
The Duplicate, William Sleator
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

October, 2002

See You Later, Gladiator, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Wizard's Hall, Jane Yolen
A Tale of Time City, Dianna Wynne Jones
Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel
The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising 2)
A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy Farmer
Law and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule the Telecosm, Peter Huber
Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy, Marc Raboy
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, Lawrence Lessig
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig
It's All Greek To Me!, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry

November, 2002

Sam Samurai, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
A College of Magics, Caroline Stevermer
Impunity Jane, Rumer Godden
Sunwing, Kenneth Oppel (Sequel to Silverwing)
Greenwitch, Susan Cooper (The Dark is Rising 3)
Interstellar Pig, William Sleator
Nobody, Nowhere, Donna Williams
Belles on Their Toes, Frank B. Gilbreth jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
Hellspark, Janet Kagan

December, 2002

Flatterland, like Flatland only more so, Ian Stewart
Rats, Bats & Vats, Dave Freer, Eric Flint
Knights of the Kitchen Table, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
Seeing I, Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman (Doctor Who)
Summer Reading Is Killing Me, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
2095, Jon Scieszka (Time Warp Trio)
The Garden Behind the Moon, Howard Pyle
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
The Magician's Ward, Patricia C. Wrede (Sequel to Mairelon the Magician)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
A School for Sorcery, E. Rose Sabin
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
The Fantasies of Robert Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Partners in Necessity, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (Conflict of Honours, Agent of Change, Carpe Diem)
Plan B, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
A Gift of Dragons, Anne McCaffrey

Books Read in 2001

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January, 2001

The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz (Baen webscription)
Partners in Necessity, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee (Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, Carpe Diem)
The Independent Command, James Doohan, S. M. Stirling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
With the Lightnings, David Drake (Baen Webscription)
Plan B, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee
The Biology of Star Trek, Jenkins and Jenkins
Shanji, James C. Glass(Baen Free Library)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
Excalibur: Restoration, Peter David (Star Trek: New Frontier 11)
Endurance, S. L. Viehl
The Physics of Star Trek, Lawrence M. Krauss
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
Borderlands of Science, Charles Sheffield
Nellie L., Connie Brummel Crook

February, 2001

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Trigger and Friends, James H. Schmitz, ed. Eric Flint, Guy Gordon
Mother of Demons, Eric Flint
Foundation's Fear, Gregory Benford
Choosers of the Slain, James H. Cobb
Sea Strike, James H. Cobb
Sea Fighter, James H. Cobb
Stars Over Stars, K. D. Wentworth

March, 2001

Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
Changer of Worlds, David Weber, Eric Flint
Foundation and Chaos, Greg Bear
Foundation's Triumph, David Brin
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
Flag in Exile, David Weber
Evil Geniuses for Dummies, J.D. "Illiad" Frazer
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
Crusade, David Weber, Steve White
Avalance Solder, Susan R. Matthews
Remnant Population, Elizabeth Moon

April, 2001

Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
Galactic Patrol, E. E. "Doc" Smith
Stark's War, John G. Hemry
Empress of Light, James C. Glass
The Hub: Dangerous Territory, James H. Schmitz, ed. Eric Flint, Guy Gordon

May, 2001

Murphy's Gambit, Syne Mitchell
Pilot's Choice, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee (Local Custom, Scout's Progress)
Avatar Part 1, S. D. Perry (Star Trek: DS9)
Avatar Part 2, S. D. Perry (Star Trek: DS9)
A Thousand Words for Stranger, Julie E. Czerneda
Jumper, Steven Gould

June, 2001

Ties of Power, Julie E. Czerneda
Wildside, Steven Gould
Federation World, James White
Mathemagics, Margaret Ball
Oath of Gold, Elizabeth Moon
In Death Ground, David Weber, Steve White
Stark's Command, John G. Hemry

July, 2001

Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Elizabeth Moon
Divided Allegiance, Elizabeth Moon
The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg, G. Clifton Wisler
The Merchant Prince, Armin Shimerman, Michael Scott
March Upcountry, David Weber, John Ringo
Helm, Steven Gould
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Starfist: First to Fight, David Sherman, Dan Cragg
Shards of Alderaan (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Diversity Alliance (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta

August, 2001

Delusions of Grandeur (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Jedi Bounty (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
The Emperor's Plague (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Return to Ord Mantell (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Hyperspace, Michio Kaku
Trouble on Cloud City (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Crisis at Crystal Reef (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Spectre of the Past (Star Wars), Timothy Zahn
Vision of the Future (Star Wars), Timothy Zahn
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Final Diagnosis, James White
Cobra Bargain, Timothy Zahn

September, 2001

Heirs of the Force (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees
Gust Front, John Ringo
Shadow Academy (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Lost Ones (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Lightsabers (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Dune, Frank Herbert
Jumping Off the Planet, David Gerrold
Darkest Knight (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
Jedi Under Siege (Star Wars), Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
The Wizard's Dilemma, Diane Duane
Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist, Guy Consolmagno

October, 2001

The Green Hills of Earth, Robert A. Heinlein
Little Men, Louisa May Alcott
Jumping off the Planet, David Gerrold
Spec Ops Squad: Holding the Line, Rick Shelley
Undersea Fleet, Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
Undersea City, Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Mirabile, Janet Kagan

November, 2001

The Gauntlet, Ronald Welch
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling
Beginning Operations, James White (Hospital Station, Star Surgeon, Major Operation)
Code Blue Emergency, James White
Dream Park, Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre

December, 2001

The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert A. Heinlein
The Menace from Earth, Robert A. Heinlein
Have Spacesuit-Will Travel, Robert A. Heinlein
Bouncing off the Moon, David Gerrold
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
March to the Sea, David Weber, John Ringo
The Skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey

Books Read in 2000

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January, 2000

Cobra Bargain, Timothy Zahn
DreamSnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Beyond the Dark River, Monica Hughes
Uhura's Song, Janet Kagan (Star Trek)
The IDIC Epidemic, Jean Lorrah (Star Trek)
Code Blue - Emergency, James White
Double Contact, James White
Rockets, Redheads & Revolution, James P. Hogan
Star Surgeon, James White
Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O'Brian
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
Voyage from Yesteryear, James P. Hogan

February, 2000

The White Papers, James White
Indistinguishable from Magic, Robert L. Forward
Mike and Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse
Patriarch's Hope, David Feintuch
Psmith in the City, P. G. Wodehouse
The Billion Dollar boy, Charles Sheffield
Ashes of Victory, David Weber (Baen webscription)
Vulcan's Forge, Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz (Star Trek)
Psmith, Journalist, P. G. Wodehouse
The Phantom Menace, Terry Brooks
Avalanche Soldier, Susan R. Matthews

March, 2000

Full Dress Gray, Lucian K. Truscott
Leave it to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse
Avalanche Soldier, Susan R. Matthews
Outward Bound, James P. Hogan
How Much For Just the Planet?, John M. Ford
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Seven Years of Highly Defective People, Scott Adams
Major Operation, James White
Voyage from Yesteryear, James P. Hogan
Path of the Fury, David Weber
Higher Education, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Sheffield
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
The Apocalypse Troll, David Weber
Mind Changer, James White

April, 2000

On Basilisk Station, David Weber
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Mutineer's Moon, David Weber
The Armageddon Inheritance, David Weber
Heirs of Empire, David Weber
DragonSinger, Anne McCaffrey
Caught in the Crossfire, David Drake
Outward Bound, James P. Hogan
User Friendly the comic strip, Illiad

May, 2000

On the Oceans of Eternity, S. M. Stirling
I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot, Scott Adams
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
Telzey Amberdoon, James H. Schmitz, ed. Eric Flint, Guy Gordon
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Survey Ship, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
A Boy and His Tank, Leo Frankowski
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein

June, 2000

Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
Island in the Sea of Time, S. M. Stirling
Against the Tide of Years, S. M. Stirling
Podkayne of Mars, Robert A. Heinlein
A Tradition of Victory, Alexander Kent
Double Star, Robert A. Heinlein
Brother to Shadows, Andre Norton
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
Crisis on Conshelf Ten, Monica Hughes
Success to the Brave, Alexander Kent
Hospital Station, James White

July, 2000

Laura's Choice, Connie Brummel Crook
Lieutenant Colonel, Rick Shelley
So You Want To Be a Wizard?, Diane Duane
Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane
High Wizardry, Diane Duane
The Tower and the Hive, Anne McCaffrey
Ashes of Victory, David Weber
A Stitch in Time, Andrew J. Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
'Tis, Frank McCourt
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
Mathemagics, Margaret Ball
Vulcan's Heart, Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz (Star Trek)
A Wizard Abroad, Diane Duane
Nellie's Quest, Connie Brummel Crook
Nellie's Victory, Connie Brummel Crook
Rite of Passage, Alexei Panshin
Get Off the Unicorn, Anne McCaffrey

August, 2000

Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
Sing the Four Quarters, Tanya Huff
For Better or For Worse: The Tenth Anniversary Collection, Lynn Johnston
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Billion Dollar Boy, Charles Sheffield
Captain's Courageous, Rudyard Kipling (Project Gutenberg)
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Agent of Change, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee
T'NT: Telzey & Trigger Together, James H. Schmitz, ed. Eric Flint, Guy Gordon
Fifth Quarter, Tanya Huff
No Quarter, Tanya Huff
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Choosers of the Slain, James H. Cobb
Sea Strike, James H. Cobb
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling
Rules of Engagement, Elizabeth Moon
Cobra, Timothy Zahn

September, 2000

Cobra Strike, Timothy Zahn
Cobra Bargain, Timothy Zahn
Higher Education, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Sheffield
Kiss the Dust, Elizabeth Laird
The Quiet Place, Peter David (Star Trek: New Frontier 7)
Dark Allies, Peter David (Star Trek: New Frontier 8)
Excalibur: Requiem, Peter David (Star Trek: New Frontier 9)
Captain Proton!, Dean Wesley Smith (Star Trek: Voyager)
Excalibur: Renaissance, Peter David (Star Trek: New Frontier 10)
Empire of the Eagle, Andre Norton, Susan Schwartz
Choosers of the Slain, James H. Cobb
Sea Strike, James H. Cobb

October, 2000

The Book of Night With Moon, Diane Duane
To Visit the Queen, Diane Duane
The Chick is in the Mail, ed. Esther Freisner (Baen webscription)
The Dream Catcher, Monica Hughes
The Galactic Gourmet, James White
Carpe Diem, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee
Plan B, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee
Captain's Table: Once Burned, Peter David (Star Trek: New Frontier)
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Pegasus in Space, Anne McCaffrey
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
My Enemy, My Ally, Diane Duane (Star Trek)
Swordhunt, Diane Duane (Star Trek)
Honor Blade, Diane Duane (Star Trek)

November, 2000

The Romulan Way, Diane Duane (Star Trek)
Stardoc, S. L. Viehl
Trials and Tribble-ations, Diane Carey, et al (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
A Hymn Before Battle, John Ringo (Baen webscription)
Beyond Varallan, S. L. Viehl
1632, Eric Flint
Sea Fighter, James H. Cobb
The Right to Arm Bears, Gordon R. Dickson (Baen webscription)
Colonel, Rick Shelley
Outward Bound, James P. Hogan
Change of Command, Elizabeth Moon (Baen webscription)
Against the Odds, Elizabeth Moon (Baen webscription)
Black on Black, K. D. Wentworth(Baen Free Library)
Mother of Demons, Eric Flint (Baen Free Library)
Patriot Games, Tom Clancy

December, 2000

Dykstra's War, Jeffery D. Kooistra (Baen webscription)
Hunting Party, Elizabeth Moon (Baen webscription)
With the Lightnings, David Drake
Silent Voices, Oliver Sacks
Sporting Chance, Elizabeth Moon
The Rising, James Doohan, S. M. Stirling (Baen webscription)
Winning Colors, Elizabeth Moon
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Valor's Choice, Tanya Huff
Insurrection, David Weber, Steve White
Indian Boyhood, Charles Eastman (Project Gutenberg)
The Privateer, James Doohan, S. M. Stirling
Pathways, Jeri Taylor (Star Trek: Voyager)

Books Read in 1999

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January, 1999

Fisherman's Hope, David Feintuch
The Far Side of the World, Patrick O'Brian
Desolation Island, Patrick O'Brian
The Best of James H. Schmitz, James H. Schmitz
La Baie du Nord, Suzanne Martel
The Reverse of the Medal, Patrick O'Brian
More Than Honor, David Weber
The Genocidal Healer, James White
The Letter of Marque, Patrick O'Brian
The Mauritius Command, Patrick O'Brian
A Random Walk in Science, Robert L. Weber
Worlds of Honor, David Weber

February, 1999

The Thirteen Gun Salute, Patrick O'Brian
Mathemagics, Margaret Ball
The Demon Breed, James H. Schmitz
More Random Walks in Science, Robert L. Weber
Prometheus, William R. Forstchen
Captain, Rick Shelley (DMC)
Until Relieved, Rick Shelley (Lucky 13th)
The Nutmeg of Consolation, Patrick O'Brian
All Things Wise and Wonderful, James Herriot
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
The Golden Ocean, Patrick O'Brian
The Unknown Shore, Patrick O'Brian
Collected Short Stories, Patrick O'Brian
Dawn Rider, Jan Hudson
Once a Hero, Elizabeth Moon

March, 1999

Clarissa Oakes, Patrick O'Brian
James Herriot's Animal Stories, James Herriot
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Richard Feynman
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot
Full Dress Gray, Lucian K. Truscott
Rules of the Road, Lucian K. Truscott
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
Cheaper by the Dozen, F. Gilbreth and E. Gilbreth Carey
Star Surgeon, James White
Sector General, James White
Major Operation, James White
Dress Gray, Lucian K. Truscott
Code Blue - Emergency, James White
Ambulance Ship, James White

April, 1999

The Honor of the Queen, David Weber
The Wine Dark Sea, Patrick O'Brian
Programming Pearl 2nd Ed., Larry Wall, et al
Honor Among Enemies, David Weber
The Commodore, Patrick O'Brian
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian
Jump Pay, Rick Shelley
The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?, P. G. Wodehouse
Sandwriter, Monica Hughes
Invitation to the Game, Monica Hughes
Mike and Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse

May, 1999

Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Elizabeth Moon
Divided Allegiance, Elizabeth Moon
Oath of Gold, Elizabeth Moon
The Hundred Days, Patrick O'Brian
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
The Heart of a Goof, P. G. Wodehouse
Full Dress Gray, Lucian K. Truscott
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
Ambulance Ship, James White
Future's Past, James White
Path of the Fury, David Weber
Final Diagnosis, James White
The Galactic Gourmet, James White
Code Blue - Emergency, James White
Sector General, James White

June, 1999

MindChanger, James White
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
The War God's Own, David Weber
Command a King's Ship, Alexander Kent
Article 23, William R. Forstchen
Colours Aloft, Alexander Kent
Sloop of War, Alexander Kent
Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
How Much For Just The Planet?, John M. Ford
Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh
Fugitive from the Cubicle Police, Scott Adams
Red Storm Rising, Tom Clancy

July, 1999

Island in the Sea of Time, S. M. Stirling
Hunting Party, Elizabeth Moon
Sporting Chance, Elizabeth Moon
Winning Colours, Elizabeth Moon
Against the Tide of Years, S. M. Stirling
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cheaper by the Dozen, F. Gilbreth and E. Gilbreth Carey
Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert A. Heinlein
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mathemagics, Margaret Ball
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Chicks in Chainmail, ed. Esther Freisner
Starman Jones, Robert A. Heinlein
Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
Did we say Chicks?, ed. Esther Freisner
Women at War, ed. Lois McMaster Bujold, Roland Green

August, 1999

Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cetaganda, Lois McMaster Bujold
Worlds of Honor, David Weber
The Watch Below, James White
Solo Command, Aaron Allston (Star Wars: X-Wing 7)
Ethan of Athos, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold
Mirror Dance, Lois McMaster Bujold
Memory, Lois McMaster Bujold
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Star Healer, James White
Mike at Wrykyn, P. G. Wodehouse
Dreamweaver's Dilemma, Lois McMaster Bujold
Treason's Harbour, Patrick O'Brian
The Girl in Blue, P. G. Wodehouse
Higher Education, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Sheffield
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
Jeeves & the Tie That Binds, P. G. Wodehouse
The Billion Dollar Boy, Charles Sheffield

September, 1999

Legacy, James H. Schmitz
Ring-Rise Ring-Set, Monica Hughes
The Faces of Fear, Monica Hughes
Chicks'n Chained Males, ed. Esther Freisner
Mirabile, Janet Kagan
Putting Up Roots, Charles Sheffield
The Cyborg from Earth, Charles Sheffield
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
StarSwarm, Jerry Pournelle
The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams
Star Healer, James White
Pulitzer, L. Elizabeth Storm (Quantum Leap)
Komarr, Lois McMaster Bujold
Dreamweaver's Dilemma, Lois McMaster Bujold
Cheaper by the Dozen, F. Gilbreth and E. Gilbreth Carey
Asimov on Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov

October, 1999

Tunnel in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Red Planet, Robert A. Heinlein
Rocket Ship Galileo, Robert A. Heinlein
Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford
Higher Education, Jerry Pournelle, Charles Sheffield
Space Cadet, Robert A. Heinlein
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Journey to Cubeville, Scott Adams
Geons, Black Holes & Quantum Foam, John A. Wheeler, K. Ford
The Genocidal Healer, James White
Heart of War, Lucian K. Truscott
Isard's Revenge, Michael A. Stackpole (Star Wars: X-Wing 8)

November, 1999

Lieutenant, Rick Shelley
Captain, Rick Shelley
The Rolling Stones, Robert A. Heinlein
Doctor's Orders, Diane Duane
The Genocidal Healer, James White
Hypatia's Heritage, Margaret Alic
Putting Up Roots, Charles Sheffield
The Billion Dollar Boy, Charles Sheffield
Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger, Anne McCaffrey
The Star Beast, Robert A. Heinlein
Dragondrums, Anne McCaffrey
A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
Young Miles, Lois McMaster Bujold
Borders of Infinity, Lois McMaster Bujold
Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold

December, 1999

Cobra, Timothy Zahn
The Cyborg From Earth, Charles Sheffield
Double Contact, James White [*sigh* As good as always.]
Starfighters of Adumar, Aaron Allston (Star Wars: X-Wing 9)
The Galactic Gourmet, James White
Mind Changer, James White
Star Voyager Academy, William R. Forstchen
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, J. K. Rowling
Cobra Strike, Timothy Zahn
So You Want to be a Wizard, Diane Duane (Young Wizards 1)
Minds, Machines & Evolution, James P. Hogan
Major, Rick Shelley
Final Diagnosis, James White

Books Read in 1998

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November, 1998 (incomplete)

Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
Post Captain, Patrick O'Brian
The Age of Chivalry (National Geographic)
Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Clara and Richard Winston
To Ride Pegasus, Anne McCaffrey
Pegasus in Flight, Anne McCaffrey
Sector General, James White
HMS Surprise, Patrick O'Brian
Mind Changer, James White
Hellspark, Janet Kagan
The White Papers, James White
The Code of the Woosters, P. G. Wodehouse

December, 1998

Sector General, James White
The Aliens Among Us, James White
Deadly Litter, James White
Bachelors Anonymous, P. G. Wodehouse
The Galactic Gourmet, James White
Barbary, Vonda N. McIntyre
Stand Into Danger, Alexander Kent
Star Surgeon, James White
Lifeboat, James White
On Basilisk Station, David Weber
The Secret Visitors, James White
The Fortune of War, Patrick O'Brian
Midshipman Bolitho, Alexander Kent
Echoes of Honor, David Weber
The Surgeon's Mate, Patrick O'Brian
The Ionian Mission, Patrick O'Brian
Code Blue - Emergency, James White
The Silent Stars Go By, James White