18 July 2008 Books I've read since 3 Feb 2004. Grepped from a journal file, so some sentence fragments came along. (re) means that was a re-reading. _shrinking the cat_, sue hubbell _the extended phenotype_, dawkins (re) _Orangutans_ Anne Russon _the selfish gene_, 2nd ed, Dawkins (re) _Red Strangers_, Elspeth Huxley _Soul Music_ (re) _Kate and Casey_, Hofstadter and Marilyn Stone _Kinds of Minds_, Dennett. (re) _The Underachieving School_, John Holt _The Two Cultures_, C. P. Snow. Overly defensive introduction. But it's odd _How Children Fail_, John Holt. _Escape from Childhood_, John Holt _Celestial Matters_, Richard Garfinkle _Moving Pictures_ (re) _Silent Thunder_, Katy Payne _What Do I Do Monday?_, John Holt _Sunshine_, Robin McKinley _Tom Paine Maru_, L. Neil Smith (re) _Freedom and Beyond_, John Holt _Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff_, Chistopher Moore _How Children Learn_, John Holt _Nickel and Dimed_, Barbara Ehrenreich _Paladin of Souls_, Bujold _Wyrd Sisters_, Pratchett. (re) _Sethra Lavode_, Brust. _Stories of Your Life_, Ted Chiang. _Brothers in Arms_, Bujold (re) _Memory_, Lois Bujold (re) _Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles_, Donald Norman _Kanzi_, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh _Snow Crash_ (re) _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_, Cory Doctorow _Words and Women_, Casey Miller and Kate Swift. Interesting points of gender _Bonobos: The Forgotten Ape_, Franz de Waal. _Ravens in Winter_, Bernd Heinrich _Nekropolis_, Maureen McHugh. _The Diamond Age_ (reread) _The Question of Animal Awareness_, Donald Griffin _Y the last man Book 3_ _Consciousness Explained_, Daniel Dennett. _Supergirl_, one of the later ones (re-read) _Books of Magic_ (re) _The Octopus and the Orangutan_, Eugene Linden. _Freedom Evolves_, Daniel Dennett _Pyramids of Life_, John Reader and Harvey Croze _Absolution Gap_, Alastair Reynolds _The Mind of the Raven_, Bernd Heinrich. Raven play and insight. Possible _Farnham's Freehold_, Heinlein. _I, Strahd_ P. N. Elrod _Dragonsinger_. (re) _Dragondrums_ (re) _A Hat Full of Sky_, Pratchett _The Orangutans_, Gisela Kaplan and Lesley Rogers _Minds of their own_, by Lesley Rogers. _The Traveller in Black_, John Brunner (Ariel's copy) _The Genius Within_, by Frank Vertosick _The Odyssey_, Robert Fitzgerald translator. _Alice in Puzzleland_, Raymond Smullyan _The Society of Mind_, Minsky (re) _Understanding Natual Language_, Terry Winograd _Hidden Order_, John Holland. _Spin State_, Chris Moriarty _Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations_, ed. Richard Belew and Melanie Mitchell _Have Spacesuit, Will Travel_, Heinlein _Stardust_, Neil Gaiman (re) _The Bible Unearthed_. Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman _FOUR WAYS OF BEING HUMAN: AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY_, Gene Lisitzky _Rainbow Mars_, Larry Niven _Pledged_, Alexandra Robbins. _Singularity Sky_, Charles Stross _The Peace War_, (re) Vernor Vinge _Eyes of Amber_, Joan Vinge _The Outcasts of Heaven Belt_, Joan Vinge _Murasaki_ _The Carpet People_ (re) _The Postman_, David Brin (re) _Otherness_, David Brin. And reviewed it. (re) _A History of US: From Colonies to Country_, Joy Hakim _Iron Sunrise_, Charles Stross. _The Atrocity Archives_, Charles Stross. _Newton's Wake_, Ken MacLeod. _Balance of Trade_, Lee and Miller _Planetary_ vol 1, Warren Ellis _Orbiter_, Ellis _Violent Cases_, Neil Gaiman. _Age of Bronze: Thousand Ships_, Eric Shanower. _Warriors of Rome_, Michale Simkins. Not very exciting illustrated history of _The Art of War_, Sun Tzu. Trans. Samuel Griffith _The Military Revolution_, Geoffrey Parker _Surveillance_, Julian May (re) _Going Postal_, Pratchett _Metaconcert_, Julian May (re) _Sunshine_, McKinley, (re) Still like it. Still cry when Yolande says she can _Making Thirteen Colonies_, Joy Hakim. _Tea with the Black Dragon_, R. A. MacAvoy, (re) _Lest Darkness Fall_, L. Sprague de Camp. _Grown Without Schooling_, Peter Kowalke (video) _Moby Dick_ (re) _Mirror Dance_, Bujold (re) _Typee_, Melville _Liberty for All?_, Joy Hakim _Unfinished Tales_, Tolkien (re) _The Family Trade_, Charles Stross _God Stalk_, P. C. Hodgell (re) _The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody_, Will Cuppy _The Piazza Tales_, Herman Melville _Rider at the Gate_, Cherryh, (re) _What the Numbers Say_, Derrick Niederman and David Boyum _The Math Gene_, Keith Devlin _The Best American Science Writing of 2004_, ed. Steven Pinker _The House of the Seven Gables_, Nathaniel Hawthorne _More than Human_, Sturgeon, (re) _Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell_, Susanna Clarke _Psychohistorical Crisis_, Donald Kingsbury _Finder: Mystery Date_, Carla Speed McNeil _The Prize in the Game_, Jo Walton _Wellstone_, Wil McCarthy _Dark Age Ahead_, Jane Jacobs _The Future Is Wild_ _A Hole in Texas_, Herman Wouk _The King's Peace_, Jo Walton (re) _Tooth and Claw_, Jo Walton _A Field Guide to Sprawl_, Dolores Hayden _The Ancestor's Tale_, Richard Dawkins _The Origins of Life_, John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary _The Computer and the Brain_, John von Neumann _Berserker Prime_, Fred Saberhagen _Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams_, Mitchel Resnick _The King's Name_, Jo Walton (re) _Dark of the Moon_, Hodgell (re) _Deerskin_, McKinley (re) _Tales from Watership Down_, Richard Adams _The Scar_, China Mieville _The Cooperative Gene_, Mark Ridley _The Island of the Colourblind and Cycad Island_, Oliver Sacks _Perdido Street Station_, China Mieville _The Bottomless Well_, Peter Huber and Mark P. Mills _Rubicon_, Stephen Saylor _Collapse_, Jared Diamond _Iron Council_, China Mieville _Souls in the Great Machine_, Sean McMullen _The Miocene Arrow_, Sean McMullen _Eyes of the Calculor_, Sean McMullen _The Gate to Women's Country_, Sheri Tepper _Lord of Light_, Zelazny (re) _The Complete Compleat Enchanter_, L. Sprague de Camp _Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare_, Paul Colinvaux _A Fire Upon the Deep_, Vinge (re) _A Wrinkle in Time_, L'Engle (re) _Evolution_, Mark Ridley _Watership Down_, Richard Adams (re) _A Wind in the Willows_, (re) _Treasure Island_, (re) _Metacat_, Jim Marshall (re) _Sparse Distributed Memory_, Pentti Kanerva _The Price We Pay_, Stargate SG-1 book _Enough's Enough_, Calvin Trillin _Plain Tales from the Hills_, Rudyard Kipling _How Brains Think_, William Calvin _The Cerebral Symphony_, William Calvin _Carry On, Jeeves_, Wodehouse _A Room of One's Own_, Virginia Woolf _Ascent of Mind_, William Calvin _Monkey_ _The Brain Gate_, J. Robert Hatherill _The New Brain_, Richard Restak _The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin_, Barbara Ulrich _Soul Made Flesh_, Carl Zimmer _The Modular Brain_, Richard Restak _The blank slate_, Stephen Pinker _Accelerando_, Charlie Stross _Going Postal_, Pratchett (re) _The Evolution of Cooperation_, Robert Axelrod _Paladin of Souls_, Bujold (re) _The Hallowed Hunt_, Bujold _Persepolis_, Marjane Satrapi _Age of Bronze: Sacrifice_, Eric Shanower. _Mobile Suit Gundam: The Last Outpost, Vol 3_ _Bright Air, Brilliant Fire_, Gerald Edelman _Emotions Revealed_, Paul Ekman _Tears of the Cheetah_, Stephen J. O'Brien _Kiki's Delivery Service_, Eiko Kadono, trans. Lynne Riggs _Howl's Moving Castle_, Diana Wynne Jones _Blade of the Immortal: Dreamsong_ _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol 2_, Alan Moore (re) _Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol 1_ _Castle in the Air_, Diana Wynne Jones _Sword Hunt_, Diane Duane _Honor Blade_, Diane Duane _Curse of Chalion_, Bujold (re) _The Cerebral Code_, William Calvin _The Complexity of Cooperation_, Robert Axelrod _A Brief History of the Mind_, William Calvin _How the Shaman Stole the Moon_, William Calvin _Ways of Seeing_, John Berger _Issola_, Steven Brust (re) _Strata_, Terry Pratchett (re) _Understanding Comics_, Scott McCloud (re) _GURPS: Steampunk_ _Finder: Adventures of a Sin-Eater_ (re) _Finder: the Rescuers_ _Snow Queen_, Joan Vinge (re) _Pale Fire_, Vladimir Nabokov _Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_, J. K. Rowling _Where does the weirdness go?_, David Lindley _Persepolis 2_, Marjane Satrapi _The Magic Flute_, drawn by P. Craig Russell _Batgirl: Year One_, Scott Beatty _A Hat Full of Sky_, Terry Pratchett (re) _The Kite Runner_, Khaled Hosseini _The Black Company_, Glen Cook (re) _Swamp Thing: Reunion_, Alan Moore (re) _Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop_, Neil Gershenfeld _Neverwhere_, Neil Gaiman (re) _The Count of Monte Cristo_ _Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind_, Hiyao Miyazaki _The Algebraic Mind_, Gary Marcus _The Botany of Desire_, Michael Pollan _Hellblazer: Original Sins_, Jamie Delano _Language Shock_, Michael Agar _The Hidden Family_, Charles Stross _Evolution_, Carl Zimmer _Astro City: Life in the Big City_, Kurt Busiek _Coinspinner's Story_, Saberhagen (re) _Thud!_, Terry Pratchett _One Human Minute_, Stanislaw Lem _Astro City: Family Album_: Kurt Busiek _Astro City: Confession_: Kurt Busiek _Star of Danger_, Marion Zimmber Bradley _The Shattered Chain_, Marion Zimmer Bradley _Finder: King of the Cats_ (re) _Century Rain_, Alastair Reynolds _Sunshine_, McKinley, (re) _Learning the World_, Ken MacLeod _A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market_, John Allen Paulos _The Creative Mind_, Margaret Boden _The Chosen_, Chaim Potok (re) _The Promise_, Chaim Potok (re) _38 Basic Joseki_, Kiyoshi Kosugi and James Davies _Dream Country_, Neil Gaiman (re) _Myth-Conceptions_, Robert Asprin (re) _In Search of the Ghost Bat_ _Last Chance to See_, Douglas Adams (re) _Sappho_, Willis Barnstone trans. _Poems of Catullus_, Peter Whigham trans. _The High King_, Lloyd Alexander (re) _Voyage to Arcturus_, David Lindsay _The Girl Who Played Go_, Shan Sa _King Rat_, China Mieville _Building Harlequin's Moon_, Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper _Raven's Children_, Layla Lawlor _Doubt: A History_, Jennifer Michael Hecht _Man-Kzin Wars VIII: Choosing Names_ _The Algebraist_, Iain M. Banks _The Light Fantastic_, Terry Pratchett (re) _Epicurus the Sage_, William Messner-Loebs, Sam Kieth _Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Back_, Frank Miller _Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon_, Daniel Dennett "All's Well That Ends Well", Shakespeare _Virus of the Mind_, Richard Brodie _Birth of the Mind_, Gary Marcus _Discourse Production_, Anthony Davey _Understanding Natual Language_, Terry Winograd (re) _Mental Leaps_, Holyoak and Thagard _Dynamic Memory_, Roger Schank _More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor_, George Lakoff and Mark Turner _Crystal Soldier_, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller _Guards, Guards_, Pratchett (re) _Harvest the Fire_, Poul Anderson _Akira_ 2-5 _Diplomatic Immunity_, Bujold (re) _Akira 6_ _The Hallowed Hunt_, Bujold (re) _Sweet MYTH-tery of life_, Robert Asprin _Crystal Dragon_, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller _The Golden Compass_, Phillip Pullman (re) _The Circus of Dr. Lao_, Charles Finney (re) _Doppleganger_, Marie Brennan _Vogelein: Clockwork Faerie_, Jane Irwin _Harald_, David D. Friedman _Rocket Science_, Jay Lake _Video Girl AI 1_ _Chobits 1_ _The Rising Stars of Manga 1_ _The High Crusade_, Poul Anderson _The Book of Merlyn_, T. H. White _Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies_, (re) _Life the Universe and Everything_, Douglas Adams (re) _So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish_, Douglas Adams (re) _Mostly Harmless_, Douglas Adams (re) _The Omnivore's Dilemma_, Michael Pollan _The Secrets of Jin-Shei_, Alma Alexander _Rainbows End_, Vernor Vinge _Plan and Purpose in Nature_, George C. Williams _Copycat_ (re) _Glasshouse_, Charles Stross _Voyager in Night_, Cherryh (re) _The Argumentative Indian_, Amartya Sen _The Twenty-One Balloons_, William Pene du Bois _Bridge of Birds_, Barry Hughart _The Story of the Stone_, Barry Hughart _Death Note 1-12_ _David and Solomon_, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman _Chobits 2 3 4 5 6 7_ _Chobits 8_ _The Devil's Doctor_, Philip Ball _Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy_, Douglas Adams (re) _Restaurant at the End of the Universe_, Adams (re) _The Dream of the Red Chamber_, translated by Florence and Isabel McHugh _Dzur_, Steven Brust _To Ride a Rathorn_, P. C. Hodgell _Starfish_, Peter Watts _A Million Open Doors_, John Barnes _The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm_, Nancy Farmer _Shadow of the Moon, Sea of Shadows_, Ono Fuyumi (Eugene Woodbury) _Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth_, Ono Fuyumi (Retrooo) _A Thousand Leagues of Wind, the Sky at Dawn_, Ono Fuyumi (Eugene Woodbury) _The Blade Itself_, Joe Abercrombie _Fables: 1001 Nights Snowfall_ _The Mob_, Clem Martini _Blindsight_, Peter Watts _The Simple Guide to Shinto_, Ian Reader _Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior_, Sara J. Shettleworth _The Water Mirror_, Kai Meyer _Natural Born Cyborgs_, Andy Clark _The Scar_, China Mieville (re) _King Solomon's Ring_, Konrad Lorenz (re) _Mage: Sorcerer's Crusade_ _Fables: Homelands_ _Mage: Void Engineers_ _Guide to the Technocracy_ _Mage: the Ascension_ _Warped Passages_, Lisa Randall _2006 Best American Science and Nature Writing_, ed. Brian Greene _Lud-in-the-Mist_, Hope Mirrlees (re) _Alice 19th 1_ _The Earth Book of Stormgate_, Poul Anderson _The God Delusion_, Richard Dawkins _The Final Reflection_, John Ford (re) _Spirit of the Century_ _The Education of Koko_, Francis Patterson and Eugene Linden _The Sharing Knife: Beguilement_, Lois McMaster Bujold _Jhereg_, Steven Brust (re) _Spineless Wonders_, Richard Conniff (re) _The Life Eaters_, David Brin _Lady of Mazes_, Karl Schroeder _Serenity_, Keith DeCandido _The Practice Effect_, David Brin _Qin: The Warring States_ _The Aeneid_, Robert Fagles translation _GURPS Bunnies and Burrows_, Steffan O'Sullivan _Mazes and Minotaurs_ _Mirrormask_, Neil Gaiman _Parasite Rex_, Carl Zimmer (re) _The Mind of an ape_, David Premack and Ann James Premack _Monstrous Regiment_, Terry Pratchett (re) _Going Postal_, Terry Pratchett (re) _2000 Years of Disbelief_, James Haught _The Witling_, Vernor Vinge (re) _The Umbrella Man and Other Stories_, Roald Dahl _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_, Alan Moore (re) _The Mongols_, David Morgan _Daily Life in China on the eve of the Mongol Invasion 1250-1276_, Jacques Gernet _Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee_, Robert van Gulik (trans) _Urbis_ _Justice by Lottery_, Barbara Goodwin _On the Origin of PCs_, Rich Burlew (re) _To Ride a Rathorn_, P.C. Hodgell (re) _Groo Hounddog_ _Groo Library_ _I Am a Strange Loop_, Douglas Hofstadter _To Mock A Mockingbird_, Raymond Smullyan _Maelstrom_, Peter Watts _Hacking Matter_, Wil McCarthy _The Fortunate Fall_, Raphael Carter _Shards of Honor_, Lois Bujold (re) _Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow_ (Tokyopop) _Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell_, Susanna Clarke (re) _The Year of My Life_, Issa, trans Nobuyuki Yuasa _The Master of Go_, Yasunari Kawabata, tr. Edward Seidensticker _The Makioka Sisters_, Junichiro Tanizaki, tr. unknown _Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi_, Jonathan Spence _Mirror Dance_, Bujold (re) _Fairy Tales of China_ _Adaptation and Natural Selection_, George Williams _Emma_, Jane Austen (re) _Scrapped Princess: Tale of Destiny_, Ichiro Sakaki _Scrapped Princess: Song of the Forgiven_, Ichiro Sakaki _Scrapped Princess: Requiem for the Infidels_, Ichiro Sakaki _The Screwtape Letters_, C. S. Lewis _Frankenstein_, Mary Shelley (re) _Enough's Enough_, Calvin Trillin (re) _The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect_, Roger Williams _Lords of Madness: The Book of Aberrations_ _Manual of the Planes_ _Redemption Ark_, Alastair Reynolds (re) _What is your dangerous idea?_, ed. John Brockman _Fables: Homelands_ (re) _Mere Christianity_, C. S. Lewis _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_, J. K. Rowling _OotS: Start of Darkness_, Rich Burlew _Stardust_ (re) _Decameron_ _Chances Are... Adventures in Probability_, Michael and Ellen Kaplan _The Clan Corporate_, Charles Stross _Liaden Unibus_, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller _Toast_, Charles Stross _Tasogare no Kishi, Akatsuki no Sora (The Shore in Twilight, The Sky in Daybreak)_, Fuyumi Ono (Ajisai trans) _Revelation Space_, Alastair Reynolds (re) _The Jennifer Morgue_, Charlie Stross _Halting State_, Charlie Stross _The Execution Channel_, Ken MacLeod _Wintersmith_, Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_, Terry Pratchett (re) _Schlock Mercenary_: The Blackness Between_, Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_: Under New Management_, Howard Tayler _Thud!_, Terry Pratchett (re) _A Natural History of the Rich_, Richard Conniff _The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need_, Andrew Tobias (re) _The Also People_, Ben Aaronovitch _Transhuman Space_, David Pulver _First Contract_, Greg Costikyan _Ventus_, Karl Schroeder _Finder: Five Crazy Women_ _Finder: Sin-Eater 1_ _Errant Story_ _Finder: Sin-Eater 2_ _Ancient Engineers_, L. Sprague de Camp _The Black and White Treatise_ _Exalted_ _Sunshine_, Robin McKinley (re) _Clubbing_, Andi Watson, Josh Howard (re) _The Adventure of Remi_ _Photographing Farmworkers in California_, Richard Steven Street _Variable Star_, Spider Robinson _Comme il Faut_ _Re-Gifters_, Mike Carey _The Plain Janes_, Cecil Castellucci _Making Money_, Terry Pratchett _xxxHolic_ _the dreaming_, Queenie Chan _Usagi Yojimbo Vol 1_ _Trial of Flowers_, Jay Lake _The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi_, Tanigawa Nagaru _The Sighs of Suzumiya Haruhi_, Tanigawa Nagaru _Manual of Exalted Power: Lunars_ _Dragonhaven_, Robin McKinley _Onegai Teacher #1_ _Spike: Shadow Puppets_ _Gurps Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri_ _The Compass of Celestial Directions: the Wyld_ _Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle 1-5_ _My Own Kind of Freedom_, Steven Brust _Technocracy Assembled: 2_ _Roll of Glorious Divinity: Gods and Elementals_ _The Compass of Terrestrial Directions: the West_ _The Compass of Terrestrial Directions: the Scavenger Lands_ _Ruins of Rathess_ _Games of Divinity_ _The Door in the Hedge_, Robin McKinley _A Knot in the Grain_, Robin McKinley (re) _Bastions of the North_ _Damiano_, R. A. MacAvoy (re) _Fleet of Worlds_, Larry Niven and Edward Lerner _The Draco Tavern_, Larry Niven _Psychohistorical Crisis_, Donald Kingsbury (re) _Compass of Celestial Directions: Yu-Shan_ _Manual of Exalted Power: Abyssals_ _In Defense of Food_, Michael Pollan _The Merchant's War_, Charles Stross _Matter_, Iain M Banks _The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya_ _The Rampage of Haruhi Suzumiya_ _The Shore in Twilight, the Sky in Daybreak_, Fuyumi Ono/Eugene Woodbury _Exalted: Blood and Salt_ _Caste: Twilight_ _Savant and Sorcerer_ _Caste Book: Night_ _Caste Book: Eclipse_ _Caste Book: Zenith_ _Caste Book: Dawn_ _The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya_ _Venus versus Virus 2_ _Book of Celestial Directions: Underworld_ _Exalted: Fair Folk_ _The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya_ _The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya_ _Northanger Abbey_ (re) _The Dissociation of Suzumiya Haruhi_ _The Boredom of Suzumiya Haruhi_ _Mansfield Park_ (re) _Buddha 3-8_, Osamu Tezuka _Hollow Fields 1-2_ _Lands of Creation_, Exalted _Lords of Creation_, Exalted