false 1714801 http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookS... Conservative but definitely *not* into Creationism/Intelligent Design or anti-Darwinism.]]> 64 female Seattle, WA 11/2008 12/2009 4 88 61 true 5726100 read 27 true 3757387 currently-reading 0 true 3757386 to-read 7 false 3769099 encyclopedic 4 false 3807185 reference The Spy Who Haunted Me (Secret Histories, #3) by Simon R. Green]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81593179 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TrKjXAFIL._SL75_.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:00:58 -0800 more...]]> Fire in the Grove: The Coconut Grove Tragedy and its Aftermath (Hardcover) by John C. Esposito]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80434877 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:44:46 -0800 more...]]> Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe (Paperback) by Peter Ward]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78978215 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171135354s/88552.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:18:12 -0800 more...]]> The Night Country (Paperback) by Loren Eiseley]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78698833 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223646202s/98714.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:32:19 -0800
It may be a tenebrous peace, in the crepuscular dimming of the world just after sunset, but it is always peace. And his The Night Country is one of the refuges from the human-haunted world I prefer above all.

In one of the essays coll...more...]]> Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions (Hardcover) by Peter D. Ward]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77869875 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186543079s/1663793.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:49:32 -0800 Rivers in Time, Peter Ward presents what is known -- and not known -- about great mass extinctions, especially the Permian-Triassic, K/T, and Modern ones. As protected as we in the West are from natu...more...]]> Juggler of Worlds (Mass Market Paperback) by Larry Niven]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68632228 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gHP0XG3DL._SL75_.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:16:11 -0700
For far too long, Pierson's Puppeteers have controlled the fates of worlds throughout Known Space. Now Sigmund is pulling the Puppeteers' strings, and they don't like...more...]]> Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, #4) by Dean Koontz]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64940145 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41xosmqYKBL._SL75_.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:44:20 -0700
That is considered politically incorrect in many circles. My response: screw political correctness! Koontz's novels are fast-paced, gripping, with sympathetic heroes and nasty villains, involving real and important moral issues as well as a helluva good read. This ...more...]]> The Incompleat Nifft (Mass Market Paperback) by Michael Shea]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64938445 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171484024s/101951.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:25:30 -0700 Nifft the Lean, and then, years later, as The Incompleat Nifft. Here are the chronicles of Master Thief Nifft the Lean and his companion, Barnar Hammer-Hand, ...more...]]> Testimony (Hardcover) by Anita Shreve]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64151106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255912635s/3121162.jpg 1714801 Yael http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1226624084p2/1714801.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1714801-yael Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:30:08 -0700 more...]]>