The major event of August 2005 was my first Worldcon, Interaction in Glasgow. I had a whale of a time, met many people who I had previously known only online, shared a room with Alaskan writer
David Marusek, spoke on several panels, attended many more. The two best pictures of me were taken at a panel with Harry Turtledove, by Elizabeth Patrick, and just hanging around, by Anna Feruglio Dal Dan.
For our summer in Northern Ireland, the kids were able to use a trampoline:
At the end of the month, back at work, I went to an exceptionally
fun conference in Macedonia, afterwards meeting with the famous
Baba Tahir Emini of the Bektashi sect (who sadly died a few months later).
Books I read in August 2005:
Non-fiction 6 (YTD 29)Getting Things Done: How To Achieve Stress-Free Productivity, by David AllenA Very British Genre, by Paul KincaidThe Last Journey of William Huskisson, by Simon GarfieldPeace Without Politics? Ten Years of International State-Bulding in Bosnia, International Peacekeeping vol 12, no 3, Autumn 2005; ed. David ChandlerKnowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination, ed. Peter M. HaasThe Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and West, by Tom ReissNon-genre 1 (YTD 7)The Black Tor, by George Manville Fennsf 9 (YTD 51)Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. RowlingThe Prize in the Game, by Jo WaltonNineteen Eighty-Four, by George OrwellThe World Inside, by Robert SilverbergImperial Earth, by Arthur C. ClarkeCity, by Clifford D. SimakCultural Breaks, by Brian AldissA Mirror for Observers, by Edgar PangbornKing of Morning, Queen of Day, by Ian McDonaldcomics 1 (YTD 6)Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, by Daniel Clowes4,900 pages (YTD 30,900)
2/17 (YTD 23/94) by women
None by PoC
The two books from this month that have lingered with me are Ian McDonald's
King of Morning, Queen of Day, which
you can get here, and the seminal international relations book which I still swear by,
Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination, which
you can get here. I was disappointed by Daniel Clowes'
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, but
you can get it here if you want.
