Del.icio.us

I have slipped so far behind for various reasons that I couldn't see any value in del.icio.us when I first read the background information. I was trying to go too fast to catch up. It didn't seem to have any relevance for me. However, I thought I'd better go back and have another look and suddenly, I got it. It's not immediately useful but I can think of ways that it could be.

LibraryThing

These are the books I've entered on LibraryThing so far, some of my favourites.

All the Way Home
Bookey Peek
2007

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
Tahir Shah
2006

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller
2003

Heading Uptown: A Nina Fischman Mystery
Marissa Piesman
1994

The Last King of Scotland
Giles Foden
1999

The Master
Colm Toibin
2004

George Saunders
2001

Peking Picnic (Mass Market Paperback)
Ann Bridge
date?

Queen Lucia
Edward Frederic Benson
2006

The Shape of Water (Inspector Maltalbano Mysteries)
Andrea Camilleri
2005

Slow Boat to China
Young
1984


The Yacoubian Building: A Novel
Alaa Al Aswany
2006

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey
Today is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the first ever artifical satellite to be put into orbit around the Earth. Russians marked the event today by erecting a monument of the satellite near Moscow and laying flowers at the grave of Sergei Korolyov, Sputnik's creator.
The anniversary of the Space Race's beginning is marked in the publishing world with the realease of A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey: 1957 - The Space Race Begins by Michael D'Antonio. D'Antonio tells the story of America's reaction to Sputnik and to Sputnik II, launched the following month with a little dog named Laika on board. D'Antonio narrates America's harried attempts to follow quickly on the heals of the Soviets by sending a squirrel monkey into orbit. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist D'Antonio delivers an entertaining historical account full of pictures and the firsthand accounts from ordinary people.