last of the 2004 books, first of 2005

[geekchick]

Finished in December:

• "Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science and Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth", Ben Bova. Liked this one a lot, enough science to keep a geek happy (at least one who didn't already know all of this stuff, like myself), but not so heavy that it becomes inaccessible. brian1789, I suspect you might find it a little interesting, like the sections dealing with SETI. There is mention in one spot of the archnemesis though. ;)
  
• "Practical Demonkeeping", Christopher Moore. I had started this one earlier and put it down to work on crochet projects. I picked it up on Christmas and finished it off. Laugh-out-loud funny, as everything I've read of his has been so far, but I don't rank it as his best (that I've read so far); that would be "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal", far and away.
  
  (Um, I can't be the only one who wonders what the name/value pair appended to a Powells search,pokey=skeptopotamus, actually does, can I?)
  

That's I think 42 books for the year, assuming I didn't mark down a couple (which is likely) and counting things like "1602" as a single entity; either way, under 50 for the year, which is disappointing to me. Unfortunately, books will need to fight with yarn this year for my attention until I manage to get to the point I can enjoy both.

I was going to work on one of the books I mentioned in my last books post, but looking at the shelves, I realized I'm really in the mood to re-read "Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses" by Isabel Allende.