Brief announcement, and anniversary
December 5, 2002 (2:17 AM) ( link )

Work on my main page, now renamed Legal Ramblings, has consumed most of my web-site time recently. However, that's not to say I've been neglecting things here--except on the reviewing front.

That being said, the following reviews are forthcoming (I swear):

1. Tim Powers's Anubis Gates
2. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's Dragon Wing
3. ---'s Elven Star
4. Thomas Disch's The Genocides
5. Christopher Priest's Inverted World
6. Terry Pratchett's Mort
7. Michael Marshall Smith's Only Forward

All read in the last month, amazing. Since I know I've read them, I might as well celebrate another month running this book reviews site. In the last month, I've read 7 books (for a total of 85 books read since I started), and will post 7 reviews (for a total of 114). I'm going to stop keeping site visit statistics since I've installed a Bravenet.com counter at the bottom of the page--this will automatically keep track of visitors for me, and if you click on the link you yourself can see how seldom visited this space is.

Also of worth is another Top 5, Bottom 5 accessed book reviews. I woefully neglected to get the stats from the first half of the month, but here are the Top 5 and Bottom 5 for Nov. 15 - Dec. 1:

Top 5 Requested Book Reviews (numbers = # transmitted)

1. Stanislaw Lem's Solaris [110] (perhaps because of the movie)
2. Thomas Harris's Red Dragon [98] (ditto)
3. Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's [87]
4. James Dickey's Deliverance [82]
5. Jostien Gaarder's Sophie's World [74]

1. Lois McMaster Bujold's Barrayar [1]
2. Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor [2]
3. Connie Willis's Bellwether [4]
4. Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake [4]
5. David Eddings's Magician's Gambit [4]