( 2.3 Books/Month Average)
1. The Handmaid’s Tale
2. Something Wicked This Way Comes
3. Sandman: The Wake
4. Chaos & Cyberculture
5. Over Sea, Under Stone
6. The Ascent of Wonder
7. The Dark is Rising
8. Greenwitch
9. The Grey King
10. Love for a Lifetime
11. Silver on the Tree
12. The Book of Three
13. The Black Cauldron
14. The Castle of Llyr
15. Taran Wanderer
16. Books of Magic
17. The High King
18. Signal to Noise
19. The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain
20. Sandman Midnight Theatre
21. Death: The Time of Your Life
22. Black Orchid
23. The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish
24. On Cats and Dogs
25. Dandelion Wine
26. Neverwhere
27. Don’t Panic
28. Permutation City
Books I Read in 1997
Wedding
Cathy and I had our public wedding in Crown Point, Indiana.
Busy
Monday: She got up. Went to work. Observed mice in cages. Tabulated results. Stayed later than planned.
Tuesday: Listened to sister on the phone. Thumbed through magazine.
Wednesday: Nothing on TV. Looked at window. Rain.
Thursday: Watched the show about the hospital. Watched the show after that.
Friday: Gin and tonic. Clove cigarette over crossword puzzle. Thought about Montana. Another gin and tonic.
Saturday: The weekend lapped at her bedside, hungry and full of time.
Sunday: Considered going to church. Didn’t.
Monday.
Books I Read in 1996
( 4.7 Books/Month Average)
1. Understanding Comics
2. Dinotopia
3. The New Hugo Winners
4. Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
5. Sandman: The Doll’s House
6. The Big Time
7. Sandman: Dream Country
8. Sandman: Season of Mists
9. Sandman: Fables & Reflections
10. Faust Part I
11. Sandman: A Game of You
12. Death: The High Cost of Living
13. Sandman: Brief Lives
14. One
15. Sandman: World’s End
16. Crazy in Alabama
17. The Book of Answers
18. The Last Unicorn
19. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
20. Violent Cases
21. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
22. Vurt
23. The Once and Future King
24. The Book of Merlyn
25. Pollen
26. The Artificial Kid
27. Schismatrix
28. Crystal Express
29. Naked Lunch
30. Generation of Swine
31. Islands in the Net
32. Sandman: The Kindly Ones
33. Globalhead
34. Heavy Weather
35. The Difference Engine
36. Hamlet
37. Han Solo at Star’s End
38. The Great Shark Hunt
39. Han Solo’s Revenge
40. Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
41. Finding the Love of Your Life
42. A New Hope
43. The Empire Strikes Back
44. Songs of the Doomed
45. Couplehood
46. Shadows of the Empire
47. Automated Alice
48. Cinderella (Wegman)
49. Return of the Jedi
50. Holy Fire
51. The Hacker Crackdown
52. Idoru
53. The Master’s Gambit
54. The Working Woman’s Wedding Planner
55. Before the Invid Storm
56. How to Draw a Radish
Secret Marriage
Cathy and I are married in secret in Delmar, New York.
Delmar
I move across the country to Delmar, New York.
I start working as a graphic artist and multimedia developer at Light & Power Productions in Schenectady, New York.
Proposition
I fly out to Delmar, New York to propose to Cathy. She says “Yes!”
A Reunion and a Wedding
I drive to Ohio for my 5-year high school reunion. It is pretty lame. I then go to Ryan and Laura’s wedding in Indiana. I drive all the way back to Albuquerque.
I move into an apartment on Louisiana, across the street from where I work.
Peyton
My niece Peyton is born on the 7th.
I start work as a freelance artist at S.M. Stoller. I help design an educational CD-ROM.
Albuquerque
I quit High Ground Digital and move out to Albuquerque, New Mexico in anticipation of Cathy moving there in the near future.
I stay with a college friend, Edie Lewis and her mom in their townhouse near Candelaria and Tramway.