Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 6 March 2005
Fun long day celebrating Jerry's fifth birthday, which I will miss for real later this week. Got up early (discipline), walked the dog and then did 45 minutes on the treadmill (2 days in a row) watching "Pride and Prejudice" miniseries on DVD off my Mac. Then to 8am mass with the two oldest, then housecleaning. Then Tracy and son Jordan showed up and Jerry and I and Kev headed out to FantasyLand in Seekonk for his small b-day party, where we were joined by another boy from his pre-K class. It was a nice, relaxed time, with Tracy helping out kindly throughout. She's a lovely lady originally from Jamaica who works at Jerry's pre-school, so it was great to have another adult around to pass the time. Tonight some more b-day-like celebrations as we burn down our winter fire wood.
My Jerry-b-day present is PNM's tenth month on the Foreign Affairs Best Seller list. In the year since FA began its BSL, PNM has appeared the greatest number of months (10), while the two next-most frequent are Pete Petersen's book and the volume by Anonymous at 8 each. Dropped a few slots in February. Could be the last time on. But I'm hoping to stay on through April, because the paperback comes out in May. But two more months might be a big stretch.
Here's the complete list (find it online at www.foreignaffairs.org/book/bestsellers:
Foreign Affairs Best Seller List
The top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs. Rankings are based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and Barnes & Noble.com.
POSTED MARCH 2, 2005
1) Collapse by Jared Diamond (Viking), # 1 last month
2) China, Inc. by Ted C. Fishman (Scribner), new
3) The Case for Democracy by Natan Sharansky (PublicAffairs), #2
4) Running on Empty by Peter G. Peterson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), #13
5) 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Norton), #4
6) The United States of Europe by T. R. Reid (Penguin Press), #3
7) Imperial Hubris by Anonymous (Brassey's), #5
8) America's Secret War by George Friedman (Doubleday), #6
9) The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin (Tarcher), #12
10) Chain of Command by Seymour M. Hersh (HarperCollins), #10
11) The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth M. Pollack (Random House), #8
12) The Pentagon's New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett (Putnam), #9
13) Our Oldest Enemy by John J. Miller and Mark Molesky (Doubleday), #7
14) Tower of Babble by Dore Gold (Crown Forum), #11
15) Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe (Random House), new
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