11. Never Sniff a Gift Fish, by Patrick F. McManus

This is a very funny collection of McManus's columns from Field & Stream and Outdoor Life.

12. Micro, by Michael Crichton and Douglas Preston

A group of grad students from Harvard visit a start-up in Hawaii. Meanwhile, someone is willing to kill to protect the start-up's secrets.

This book was entertaining enough, but there was a plot hole big enough to drive a tank through -- everything centers around a machine that can shrink or grow anything, organic or inorganic. The question is, what happens to all the extra mass when something is shrunk (or when something originally small is turned into a large object, where does all the extra mass come from)? Michael Crichton was (mostly) a good writer of science fiction, and Douglas Preston is a good writer of both fiction and nonfiction, but having Preston finish Crichton's novel posthumously was a mistake. Two great writers did not equal a great novel in this case.

"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland