Monday night I polished off two books. The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod and Weight Training for Dummies by Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg. I'd picked up several MacLeod books over the last couple of years based on friends' recommendations but hadn't gotten around to reading any of them. I liked The Star Fraction. It's a political-cyber-future-thriller sort of thing. I'll have to read the rest of them now.

I normally avoid "for Dummies" books, but after reading a review of Weight Training for Dummies I decided to check it out of the library. It seems very straightforward and not someone's hyped view of exercise. There's a huge section in the middle that has exercises for each part of the body with pictures, descriptions and possible options.

Last night I started Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt.

posted by Kristin Buxton at 2:32 PM