Trips that involve flying usually cause me to read a lot, especially now that we have to get to the airport so early.

On the way to LA I read Why Is Sex Fun? by Jared Diamond. Definitely not as deep a topic for him as Guns, Germs and Steel was, but it was fun and informative. For example, did you realize that men can be stimulated to lactate under certain circumstances? Amazingly, I didn't seem to get any weird looks at the airport based on people seeing the title.

While in LA I read Haruki Murakami's book of short stories The Elephant Vanishes. As always, short stories are a bit harder for me to read than novels, but I did enjoy them.

On the way home I read The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein. It's a fantasy-ish novel with the French surrealists as its characters. Starting out it reminded me of The Hot Jazz Trio by William Kotzwinkle, but I liked Goldstein's book better.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 2:07 PM