I went to Powell's last night to hear Richard K. Morgan do a reading. I picked up his Broken Angels, even though I still haven't read Altered Carbon.

While I was there I picked up Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, since they had a cheap hardcover copy and I keep hearing good things. I also bought MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country and read most of it on the way home. (Finished it before bed). It's a series of essays by people who did something to get more involved in their community and politics, interspersed with suggestion from MoveOn to make the ideas more general. When I looked the book up later on amazon I was actually surprised to note that it had shot to #2 on their bestseller list, and had a bunch of reader comments from people who obviously hadn't read the book, or hadn't read the book far enough to know that while MoveOn is progressive and so were most of their examples, all of their general ideas for getting involved are applicable no matter where you fall on the political spectrum.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 10:40 AM