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August 2002 Books I read on my summer vacation: I got my wish.  A vacation to sit around and read books.  While Rich was in a training class in California, I relaxed by the pool (or in the hotel suite) reading, reading, reading.  When I got bored, I'd go find a good place to buy books.  Some of the libraries in Orange County have permanent used books stores in them and I browsed at the ones in Irvine and Laguna Beach (and spent wonderful meditation times by the ocean).  I shopped in Barnes & Noble, Borders, and B. Dalton, too.  Up in L.A., I enjoyed The Bodhi Tree, a metaphysical bookstore, which has a whole used book annex, too.  Two excellent science fiction books brought with from the Schaumburg Library  started me off: The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper  One of my favorite authors with another good book, this one about the future after an apocalypse and how society rebuilds itself -- with help from the past. The Golden Age by John C. Wright This book ought to get all kinds of awards -- set in the extremely far future of humanity, it explores the nature of the mind, memory, reality, and society within a fascinating adventure of one individual.  Be warned, as I was not -- it's the first part of a larger saga, so the story does not come to an end.  Even though I already had a copy of Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, when I saw it at the Boddhi Tree Annex, I knew I had to read it again while I had all the vacation time.  I enjoyed it even more the second time around, plus this edition had an author's postscript, valuable to me as a writer and a fan of this book.  This mystery story set in a monastery in the 14th century is not light reading -- the history, philosophy, and thoughts about religious doctrine make this book incredibly worthwhile.  I also read the fantasy American Gods by Neil Gaiman and the Kinsey Milhone mystery P is for Peril by Sue Grafton.     (c) 2002 Marcia M. Sacks

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