I just finished two more books, both off topic and both interesting.
- Hominids by Robert J. Sawyer. A SF novel about a bridge between our world and a parallel world where Neanderthals are the dominant species and H. Sapiens is extinct. Very interesting, well written, winner of several SF awards.
- The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg. How the Bush family drama led to the US invasion of Iraq and the horrendous botch-up of the occupation. Well researched, it manages to avoid most of the hokey curbside psychologizing you'd expect in a book like this.