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Thanks to Gwen for the invitation to the blog. I also love chatting about books, and currently work at the library - this, for me, is like spending my day at the dessert table, sampling everything, without gaining weight. A miracle, certainly! I am in the middle of a relatively recent book called "Turing's Delerium" by Edmundo Paz Soldan, said to be an important new Latin American writer (by no less a fellow than Mario Vargas Llosa). The plot has to do with government bureaucrats battling revolutionaries in Bolivia, all of them waging an internal battle to justify their actions, current and historic, to themselves and their loved ones. An international corporation has purchased the power company, and now nobody can afford any lights. This book was translated into English in 2006, so the writer didn't know about the coming financial crash...er, economic downturn, but his sense of the situation is quite prophetic. This is a really good book, but not something I would suggest for relaxation.