The Windup Girl

 This book won the Nebula 2010 award.

In the second year of COVID, it has been a good read to see how things can be in a few years if we are not awake enough.

The book tells the story of a corporation manager in Thailand, a "yellow card" who is a chinese refugee, a White Shirt(environment ministry police), ex tai-boxing champion who is the White Shirt's captain and a windup girl who is a new people(genetically improved human) used as sexual attraction in Bangkok.

The world by then has collapsed ecologically and plagues and virus have brought the world wars, famines and the domination of the Calory companies who control the plague resistant plants who feed the world, except in Thailand that closed it's borders and developed an internal program to feed their people successfully.

As always, political corruption leads to problems and the book is well written and you can see different points of view to understand the situation.

The Wheel of Time: The shadow rising

 Fourth book of The Wheel of Time, more action, adventures, new skills and the main characters gaining knowledge about themselves.

Rand, Moraine, Egwene and Mat go to the Three Fold Land, the aiel's homeland to check the prophecy and know if Rand is He Who comes with the dawn.

Nyeaeve and Elayne go to Tanchico trying to find the Black Ajah.

Perryn, Faile and Loial return to Two Rivers to try to save people there from the White Cloacks.

Min arrives to the White Tower and sees one of her visions which will finish with a turmoil there.

It's been a good read in the beach this first holidays' week, I haven't bring the next book here, so I'll have to wait till october to start the fifth...

After a week with no bike riding... I tried this morning the Romanyà road, but I'm not fit enough, I know in the afternoons I have more power, but it was cloudy so I tried today, I'll try again this week.

To say nothing of the dog

Second book of the historian time travelers, I liked Doomsday Book so I read the second.

A time travel to the victorian age, looking for the Bishop bird stump... and the rescue of a cat, which are stinguished by the time the time travelers in this story lived.

Well, the bird stump is found and love is in the air.

I'll read the next two books.