Well, I finished the fascinating and highly recommended The Life Of Pi on Saturday and started reading another fascinating book called The Secret House. It's by David Bodanis who also wrote E=MC2: A Biography... It's a very neat and often humourous look at all of the various science that occurs at often microscopic levels in and around the average house on a normal day.

Just the descriptions of what is in margarine is enough to make me never want to eat it again (not to mention the fact that I already HATE margarine). There's an entire portion devoted to the science behind why chips are crispy and the reasons that the bags are hard to open and the chips never fit in your mouth. It's filled with reams of these little tid-bits that make a lot of sense once you read them but you just never think about them in your daily life.

The section I'm on now is devoted to that most beloved of all household objects (at least in my mind):

The microwave.

Go read it if you want a fun and rather easy to read book about stuff around the house.