A couple more books read during the Olympics. One was amusing, one I couldn't even get through. I'll list it so that we remember not to ever pick it up again. Skeptic by Holden Scott. This I can't even give a decent synopsis of the book because it was just boring. Something about biomedicine, murder, hallucinations, toxins, ghosts, a beautiful Chinese CIA agent, the Chinese Revolution......the back calls it a medical thriller. Oh, well.

The other one was Timeline by Michael Crichton. Always a fun read-Jurassic Park, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, ER on TV.

This one requires a fair amount of suspension of disbelief but was fun. The premise is a multinational corporation that is developing the technology to send people to alternate universes that looks like time travel. The result of this travel is found by a group of young archeologists who then are sent to that space to rescue their professor who has been stranded there. I did say you had to suspend disbelief!!!! There are a lot of historical accurate descriptions and explanations for the 1300s.