On the Borders

Yesterday, feeling the need for some more light reading, as well as for a reference for VBA, I wandered over to Borders. The only references they had were a Programmer's Guide for the 2003 version (published 2004), an introduction to VBA (published 2005), and a comprehensive introduction to Access, complete with CD - but there were only two chapters on VBA, both on the CD. I decided to go with the first one; there are probably differences between VBA 2003 and 2010, but I should be able to get reasonably close to what I need - close enough to make the Help files sufficient.

I also, of course, dropped a pretty penny on other stuff. I was just in the mood for light fiction, and most of what I bought were either continuations of series

Omega, Jack McDevitt; War of Honor, David Weber; The Clan Corporate, Charlie Stross; Memories of Ice, Steven Erikson; Blood Bound, Patricia Briggs; First Lord's Fury, Jim Butcher

or books by familiar authors

Shaman's Crossing, Robin Hobb; Opening Atlantis, Harry Turtledove; Axis, Robert Charles Wilson; Trust Me on This, Jennifer Crusie; Flying Finish, Dick Francis

but I also took a flyer on K. N. Jenison's Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, which I'd heard good things about.

I'm glad to see First Lord's Fury in paper, and am still waiting with bated breath for Changes to come out that way. (I like Butcher's work a lot, but he hasn't moved onto my hardcover list yet.) Axis is a sequel to Spin; Wilson is the reigning champion of sensawunda since Greg Bear's decline (although McDevitt is coming up hard on the outside). Turtledove? Well, at least this one's not a doorstop, and his series usually begin better than they end. The rest are pretty much mind candy. (BTW: sunlizzard, thanks for recommending Briggs to me.)