Is nonfiction okay? Because I wasted my Friday with my nose in "A Pocket Guide to Rocks and Minerals". Found it in the little display thing next to the checkout at TJ Maxx a while back. $5, why not?

With the number of pages in it I was a little disappointed with the number of rocks and minerals covered. A good chunk of the first half covers the formation of rocks and defines hardness, streak, cleavage etc. which any rock dork already knows, and I didn't particularly care about because I bought it mainly for mineral identification. The little blurbs for the minerals it does have were pretty informative though. Though I thought it was stupid that the beginning of the book describes what streak means but then the page about the mineral doesn't say what color streak it has! The pictures are gorgeous though, I guess I'll have to make a point to go to the Museum of Barnstaple sometime in my lifetime to see the samples in person.

My review: Pretty pictures, but going to keep looking for a better book for IDing.