Reading on the Road

So far:

Oprah: A Biography by Kitty Kelley (fascinating; the bloom is somewhat off the rose)
Passages by Justin Cronin (by far the best thing I've read for a very long time)
Warning Signs by Stephen White (another in the series, a little light on the law, however)

I also reread I'll Never Be French by Mark Greenside, in anticipation of our stay at his house. A keeper. And while here, I am taking advantage of his extensive library, and have already read French Toast by Harriet Welty Rochefort (cute, a lightweight Polly Platt), and At Home In France by Ann Barry, a real classic well written, about the Lot, a place we visited many times. Also a keeper. A Place in Normandy by Nicolas Kilmer was beautifully written, bur frustrating -- a week's rainy visit to the family's manoir in Normandy, ostensibly to decide whether to take it on as a life's project, or let it sink into ruin; hint: no decisions made. Only for the devoted.

There were a couple of others not worth reading, the worst of which was Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, where I could have cheerfully dispatched our protagonist after the first three chapters, kept on for about six, and gave up.