Recent Reading in Brief

V.S.Naipaul's novel Miguel Street is about Trinidad.
So it was perfect reading while I was there!

I've been meaning to read Coelho's novel for years.
I bought a copy in the airport and read it on the plane from
Miami to Detroit. A nice traveler's  tale for travel reading.

Cahokia Jazz: What would the area around St. Louis (where I grew up)
be like if all post-European-arrival history had been different?
Here's a speculative -- and suispenseful-- fiction about the answere.