Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court. It’s learning, all packaged in a convenient gossip-blog style, and perfection for leftist law students like me.

I love suspense. My two favorite authors are Lee Child and Greg Iles.

Because she writes the MOST terrific biographies ever, I read Mary S. Lovell’s “Sisters” and was totally wowed. So I got hold of and read Jonathan Guinness’s “The House of Mitford” and Anne de Courcy’s “Diana Mosley.” If I had the required skills and backing, I’d make “The House of Mitford” into a mini-series. Now into “The Mitfords” letters between six sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley “Counting My Chickens” by Deborah Devonshire (the dowager Duchess of Devonshire) , and “Decca, The Letters of Jessica Mitford.” I go on reading streaks that show an avidity to learn everything possible re a particular subject. All of us sisters should fervidly enjoy reading about these famous sisters of the 20th century AND we should all grant ourselves the joy of reading everything Mary Lovell has put out. She did Amelia Earhart and Beryl Markham, too!

Note to Julia Reed: You’ll love “Loving Frank.” I’m reading “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” by Walter Isaacson. I’ve always had a thing for Einstein, but, with the letters that have been recently released, Isaacson is showing E warts & all. Sigh. I also just sped through Roger Ebert’s “Great Movies” books — the man certainly loves movies; I wish I could see them as he does.

Right now I am reading Barbaro. I love it because it is about a remarkable horse and because when he asked me if I would like to read it, my nine year old grandson Zach said it made him cry. I always ask what the wee ones are reading for school and for pleasure and this was his pleasure book..funny he loves hockey and art and horses and the new dictionary that his teacher gave him last week. Thanks for all the good “Wish List” books…it is about a mile long now..happy reading

I’m a bit lowbrow - I like fantasy and sci-fi books. Just finished reading part 2 of Kate Elliott’s Crossroads trilogy and really hope she will have part 3 finished soon. Another book I really liked was “The Discovery of France” by Graham Robb who cycled 14,000 miles around France and spent several years researching in libraries to write a very readable account of how modern France evolved from several very distinct cultures - and very recently too. You may like to know that frog-legs-eating started in Paris. I read anything except westerns and romance and have just donated 100s of books to charity because I have run out of room in my apartment.

Pillars of the Earth. Pure page turner entertainment.

I like Nicholas Sparks books( all of them). I think I liked The Wedding the most.

I just finished No Shortcuts To the Top-Climbing the world’s 14 highest peaks by Ed Viesturs. An inspirational and engrossing read.