Two books down in the last week (and fortunately both from the list. Pascale Le Draoulec's American Pie is part travel journal, part discussion of food, part cookbook and is quite good. I'd had it recommended a year and a half ago and finally got around to reading it. I've since bought two copies as Christmas presents, and even tried the Lemon Pecan Pie recipe out of it for Thanksgiving.

Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool is a novel with really quirky interesting characters set in a not as interesting town in upstate New York. Worth a read.
posted by Kristin Buxton at 3:53 PM