Books I've been burning through

Never much of a reader, but when it's right...it's right.

Two things:
1. I love suspense. But I also love trying to pronounce fun Yiddish words. And I feel like I'm attracting...let's call them "jewish moments" such as, a) I read the word kugel and two seconds later the girl walking home next to me is inviting her friend over for kugel and bagels with cream cheese and lox (there are a ton of jews in nyc, but I still don't hear "kugel" all that often); and b) Walking to the bank one afternoon an Orthodox Jewish boy of about 10 asks me if I'm Jewish, I say "no," go to the bank and walk back to work. But on my way the same boy asks me again, "Excuse M'am, are you jewish?" I say "No," puzzled that the kid didn't remember me from 2 minutes ago. Then I hear him say quietly, "...still not jewish..." Pretty funny, kid.

2. Fraction of a Whole has the best review it could have gotten printed right on it's cover: "Rioutously funny...deserves a place next to A Confederacy of Dunces"– one of my favorite books ever.