I finally finished Freedom (Jonathan Franzen) and it was consistently good all the way to the end. The end wasn't completely satisfying, but that's the way life is, isn't it?

Also, I started reading a book by Marti Lembach, The Man From Saigon, which I missed when it first came out. It's a first person narration of the Vietnam war by one of the few female reporters there. INTERESTING.

Jonathan Franzen just produced a new book, Freedom, which I love so far (about the first three or four chapters). His last one, The Corrections (admittedly some time back), was the perfect portrait of American midwestern life in the nineties. Read that one first if you get put way down on the hold list for Freedom.