Wine and War and Look me in the Eye are both ones I'll look for. Right now the book I'm finishing reading aloud is Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly. The thing is it that's a long book (551 pages), which when I'm reading to myself is no biggie. But try reading aloud. For reading myself, I've been sticking to "fun" murder mysteries and other kinds of light reading. My blind older lady friend I read to has even gotten tired of the Irish and their Troubles, so I'm going to read the last 30 pages myself and just tell her how it ends (I suspect she'd have liked it if I'd have done that a week or so ago). I also looked up one aspect of the book (a historical novel) to find out if it actually happened. She usually isn't big on novels, so I want to let her know about this particular episode in history.