26.  Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives by Edwin Black.  Especially the chapter about the trolleys is worth reading.

27.  The Kingdom of the Blind, by Louise Penney.  It is another one in a series.  I am not as committed to them as I once was, but it is a nice escape.  The denouement doesn't entirely make sense.  Exactly where did those clients come from?  And what was the deal with that job?  It doesn't really matter, though.

28.  Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, by Dani Shapiro.  She's one of those New Yorky, in-with-the-in-crowd writers.  This is her fifth memoir, it seems like that says something about her. I don't quite trust someone who says unflattering things about her family publicly. There's likely another side.  But I did read it right through.  Some of the ways she describes having an unsettling surprise are on the universal side, and it is an interesting situation. I look forward to the review coming up, which is why I read it.

I like having time to read. None of the above would be highly recommended by me for someone who had less reading time.  

For #28, the reviewer shaped it in to a better book than the way I read it.  This is often the case.  As a former infertility patient, I guess I identified more with the author's mother, whom she badmouthed the entire book.  Probably I'm better off without a sharper than a serpent's tooth offspring.