32.  Save Me The Plums, by Ruth Reichl

This book is about the author's years as editor of Gourmet magazine.  It is a quick read, and I enjoyed it. Her descriptions are excellent.

33. The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age, by Nathan Wolfe

I found this in my overflow bookshelf.  It was published in 2011, and I don't know when I picked it up.  I thought it was, of course, timely, and it is more positive overall than one might think.  Well worth reading for those with and without any scientific background or particular interest.  

34.      I just finished reading (from the library) Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, by Tony Horowitz. In the decade before the Civil War, before he became a famous landscape planner, Frederick Law Olmsted was a newspaper correspondent. He traveled through the south and sent articles to the New York Times. At first, he hoped to help the sides better understand each other. Then he became more staunchly opposed to slavery.  Horowitz generally followed the route of the Olmsted brothers 160 years later, in the time just before the 2016 election, and made comparisons between today's national divisions and those of the past. I enjoyed reading this book.  I have another book by the same author in my overflow, unread bookshelf, A Voyage Long and Strange.  Horowitz is married to Geraldine Brooks, who has written some well-received historical fiction.  I have two of her books unread, too.