Reading update

I've been listening to a lot of books on my MP3 during gardening season. I just finished the Frankenstein series by Dean Koontz. What a racket. He lifts some lines directly from the previous books into the later ones stretching what could have been one book into many. I guess he's not the only one that does it. By mistake, I read #5 before #4 but didn't even notice until I started 4.
That said, I listened to them all and enjoyed them as simple entertainment. He reads like a screen play... all action and dialog. Some humor and strong female characters. And lots of blood and guts.
I'm now listening to Dave Eggers The Circle. Didn't get great reviews especially from tech savvy folks. As one who worries about too much screen time in my life and too many demands by strangers for personal information, I found it interesting and a bit scary.
I read Flight Behavior by Kingsolver, which of course was good. Focuses on human relationships with nature and with each other. It also brings science and religion within shouting distance which is always fascinating.
Just finished Memoir of the Sunday Brunch by Julia Pandl about a restaurant in Milwaukee. Some interesting insights between moments of overwrought self-deprecating wit. It reads more like a series of memoir exercises tied together into a book. It was an Advanced Reading Copy so many there was more editing to be done.
Trying to get back into Freedom by Franzen which I've started numerous times. The section I'm in now is narrated as an autobiography by one of the characters. A nice contrast to the third person point of view in the beginning.
I have American Boy - Larry Watson - as my go-to-sleep novel which means I read 1/2 page at a time before nodding off so it's slow going.