Zappa book and Paul and Palestinian Judaism both sound fascinating, and would counteract each other nicely if read in succession. I just finished Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. Gosh, I thought I knew this story. A black student of mine caught me reading it and said, "I thought only black people cared about the Civil Rights movement." A reasonable conclusion, but I assured her that caring whites marched along with King and company. Not enough of them, perhaps...