I am really really loving Vowell's writing. I'm learning hilarious facts like that Garfield's assassin was a crazy man who couldn't get any at a free-love commune and really really wanted to be the ambassador to France. And even wrote a little song that he chanted on the scaffolding before he was hanged. Great book.

And yeah, sometimes you just need that fluff. Have you read any of the Dresden Files books? It's a nice light urban fantasy series with a mouthy hero. Pretty entertaining.