Do you ever feel like you're in a reading rut? You've read all the Sue Graftons, Janet Evanovichs, Karen Kingsburys, Clive Cusslers, where's a reader to turn for something different, interesting, thought-provoking? When I start feeling this way, I start looking for translators. The Central-Clemson Branch recently featured a book display entitled "Around the World in Eighty Novels." There are writers writing everywhere; why limit yourself to just one country? If you only select from the New Times Best Seller's List, you are missing, literally, a whole world of great fiction. Some of my favorite titles are from across the border.



Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky has spent a great deal of time on critics and best seller lists. Just the history of how the novel has come to the surface is miraculous. Nemirovsky was a Russian Jewish