Finished "The Confession" by John Grisham and will start reading "Mennonite in a Little Black Dress". Hopefully I'll have the time to finish Freedom too.
(The Painted Bird is a controversial 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński which describes the world as seen by a young boy, "considered a Gypsy or Jewish stray," who wanders about small towns scattered around Central or Eastern Europe (presumably Poland) during World War II.)