Update ... already.

Vic just called me from the hospital to let me know that she's on Page 40 of "The Bonfire of the Vanities."

"I thought you were going to read 'Vanity Fair' first," I said. "Did the fact that Reese Witherspoon's in the new movie version dissuade you from trying it?"

"I don't know," she said, sounding less groggy than the earlier call. "I just picked up this one. It's slow, though."

"Yeah, I stopped reading it after they talked about the size of that one guy's apartment for a chapter," I said.

"I just got through that," she said.

She'll be finished with it in two days.