Books on Pawleys island hammock that can be read in small chunks have particular appeal. Fans of the splendid writer Grace Paley will enjoy Just As I Thought, a collection of articles and essays. Daughters of Kings: Growing Up as a Jewish Woman in America edited by Leslie Brody (Fromm) is a collection of personal essays by a diverse group of 13 Jewish and non-Jewish women who met while fellows at Radcliffe. For those who never like to be too far away from family on vacation, two loving and funny accounts are Family Man by Calvin Trillin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), about life with his wife and two daughters; and I Love Gootie: My Grandmother's Story by Max Apple (Warner), the winning tale of an immigrant bubbe. Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (Doubleday) is an inspiring story of the connection between a sportswriter and his college professor in his last months of life.