I hear you have to travel alot, may I reccomend books on cd? We check them out from our library and listening to them has changed driving around whether it be for ten minutes or six hours we look forward to the story to come. I have especially enjoyed the Bartimaeus trilogy,if you need a good one to start with.S ome books read out loud are better then others, and this is one of them!
No idea if this will be of help to you or not, but hopefully it will.
Here's a link to a page about the book I was talking about if you like knowing about something before you delve in-personally I like a surprise.
http://bartimaeus.wikia.com/wiki/Bartimaeus