Geeky Book News

I'd like to interrupt the usual sports blather with this news: The PW fall announcements are out! Everyone who isn't a complete book geek (which is probably most of you) can just skip right over this section. Here are some of my favorite titles:

Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir by Doug Crandell
Vanilla Pop: Sweet Sounds from Frankie Avalon to ABBA by Joseph Lanza
Women's Wicked Wisdom by Michelle Lovric
Once Bitten: An Unofficial Guide to the World of Angel by Nikki Stafford
The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft have dismantled the Bill of Rights by Elaine Cassel
What would Sipowicz Do?: Race, Rights and Redemption in NYPD Blue ed. by Glenn Yeffeth
Contrabando: The Life and Times of a Drug Smuggling Texas Cowboy by Don Henry Ford Jr.

In the cool titles but not helping me category:
How to Get Laid: The Gay Man's Essential Guide to Hot Sex by Parker Ray
Cooking to Hook up: The Bachelor's Date Night Cookbook by Ann Marie Michaels and Drew Campbell
Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection by Thomas Waugh.

I take that back. That last one might help me after all.....

Other interesting titles:

Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures: 1001 Things you hate to Love
The Baby Owner's Maintenance Log: A record of your model's first year
The Rebel Housewife Rules by Sherri Caldwell and Vicki Todd.
Heat: An amateur cook in a professional kitchen by Bill Buford
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn
The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade by Victor Malarek


Books I'll probably read (eventually)

Double Homicide by Faye and Jonathan Kellerman
Northern Lights by Nora Roberts
Suspicion of Rage by Barbara Parker (finally! And so new its not even in Amazon yet!)
The Ruins of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson (another one not in Amazon yet.)
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich (although, I have a feeling this might suck...)
Hope and Honor by Sidney Shachnow
Voices from the Front: Letters Home from the Soldiers of Gulf War II by Frank Schaffer
Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Virgin's Lover by Philipa Gregory
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey
Yeah, I said it by Wanda Sykes

And all of that is only from about the first 75 pages or so! Its going to take me forever to get through this magazine and get stuff ordered. (not that I'm complaining a bit!)