Hot reads.Whether your destination is the shore or the desert (or, for that matter, your parents' house), take along a few of these titles. We've included some to keep you entertained on the way, some to keep your brain engaged while tanning, and some to be savored during the quiet times. And, of course, if you're sharing a place with friends, a hurled book is "always a fine way to make your point. Enjoy! POOLSIDE Books to be savored and discussed alfresco The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby Tom Dolby (born January 17, 1975) is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. He is the author of the best-selling novel The Trouble Boy (2004). His second novel, set at a Massachusetts boarding school, is titled The Sixth Form (2008). (Kensington, $23) It's glitter, gutter, and everything in between when 22-year-old Toby's dreams begin to come true in Manhattan. A celebration of ego, excess, and the movie business in general. Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger (HarperPerennial, $13.95) Can a high school love be rekindled after 20 years? Musical-theater geek A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The origin of the term dates back to the late 1800s. Travis intends to find out when be tracks down the jock he left behind after graduation. She's the Girl by Susan M. Brooks (Small Dogs, $14.95) Natalie sets out on the road to find her high school boyfriend but finds the detour of her life. Hello, Trina! An Intimate Ghost by Ellen Hart (St. Martin's/ Minotaur, $24.95) Lesbian restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. Jane Lawless and sidekick Cordelia Thorn are back, this time investigating what went wrong when the wedding Jane caters goes inexplicably psychedelic and the groom dives into an empty pool. One Foot in Love by Bil Wright (Touchstone, $12) The newly widowed Rowtina is in shock until the Leave Him and Live Sisterhood sisterhood: see monasticism. shows her how to begin living again. New from the out author of Sunday You Learn How to Box. Grab Bag by Derek McCormack (Akashic Books, $14.95) The first U.S. outing for the sexy, edgy Canadian novelist, steered your way by the gratifyingly grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. dark-souled Dennis Cooper. Passion Marks by Lee Hayes (Strebor, $13) An outwardly enviable life hides violence in this tale of a has-it-all African-American man battered by his perfect CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. lover. BEDSIDE Books that require your undivided attention The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith (W.W. Norton, $10) Originally published in 1952, the first and only out-in-the-open lesbian yarn by the lesbian author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and a list of other suspenseful-creepy titles. In Salt two women shed their lives and their men and hit the road together. Thelma, Louise, taste their dust. Recommended as a double read with: Spring Fire by Vin Packer (Cleis, $12.95) Classic '50s lesbian pulp with a new introduction by the author to put it all in context. Part of the context: Vin Packer is a pen name of Marijane Meaker, who was actually the girlfriend of Patricia Highsmith. The Parts by Keith Ridgway (Thomas Dunne, $24.95) The gay story of a radio producer entranced with a hot young American is just one strand of this engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. novel set in Dublin. Both by Douglas Crase (Pantheon, $25) Nonfiction entry about a 50-year relationship that started with a shared passion for botany and grew to include scientific excursions, pots of inherited money, and the queer New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of of the '50s. The View From Stalin's Head by Aaron Hamburger (Random House, $12.95) A short story collection about being gay, Jewish, and in Prague in the '90s. It's nothing like the Bel Ami version. Half-Life by Aaron Krach (Alyson, $13.95) SoCal anomie anomie, a social condition characterized by instability, the breakdown of social norms, institutional disorganization, and a divorce between socially valid goals and available means for achieving them. and a father's suicide put 18-year-old Adam into free fall. Rescue arrives in the form of a very hunky hun·ky 1 n. pl. hun·kies Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a laborer, from east-central Europe. investigating officer. Father's Day by Philip Galanes (Knopf, $22.95) Phone sex, grief, and the better parts of New England figure into this comic novel of the hunt for romance, or its nearest approximation. AT YOUR SIDE Books to help pass the time on your trip to wherever Gladstone's Games to Go by Jim Gladstone (Quirk, $9.95) Good clean fun between two covers. Out author Gladstone lists scads of word games, coin games, hidden-secret games, pen-and-paper games. Any game can be enhanced by having the loser strip, however. Boy Trouble edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly (Top Shell $8.95) Gay boy comics anthology. A must-have for the cranky crank·y 1 adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est 1. Having a bad disposition; peevish. 2. Having eccentric ways; odd. 3. passenger who refuses to play travel games. Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell "Kiss and Tell" is the seventh episode of the first season of the television series Gilmore Girls. It originally aired on November 16, 2000. Plot After school Rory goes into Doose's Market to see Dean. by Amy Sohn (Melcher Media/Pocket, $40) Totally updated to includde the six season. Trivia quiz included. Heaven. |
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