The Summer (Reading Guide) of Other

Tour is over, I’m back, and I’m ready to talk about reading! But not to talk about reading my books because, frankly, I’ve had enough of that to last me until next year. At some point during the tour and all the rounds of media, even the biggest narcissist in the world gets all, “No, please, let's talk about you.” (Caveat - I do need to say thank you times a million to all of you for coming to my events because you guys are the whole point of what I do. You rock, for seven years running!) Anyway, I’ve pledged to spend the summer reading books that aren’t on the front table at the bookstore or filling a top ten position on the NYT list. Times are tough for authors out there, particularly the new ones, and I want to do what I can to help. Through Facebook suggestions, I filled four pages of paper with authors and titles… none of which I had with me when I stopped in the airport bookstore on the way to my first tour stop. Typical. So I bought the book My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan, largely because I wasn’t familiar with it. But as an Emmy award-winning writer for Frasier and with comparisons to P.G. Wodehouse, the author’s credentials were impeccable. I knew it had to be funny. Also, because this is me we’re talking about, the cover was pretty. See? Until I looked up this book, I didn’t know MLS...