What's In Your Beach Bag? Yet Another Sequel, Misc. Edition

Before I get to my final round of slightly more esoteric beach reads, I've got to address a recent Twitter comment. Someone sent me a tweet along the lines of, "Sigh... I long for the days when your summer reading suggestions weren't about cross-promotion." Oh. Really. My initial response was to tweet back, "Sigh... and go fuck yourself with a very sharp, cross-promotional stick," but I've been trying to conduct myself in a more professional, less profane (possibly less psychotic) manner. Als...