Seventeen books ago, she proved she had what she needed.
"It's not coincidental that I quit writing about the F.B.I. about three books ago," she said in an interview.
As long as it works for the reader, it doesn't have to matter that I occasionally find myself tearing my hair hunting for a reference I'm sure I made, possibly two books ago, and now can't turn up.
The Guermantes, Verdurins, Swann, Saint-Loup, Albertine, Cottard, Gilberte – they're all still around being variously snooty, predatory, bitchy, boring, unfaithful and as real as they were three books ago.
Nine red-hot books ago, Lee Child concocted the rough, tough Superman of the crime-busting genre, as smart and charismatic as he is unbeatable.
Even more ominous was a feature that appeared on AOL a couple of weeks ago called "Ten Books to Read Before You Die".
When Weiner was fleshing out the "Mad Men" universe years ago, two books, which he read in the course of a single week, were particularly instructive: "The Feminine Mystique" by Friedan and "Sex and the Single Girl" by Helen Gurley Brown.
Two books that vanished not long ago: an illustrated sex education manual, and a copy of "Like Water for Chocolate," the Mexican writer Laura Esquivel's novel about food and love in a traditional Mexican family.
Cramer isn't a halfway kind of guy; he wrote a book four years ago called "Confessions of a Street Addict".
Bishop, who is in his fifties, was booked four months ago on charges relating to him allegedly giving a 16-year-old girl weed and then making unwanted sexual advances toward her.
