A quite enjoyable trip for fans of this series. (If you haven't read Anita Blake, you probably need to start at the beginning with Guilty Pleasures.) I like that this story involved Edward and has more procedural elements than some of the books in the series, as Anita is on location in Seattle as part of her duties as a U. S. Marshal of the Preternatural division. Ms. Hamilton has definitely matured and improved as a writer over the course of this long series.

Peter Sagal, writer and host of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" news quiz weekend show, goes on an odyssey to investigate the various forms of vice. I enjoyed the ride, but felt Mr. Sagal is a little too disdainful of some of the activities and practices he writes about, to the detriment of understanding and empathy. It's like a less-committed This American Life.

I really loved the illustrations and examples in this book. However, the pages that were mostly text were hard to read. The bright colored text, tiny margins and general lack of whitespace made the large chunks of text hard to read. I'm sure a harder-to-read font could be found, but I don't think the one they chose was a good choice.

Douglas Adams is a legend, and here collected are many things for the fan who feels just how keenly he is missed. A version of his unfinished novel The Salmon of Doubt (which may or may not a be a Dirk Gently novel, see Neil Gaiman's excellent biography, Don't Panic) is only the beginning. Herein is collected much more more, including non-fiction on Mr. Adams' conservationist activities.

Filled with storyboards, pencils, sketches, color guides, the story of the making of Watchmen and much more. A bizarre full-body Rorschach "flasher" singlesuit that never made it to the actual comic and scale sketches of the New York street corner that became almost a character in the story are only a few of the many things to interest the Watchmen fan in this gigantic coffee table book.