eMusic Bookshelf
Rerun Rehab, Pt. 2
Is the Writers Guild of America strike putting a serious damper on your TV time? Here's a novel idea — survive the Hollywood writers strike by ditching TV and listening to audiobooks instead. The books below feature ordinary people who possess extraordinary abilities, remedies for the tumultuous love lives of the staff of Seattle Grace and plenty of drama to keep you entertained well beyond primetime.
Interested in the lighter side of things? Check out Rerun Rehab, Pt. 1.
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It's Called A Breakup Because It's Broken
Paging Dr. Meredith Grey: Your on again/off again relationship with McDreamy is driving Grey's Anatomy fans crazy! It's time to check out It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken, a tough love guide for women who need some help recognizing when it's time to cut loose a failed romance. Because hooking up in the on-call room and going home alone isn't fair to either of you. Seriously.
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Coach
"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!" If this rally cry brings out your Dylan Panther spirit, then you're a true blue Friday Night Lights fan. In the absence of Coach Eric Taylor's smoldering good looks and nuggets of down home wisdom, glean some inspiration from Michael Lewis's memoir about the high school baseball coach who changed his life.
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Skinny Dip
If the slogans "we write the story-a for Eva Longoria" and "Marcia's cross and so are we" make you shudder, it's time to meet the ultimate desperate housewife. In Carl Hiaasen's Skinny Dip, Joey Perrone is left for dead by her good-for-nothing husband. Little does he know that she's alive, pissed off and primed for revenge. Edie Britt would be proud.
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Lolita
Gossip Girl here. Spotted: Blair Waldorf walking up Madison rocking a hot new mp3 player. What's B listening to? Not the hippest band du jour, but the audiobook of Lolita. Looks like someone's getting tips from the original naughty girl...
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The Fortress of Solitude
With Hiro exiled in seventeenth century Japan and Peter stuck in Ireland for most of the second season of Heroes, is it really such a drag that the writing staff is getting some extra time to regroup? In the meantime, if you're looking for some comic book superhero action with consistently brilliant writing, try Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude.
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Anna Karenina
The Walker siblings of Brothers and Sisters are the latest primetime example of the veracity of the first lines of Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." For those who like their romantic tragicomedies a little further up the tragedy spectrum.
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