Books

Fifty Shades of Grey is now the fastest selling paperback of all time. The first novel in the trilogy sold more than 100,000 paperback copies last week alone. That's something the "Harry Potter" books and all of the "Twilight" novels could NOT do...

Have you already started your Christmas Cookie baking, or at least started planning your holiday menu?  Do you or someone you know take celebrating the holidays to a new level? "Taste of Home" magazine is looking for an official Ambassador of the Holidays!

I've already run down the suggested actors to play Christian Grey for the big screen adaptation of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" book trilogy.  But who will play the female lead, Anastasia Steele?  E.L. James (the author) describes Ana's look as "A pale, brown haired girl with blue eyes too big for her face."

Unless you've been hiding in a cave or don't have ears, you've heard about the latest "Must Read" book.  Well, at least for the ladies that is.  After hearing the buzz about this amazing book on Twitter (from a Kirstie Alley Tweet actually) I decided that I had to check it out.

Do you have your summer reading list ready?  If you don't have any of Brian Freeman's books on your list, you need to make a few changes.

Here's a list we went over this morning on the show. Thefrisky.com used March to celebrate "Every Woman Needs" month. There are some pretty great lists there, including "The 22 Books Every Woman Needs to Read." Now with this list, it's the " 17 Things Every Woman Should Know How To Do in the Home...

It may be hard to believe, but Justin Bieber is working on his second book. The 17-year-old pop sensation is ready to publish his “second official photographic book.” Called ‘Justin Bieber: Just Getting Started,’ it is the follow-up to his first tome ‘First Step 2 Forever: My Story.’ The title is expected to hit bookstores in September.

Lil Wayne has inked a deal with Grand Central Publishing to publish a book titled ‘Gone Till November.’ The tome is described as a prison memoir of the rapper’s thoughts that he jotted down while serving his eight-month prison bid at Rikers Island for weapons possession.

I'm finding out one of the crappy things about getting older is learning about the death of people that were part of your childhood.  This week is kind of a bummer with the death of the "Overweight Lover" Heavy D, now I learn the Bil Keane, the man that created the 'Family Circus' has died at the age of 89.

Before leaving the Los Angeles Police Department, Greg Kading made copies of reports and recorded confessions pertaining to the separate murder cases of rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls). Those materials are a big part of Kading’s new self-published book ‘Murder Rap.’ Due October 4, the book includes a claim by a police informant who says he was

Ah, New York City. The sights and smells are like nowhere on earth. Where else can you see the Statue of Liberty and take in the aroma of hot dogs? Or fish? Or, um, sewers? Showcasing the Big Apple in all its olfactory glory is the goal of a new scratch-and-sniff book called ‘New York, Phew York,’ illustrated by artist Tim Probert and inspired by author Amber Jones’ experiences in the city. Read M

You can attend any State Fair and find a plethora of many different foods on a stick, but this comes as a surprise. BOOZE-ON-A-STICK! Although bacon on a stick will always be my #1, but booze on a stick will come in a VERY close second. p...