oh elvis and pike, how i love thee....(thees? thys? hmmm....)

so. i love elvis cole. and joe pike. i do. i cant help myself.
who are elvis and pike, you might be asking? well, they are partners in the elvis cole detective agency. yes, they are characters from a book. well, not just A book, but a series of crime novels. i thoroughly enjoy them. elvis wears hawaiian shirts and loves jimminy cricket, and has a crazy pinocchio clock, and drinks falstaff beer, and lives in an A-frame house in the hollywood hills....alas, i am getting carried away.
the author of these books, robert crais, has written a few other books not in the elvis cole series, and they are pretty good. (in fact, one of his books, hostage, was made into a movie starring bruce willis. it was actually a pretty decent adaption--fyi, sum and mom, sookie was in it!!).
but, the point of my little love-fest here is that i have been a bad fan. a very bad fan, indeed!!! crais came out with another book almost a YEAR ago! and i had no idea!!! but, now that ive waited so long, it is coming out in paperback on january 23 (ahem, birthday present, ahem!). AND!! a joe pike novel is coming out this february!!! two crais novels within one month!! yeah!!!



ooh, and in other release news: bob saget's "farce of the penguines" (sp?) comes out at the end of the month! it is guarantted to be raunchy and dirty and i so cant wait to buy it! (ahem, another birthday idea, ahem!)


oh, by-the-by, for those of you who werent aware that my birthday was coming up, its on january 21, and i will be turning a quarter of a century. holy crap...