Required reading from the week in books.

"High Fidelity" author Nick Hornby returns to mixing music with modern romance with "Juliet, Naked," the story of a young woman's relationship with an aging Bob Dylan-ish singer-songwriter. Hopefully Kris Kristofferson will play him in the movie. You don't get much more grizzled and surly than Kris Kristofferson.

Also in stores this week:
-- Hey, remember when Mackenzie Phillips dropped that little bomb about sleeping with her dad? Well, now you can read it about it in graphic detail in her new autobiography "High on Arrival." You're welcome!
-- In other depressing memoir news, Patrick Swayze's "The Time of My Life" comes less than two weeks after his untimely death. We'll be reading it in honor of Swayze, and for the "Road House" memories.
--"Worst Song, Played on Ugliest Guitar," the latest collection of the highly popular Web comic "Achewood," should cheer you up after reading this week's crop of bleak memoirs.