I’m an occasional contributor to the “Best of LA” section of CBS Los Angeles‘ website, and even more occasionally, I get the opportunity to make my contributions book-related. My first feature for the site, in August of last year, was a late-summer-reading roundup featuring books and authors with prominent Southern California connections. I was pleased to be offered the chance to put together another summer-reading guide for 2012–and we got it done much earlier this …