cover image Count the Ways: The Greatest Love Stories of Our Times

Count the Ways: The Greatest Love Stories of Our Times

Paul Aron. McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, $19.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-07-138174-1

Lovebirds and starstruck voyeurs may be interested in Count the Ways: The Great Love Stories of Our Time. Journalist Paul Aron (Unsolved Mysteries of American History) writes about celebrated (or reviled) couples like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The couples mostly straight, white and extremely well known are divided into categories like ""Actors and Actresses"" and ""Royals and Rulers."" Aron briefly summarizes each relationship, outlining how the couple met and following the trajectory whether tragic, sordid or heartwarming of each romance. (Feb.)