Notable: Girl talk

Still in a Sex and the City mood after the movie? Here are two guidebooks and a novel about wrangling romance.

Dirty Girls on Top (St. Martin's), by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, is a sequel to The Dirty Girls Social Club, about a posse of Latina friends still trying five years later to figure out their careers and love lives — Carrie and friends, but with cafe con leche.

The Good Girl's Guide to Living in Sin: The New Rules for Moving in With Your Man (Adams Media), by Joselin Linder and Elena Donovan Mauer, offers plenty of practical advice (even if it is printed in pink ink) about what it breezily calls shacking up.

Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman (Grand Central), by Marjorie Hillis, is a charming reprint of a 1936 bestseller by a witty, self-assured Vogue editor whose advice can be surprisingly fresh.

Colette Bancroft, Times book editor