Bookworm: Sharp characters, humor in ‘Better Luck’ ‘Work-from-Home Hacks’ from Aja Frost Terri Schlichenmeyer $28.99, $35.99 Canada; 274 pages It’s always a roll of the dice. You meet someone, hit it off, hang out sometime, and it’s a win or a loose. You either continue and see how it goes, or you can ask for more cards or put your chips elsewhere. No matter who you are, relationships are a gamble but in the new novel “Better Luck Next Time” by Julia Claiborne Johnson, you learn to deal. At well over 80 years old, Dr. Howard Stovall Bennett III doesn’t get many visitors anymore. That doesn’t surprise him; he never married or had any children.