HOT! HOT! Too hot to move, but just right to settle in with a wanted book waiting to be read, with the fan on medium between open doors. Fortunately, Roseledge Books meets all of those requirements. I chose Ian Rankin’s Exit Music and am remembering how much I like Rebus. I’ve ordered a batch more for RB on the off chance another too-hot day comes and you and I will need a good read. It sure beats grumping at the world.
But a sea breeze just kicked in and now is wafting through the window to my right as I sit at my computer. So it is I was reading and found the Vanishing New York blog guy’s enlightened search for the diner in Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks”. Reference librarian and search lover that I am, I tried to think of any other “avenues” he might have checked but couldn’t think of any, didn’t know many that he tried, and had a very good time overall. So being nearly finished with Exit Music, I sort of darted over to the shelves and nabbed David Grann’s Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession. I’m sure this is a search book, but I’m not sure if the search is for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, or Percy Fawcett’s search for it or both, but I love to travel with those who try to find out. Hello, David Grann.
An aside: Obsession usually turns me off (Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine and John Casey’s Spartina come to mind) but when a search to find out is on, I think of it as focus.
Fig. #87. Think sea breeze and room for your dinghy at the public landing. Just a note: the port-a-pot up the hill is not intended for boaters, my friends who live close-by tell me.
Summer starts now, say those who count on tourists, and all the signs suggest it will be a good one. Strawberries came so early they’re almost done, raspberries are here and first blueberries are being raked. Good weather will do that. Friends have been stopping by, one with a RB t-shirt from the henley days. I’m still waiting for a RB t-shirt wearer to be accosted by another RB t-shirt wearer and have each end up with a good book to think about and a plan to return to RB. Before t-shirts, one boating group came with my business card/bookmark given to them by another boating group in the Caribbean. That was fun and so will it be to see you.
Another aside: to capture the sea breeze from afar, check the webcam, refresh it four or five times, and watch the cut-leaf maple wave. (I just tried this and the blueberry bush might be a surer mover.)