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<\/a>Lobster boats, sail boats, and Roseledge Books as harbor backdrop. Perfect.<\/p><\/div>\n
Scott brought the latest box of new books from the post office (RB is too close for home delivery).\u00a0 It held two recommended, lesser-known mystery series for Roseledge Books to start carrying.\u00a0 You may recall my marketing ploy of getting you hooked on a mystery series not often carried by other bookstores, thus luring you to return each summer for the series’ latest installment.\u00a0 Mixed results so far.\u00a0 Two Roseledge Books Regulars couldn’t wait and read the whole series in the winter.\u00a0 One other admitted to reading the latest installment in hard cover, instead of waiting for the paperback which is all RB carries.\u00a0 My find for this summer was Elly Griffiths’ series<\/strong> set on the marshy coast (the fen country?) of England and featuring forensic archaeologist and academic, Ruth Galloway<\/strong>. These latest possibilities look equally promising for next year.<\/p>\n The first <\/strong>possibility is Julia Keller’s A Killing in the Hills,<\/strong> a murder mystery set in West Virginia (from which she comes) and recommended by Anna Quindlan<\/a> as one among several good books she’s reading which were written by women journalists.\u00a0 I also like that she writes about a place she knows well because I often read books for their sense of place.\u00a0 The second possibility is Australian Peter Temple’s Bad Debts<\/strong>, which introduces Jack Irish, “a some-time lawyer, a part-time debt collector, and occasional private eye” ( also interested in turf, football, and cabinet making, says a readerly friend who recommended him).\u00a0 I haven’t found an Australian detective as memorable as Arthur Upfield’s Bony (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte series<\/strong>) whom I last read a very long time ago, so I am hopeful.\u00a0 Then last night what did I hear on NPR’s Fresh Air<\/strong> but critic John Power<\/strong>s describing and liking Jack Irish (” he’s smart, funny”), so I am encouraged.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n A bookseller’s task is never done.\u00a0 And isn’t that a good thing.<\/p>\n The last minutes of sunlight and the boats seem to gleam. The day is done.<\/p><\/div>\n The summer is winding down.\u00a0 Fewer boats sailing in, fewer Sea Street walkers, runners, struggling bicyclists or parents carrying wiped-out kids on shoulders, more leaves falling, but that may be due to poplar and\/or maple blight caused by our soggy, foggy summer.\u00a0 The sun-glo (sweet, orange) grape tomatoes are ripening at a perfect pace for one appreciator.\u00a0 Scott just called.\u00a0 He is on his way down (from Wiley’s Corner) because he needs one-dollar-bills for his garage sale tomorrow.\u00a0 This may be my only sale of the day.<\/p>\n Time to settle in with a 20th anniversary edition of Peter Lovesey’s The Last Detective. the First Inspector Peter Diamond Book<\/strong>.\u00a0 I had forgotten how much I liked him.\u00a0 The Jane Austen in Bath tirade alone is worth the price of\u00a0 the book.\u00a0 The last of my blueberries and wonderful homemade ice cream (a gift; thank you, thank you) are a perfect treat and if hunger for goodies persists, I have at hand a bag of frozen gummi bears.\u00a0 Charlie likens these to frozen lumps of rubber, but what does he know?\u00a0 If they tasted better, I would be tempted to eat more.<\/p>\n As good as these treats are, all would be better if you were here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The heron waded at the edge of sand and water for more than twenty minutes, than delicately stepped in between the pilings of Dave’s wharf and disappeared from sight.\u00a0 (The webcam might have captured the scene about 8 a.m. EDT.)\u00a0 … Continue reading <\/a>