{"id":237,"date":"2009-07-29T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-07-30T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T06:12:04","slug":"summer-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER STYLES"},"content":{"rendered":"

With changing appetizers available from the Produce Lady, summer eases into August. Little carrots, sugar snap peas, and native strawberries have passed, but green beans and broccoli florets dipped in cabbage slaw are a new favorite, grape tomatoes are still good but only \u2019til the sweet little orange jewels ripen on the porch, and wild blueberries are with us again. Of course, it\u2019s a little tricky figuring out how to make blueberries be finger food, but maybe if they are in the cabbage slaw dip, they’ll stick to the dipped.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been looking for the next best summer read, and so far results are only so-so. Karen Joy Fowler\u2019s Wit\u2019s End<\/strong> is okay, but slow. I think I was looking for the philosophical haunts of Rebecca Goldstein<\/strong> and ended up with the excess daily-Craig Johnson\u2019s Kindness Goes Unpunished ness of an Ann Beattie<\/strong> short fiction I read some time ago in the NY\u2019er<\/strong>. Craig Johnson’s Kindness Goes Unpunished<\/strong> with Sheriff Walt Longmire was a worthy diversion. A reviewer called either Sheriff Longmire or the series \u201cgood-natured,\u201d which is true but not sufficient. It is also about long-term friendship, rare, important, and apparently difficult to capture; about Wyoming, as with C.J. Box\u2019s <\/strong>Joe Pickett also, always a plus; and about father\/adult daughter adventures. Okay, I\u2019m of an age.<\/p>\n

I went back to Wit\u2019s End<\/strong> for about thirty more pages, then skipped to Sean Chercover\u2019s Big City Bad Blood<\/strong>, but found its story focus on the Outfit (Chicago\u2019s name for the Mafia and maybe the Mob, too, though I don\u2019t remember it from the seven years I lived nearby, one year in a house owned by Mob nephews) too limited and his characters not interesting enough, though the P. I. was a reader. So I put it down and went immediately to another new series. This one is by Cara Black<\/strong> and features Aimee LeDuc Investigation and contemporary Paris. I\u2019m reading Murder in the Sentier<\/strong> which, so far, centers on Aimee LeDuc\u2019s search for her mother who left Aimee at age eight and her father and who may or may not have been part of a 70\u2019s radical, revolutionary gang. So far, so very good. I especially like learning, in daily detail, about parts of Paris. I\u2019ll get back to Wit\u2019s End, <\/strong>just not today.<\/p>\n

With my summer emphasis on new series, I may be trying to replicate the ongoing, annual pleasure of Julia Spencer-Fleming\u2019s<\/strong> series featuring Chief Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson in upstate New York.\u00a0 Her latest and maybe most worthy paperback in the seriesa is All Mortal Flesh<\/strong>.\u00a0 Or maybe I\u2019m just trying to be sure Roseledge Books Regulars keep coming back.<\/p>\n

\"Fig.<\/a>

Fig. #59. This summer ('09), Roseledge Books readeristas should probably bring warm socks, a muffler or turtleneck, a second pair of shoes, and a rain poncho or lawn and leaf baggy to make sure a perfect book and a perfect chair result in a perfect afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n

LIST ALERT<\/strong>: Here comes another list of Items Ordered<\/strong>.\u00a0 I inserted it in this post because I\u2019m not sure where else to put it with the blue \u201corder me\u201d covering. Skip it if you are not a list person and note on the webcam that it is foggy, sometimes wet, and two-shirt weather yet again.<\/p>\n

Hubka, Thomas.\u00a0 Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Nesbo, Jo.\u00a0 The Redbreast: A Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Heinrich, Bernd.\u00a0 The Snoring Bird
\n<\/a>
\nHanff, Helene.\u00a0 Q’s Legacy<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Johnson, Craig.\u00a0 The Cold Dish<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Johnson, Craig.\u00a0 Death Without Company<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Fowler, Christopher.\u00a0 White Corridor: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery (Peculiar Crimes Unit Mysteries)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Reich, Christopher.\u00a0 Numbered Account<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Reich, Christopher.\u00a0 The First Billion<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Reich, Christopher.\u00a0 The Devil’s Banker<\/a>\"\"
\nReich, Christopher.\u00a0 The Runner<\/a>\"\"
\nMowat, Farley.\u00a0 Bay of Spirits: A Love Story<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Johnston, Wayne.\u00a0 The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Coulter, Catherine.\u00a0 TailSpin<\/a>\"\"
\nCoulter, Catherine.\u00a0 Double Jeopardy (FBI Series)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Toll, Ian.\u00a0 Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Menzies, Gavin.\u00a0 1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Smith, Martin Cruz.\u00a0 Havana Bay: A Novel <\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Silva, Dankiel.\u00a0 Moscow Rules (Gabriel Allon)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Berenson, Alex.\u00a0 The Ghost War<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Berenson, Alex. \u00a0 The Faithful Spy: A Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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