{"id":2841,"date":"2022-11-21T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2022-11-21T16:44:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:44:15","slug":"resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=2841","title":{"rendered":"RESURRECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

RESURRECTION OF MY LAST BLOG POST<\/strong>
\nFor reasons unknown, my last blog post vanished. I mean poof!<\/em> It was gone. \u201cError 403\u201d or \u201cError 404\u201d\u2019was all I got. No trash, no delete, no \u201csysop [Charlie] forgot,\u201d nothing. I figured, like taking away my curly hair, God smote me for the sin of pride because I had fun writing it. Charlie thinks the machines are paying me back for my mistreatment of them. I think it\u2019s the Russians, and I told Charlie not to pay the ransom. So here is my resurrection re-write, sans<\/em> final edit embellishments.<\/p>\n

But first a note to my vanished post\u2019s 8 commenters: you are my heroes. Okay, I failed to include the mysteries of William Kent Krueger. I like him a lot, and with his Cork O\u2019Connor, WKK is to northern MN, as Paul Doiron is to ME, or as C.J. Box is to WY. Maybe most telling, WKK shared a writers\u2019 group with two of my Metro State colleagues.<\/p>\n

Now, finally, the vanished post is resurrected!\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 x x x x x x x x x xxxx x x x x x x x x xx x x x x x x x x x x x x x\u00a0 x x x x x x xx x xx<\/p>\n

BOOKISH INCIDENTS REPORT\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b>[This is a bookish post, in the spirit of economist Paul Krugman\u2019s wonkish NYT \u201cposts\u201d.]\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is bruised, but unbroken, and now, the healing can continue.\u00a0 Thank you for voting.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Today’s haiku<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>My new bit of twit-speak is LNU for Last Name Unremembered<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 which is useful for aging book recommenders.\u00a0 Charlie argued that \u201dforgotten\u201d is more accurate, more Twitter-ish, and asked, \u201cWas \u201cunremembered\u201d even a word?\u201d\u00a0 Well, Google Editor knows it is, and, dictionaries say that \u201cunremembered\u201d can mean \u201cunrecorded\u201d or not available to be known and so, without further quibbling, and, recognizing that the oldie brain is a wondrous thing, LNU the Twit bit shall remain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0ONTO THE BOOKISH PART:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Friend Sara, who reads a lot of mysteries and sci-fi, and who knows what else, [and who knows that I don\u2019t read sci-fi because it is NOW with some differences inserted, e.g. power, technology, climate, and a hypothesized THEN described <\/span>ad infinitum<\/span><\/i>, and I usually quarrel with the inserts or their effects], wanted to exchange current good reads with which to face whatever is next.\u00a0 I said, \u201cSure,\u201d to mysteries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"

Read Andy Borowitz’ “Profiles in Ignorance”, watch boats, and sigh.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>SARA\u2019S LIST with my comments:<\/b><\/p>\n

S<\/strong>inister Graves, by Marcie Rendon<\/b> is set in 1970\u2019s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation. New to me, sounds good, so I 1-click ordered the first of her Cash Blackbear trilogy, Murder on the Red River.\u00a0 I am, after all, a child of Wahpeton, ND, the \u201chead of the Red\u201d River.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Craig Johnson (Hell and Back) new- and everything else he has written<\/b>.\u00a0 I liked a lot the six seasons of Longmire, based on Craig Johnson\u2019s mysteries, but his Wyoming-set books, not so much.\u00a0 C.J. Box, with his 4 generation heritage,\u00a0 is my go-to guy for Wyomig, especially with ranger Joe Pickett and wife, Marybeth, town LIBRARIAN!\u00a0 Sara does not like the Netflix? video option.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd,<\/b> is already on my partly-read list, and so far, it\u2019s a finisher.\u00a0 Mary Wagner recommended it to me, and she was an excellent recommender, but a mystery with maps would have caught my eye for at least a first thought.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Desolation Canyon, by PJ Tracy<\/b>, is the second of the author\u2019s works set in LA, a departure from the Minneapolis-based mysteries she co-wrote with her mom, who died recently.\u00a0 I often choose books\u00a0 for a location and its culture, and <\/span>Michael Connelly\u2019s Harry Bosch<\/b> and <\/span>Joe Eid\u2019s I.Q.<\/b> are enough LA for me right now.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Counterclockwise Heart, by Brian Farrey<\/b> is fantasy.\u00a0 I KNEW she\u2019d try to slip one by me.\u00a0 Too many other books I\u2019d rather read more.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Two Storm Wood, by Phillip Gray<\/b>, treads the ground and some of the mysteries of post -WWI carnage.\u00a0 For now, <\/span>Charles Todd\u2019s Inspector Ian Rutledge<\/b>\u2019s post-WW1 World is all I can stomach.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Shadows Reel, by C.J Box<\/b> is fun, just to anticipate.\u00a0 I\u2019ve already 1-click pre-ordered it. I love this series for many reasons, but one big one is his even-handed treatment of environmental issues.\u00a0 Only problem is that Lynne Cheney, past spoiler-Director of the NEH<\/a> does, too. Noteworthy daughter, Liz, suggests she\u2019s a good mother, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"

Ponder Maira Kalman’s “Women Holding Things”, love, love them, and be proud.<\/p><\/div>\n

MY LIST<\/b> of current mysteries is split:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>ALREADY READ<\/b> and <\/span>WAITING:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b>ALREADY READ<\/b>, waiting for next one\u2013if there is a next one:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsa Hart\u2019s Li Du Trilogy<\/b>, set in 18th Century, SW China.\u00a0 Love the books, learned a lot, AND Li Du is a librarian.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Jane Harper\u2019s Aaron Falk Trilogy<\/b>, set in contemporary Australia.\u00a0 Third volume due December, 2033.\u00a0 Another good Australia read is Peter Temple\u2019s Jack Irish<\/strong>\u00a0mysteries, which are also a series on Acorn, which is inexpensive and home to other pertinent, beautifully filmed series. P<\/strong><\/span>aul Doiron\u2019s Trooper Mike Bowditch mysteries<\/b>, set all over interior and coastal Maine.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Elly Griffiths\u2019 Archaeologist and Professor Ruth Galloway mysteries<\/b>, set in Norfolk by the sea, in NE England.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Val McDiarmid\u2019s DS Karen Pirie mysteries,<\/b>\u00a0set in St. Andrews, Scotland.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Peter May\u2019s Lewis Trilogy, <\/b>set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>Daniel Silva\u2019s Gabriel Allon<\/b>, part of Israel\u2019s Mossad\u2019s very contemporary activities.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>David Ignatius<\/b>, my CIA and Middle Eastern go-to guy and a <\/span>Washington Post <\/b>columnist.<\/span><\/p>\n

MYSTERIES WAITING, IMPATIENTLY<\/b><\/p>\n

While Justice Sleeps, by Stacy Abrams<\/b>. Likened by Scott Turow to<\/span> John Grisham\u2019s The Pelican Brief,<\/b> which I liked, and Ms. Abrams will know the government\u2019s ways of which she writes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saratoga Paycheck by Stephen Dobyns<\/b>.\u00a0 Herein,\u00a0 Charlie Bradshaw\u00a0 is retired, but not tired, and so am I.\u00a0 Great series, set in upstate NY, as is the <\/span>Clare Fergusson \/ Russ VanAlstyne series, by Julia Spencer-Fleming<\/b>, which I also like. Stephen Dobyns is also a poet, which I like, because poets don\u2019t waste words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My Darling Detective, by Howard Norman<\/b>.\u00a0 I loved Howard Norman\u2019s earlier mystery,\u00a0<\/span>The Bird Artist,\u00a0<\/b>with its layers and setting, and this one also has layers and probing, and setting on the Canadian Maritime coast.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Writ in Stone, by Cora Harrison<\/b>.\u00a0 Book 4 of The Burren Mysteries, set in 16thC West of Ireland, brings to mind the <\/span>Sister Fidelma mysteries by Peter Tremayne,<\/b> which I liked a lot and which give potential to my increasingly tonsured head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CODA\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>I can\u2019t remember what I said after this listing in the vanished post, except to acknowledge that I had gotten carried away AGAIN, that I had more BOOKISH INCIDENTS to report, and that I had to get reading-ready for Poetry Club.\u00a0 Hint: I love Wislawa Szymborsrka.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>More to come.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RESURRECTION OF MY LAST BLOG POST For reasons unknown, my last blog post vanished. I mean poof! It was gone. \u201cError 403\u201d or \u201cError 404\u201d\u2019was all I got. No trash, no delete, no \u201csysop [Charlie] forgot,\u201d nothing. I figured, like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}