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<\/a>Tide is out, boat's afloat. Rocks extend, island nears. I and book are here.<\/p><\/div>\n
I “met” and learned a lot about spies in China from Charles Cumming’s Typhoon<\/strong> which began in Hong Kong and ended in Shanghai This reminds me that very big huzzahs (cheers?) need to go to the Roseledge Books Regular who called to say he was eating breakfast in Shanghai and WEARING HIS ROSELEDGE BOOKS T-SHIRT! I assured him the world was better for his effort and would be better still if he took a grand hike about town and exhibited his innate sandwich-board skills.\u00a0 The phone hummed in silence.\u00a0 RB is still waiting for two strangers to meet wearing RB t-shirts\u00a0 and thus affirm that good people connect through good books.\u00a0 How about that for thinking about things with others!<\/p>\n Now I am reading Lee Vance’s<\/strong> finiller, Restitution,<\/strong> and though my finance-through-fiction efforts have waned since the death of Paul Erdman<\/strong>, Iancial thr trust former Goldman-Sachs director Vance’s Wall Street activities. I hope Peter Spiegelman<\/strong> has a new story, sort-of-about the NYC family-owned bank adventures, out in paperback by next summer, too.<\/p>\n First books of this summer’s big order have arrived which is good.\u00a0 Bad was failing to recommend Julia Spencer-Fleming<\/strong> to\u00a0 returning visitors — thus, RBR’s — who wanted another of an 80’s, mystery series, set mostly in NYC, with a theater director and cop as detectives that we both knew but could not remember by author or title.\u00a0 Aarghhh!\u00a0 Think Episcopal Church instead of\u00a0 theater and the Clare Ferguson\/Russ VanAlstyne duo, and it could have been the start of a beautiful, multi-volume read.\u00a0 Maybe next summer…<\/p>\n A collection of rocks, then books. Is there a pattern? Purpose? Thinking.<\/p><\/div>\n Here’s a list of some books sold at RB so far this summer.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n Cod by Mark Kurlansky The Windows of Brimnes by Bill Holm<\/strong><\/p>\n Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child<\/strong><\/p>\n C olony of Unrequited Dreams\u00a0 by Wayne Johnston<\/strong><\/p>\n The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Given the e-coli disaster scaring European salad lovers, Charlie has decided to revert to his favored diet of pizza and doughnuts.\u00a0 I have failed as a mother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning it was cloudy, still and waiting.\u00a0 Now it is sunny and hot, with some leaves moving sometimes. (See webcam and refresh twice, even though, as Charlie pointed out, the horizon is tilting eastward.)\u00a0 Apparently the waiting is over … Continue reading ![\"IMG_4309.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-RsgscDY5BIQ\/TVH6bkjJunI\/AAAAAAAAC9E\/AODK7WvEbcw\/h480\/IMG_4309.jpg\")
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\nLate Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAn Island Apart\u00a0\u00a0 by Lilian Beckwith
\nA Course Called Ireland by Tom Coyne<\/strong>
\nAway by Jane Urquhart
\nThe Jane Austen Book Club by Joy Fowler
\nFrankie\u2019s Place by Jim Sterba
\nTwo Lives by Janet Malcolm
\nThe Forgotten Garden by Elizabeth Morton
\nAbigail Adams\u00a0 by Woody Horton
\nBacardi\u00a0 by Tom Gjelten
\nThe\u00a0 Zookeeper\u2019s Garden by Diane Ackerman<\/strong><\/p>\n