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<\/a>You look at this boat and what do you know? What would you do to know more?<\/p><\/div>\n
The question now is not “do you recall something” but rather “do you know which is a good — or the best — source to find the something you do not recall?”\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\u00a0 And in this search for and browse through best available sources comes new learning, even a speculation or two.\u00a0 Oh the joy!\u00a0 Oh the answer to a clue in the crossword puzzle!<\/p>\n
Mostly, Google searching is fact-checking, with context a by-product of the many listings, a little like the card catalog of old.\u00a0 Most of us need some kind of context or scheme to cluster odds and ends so they make sense.\u00a0 Because (I think)\u00a0 it has one such scheme which might be useful,\u00a0 Jonathan\u00a0 Spence’s The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci<\/strong> lurked on RB shelves waiting for me to finish this year’s series continuations* and then — whoosh — it was gone to an alert reader who spotted it hiding underneath several unlike books.\u00a0 Careful browsing is the hallmark of a real reader in a good bookstore. RB has the former and surely is the latter.<\/p>\n I have ordered another copy.\u00a0 Cross your fingers that it is not currently out-of-print in paperback, as are Blair Fuller’s Art in the Blood, Claire Mowat’s The Outport People<\/strong>, Marilyn Dwelley’s Spring<\/strong> (and Summer and Fall) Wildflowers of New England<\/strong>, Celia Thaxter’s Island Garden<\/strong> with watercolors by Childe Hassam, etc., etc., etc.\u00a0 But I am getting carried away.<\/p>\n The ribs of old schooners as seen at low tide. What do you think happened?<\/p><\/div>\n It’s a very slow summer.\u00a0 This makes seeing those of you who come, even after ten years, even more fun.\u00a0 You in the nation’s MANY hot spots are missing out on breezes, wine on the porch with the last of the native carrots small enough to be an hors d’oeuvres<\/em>, and the first wild blueberries on the low bushes by the driveway.\u00a0 New books get shelved tonight, always a fun exercise in reader aesthetics and best marketing efforts.\u00a0 How many readers asking for multi-generational books does it take before a little section emerges?\u00a0 How faded or yellow does an older new book have to be before it goes in the $1.00 basket?\u00a0 Should Finnish mysteries be grouped with Scandinavian mysteries?\u00a0 Is mention of “that painter from Maine” enough to put a mystery involving art critics next to Wyeth books on the art table?\u00a0 I love this stuff.<\/p>\n Can you see the ripening high-bush blueberries increasingly in the center of the webcam?\u00a0 Yum and strong hearts.<\/p>\n *Latest series continuations to read:\u00a0 C. J. Box (Wyoming game warden, Joe Pickett), Catherine Coulter (FBI Couple), Margaret Maron (North Carolina judge, Deborah Knott) , Daniel Silva (Israeli art restorer, Gabriel Allon), right after I\u00a0 finish Lee Vance’s Garden of Betrayal<\/strong>, not in a series that I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it okay to use Google when working the NYT crossword puzzle?, I asked. And they answered, ” Never.”\u00a0 ” Only on Saturday.”\u00a0 “Only for proper nouns.”\u00a0\u00a0 “Why not?” The question arises mostly because it is fun to argue on … Continue reading ![\"IMG_2557.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-qaqlcAo32Zw\/TVH6Pp6xiAI\/AAAAAAAAC8Q\/Zh2vvQoAvoA\/h480\/IMG_2557.jpg\")
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