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summer reading list
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as soon as possible...

...in other words, just because school is starting doesn't mean summer reading (or a summer state of mind for that matter) has to end!  au contraire, literary comrades, right now my labor day weekend library pile includes art book "drawn in" by julia rothman, cookbook "friends at my table" by alice hart, novel "fin & lady" by cathleen schine, and travelogue "voyage of a summer sun" by robin cody.  the sketchbooks are vast and varied, plus julia's own work is amazing (check out www.juliarothman.com).  alice hart's book has the gift of beauty and hospitality that i flipped through (or rather drooled through) preparing to host a fall harvest meal.  cathleen schine is quick and witty, i couldn't stop reading and even stayed up too late just to finish her book...the plot never gets hung up or snagged anywhere, it keeps moving...and she introduces an "I" perspective/mystery character about three-fourths of the way through and lets you discover who it is:  brilliant! and i'm really identifying with robin cody's canoe journey of the entire columbia river...many of his discoveries are familiar to me because of my traversing the willamette.  for the first time, i also admit interest in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of affinities with the mississippi river.  what's on your fall book list?

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