"BEACH READING" in Ocean City ... 2009 Summer Season
I have three great locations for my summer reading in Ocean City ... on the front porch after 5PM with the ocean breeze coming up the street, in the back yard under a tree anytime, on under a beach umbrella on Surf Beach in a light rain when most people are leaving the beach. By the way, for that third location my toes get wet but the book stays dry. And I'm working on a 4th location on our third floor back deck looking out at the Longport Bridge. No one knows you're there. I have a secure lamp, and I'm looking for a beach deck chair in this location.
So I just read the USA Today (5/7/2009) and their "SUMMER BOOK PREVIEW" ... and here is the abbreviated list of my personal choices for summer reading and the date they are due to arrive in your favorite library (mine being the Ocean City Library on Simpson between 17th & 18th Street) or bookstore. If you see me over the summer in one of my favorite locations, I will be reading one of the following:
Paul Newman: A Life ... by Shawn Levy ... a big film watcher like me reads a lot of actor/actress biographies
Road Dogs ... by Elmore Leonard ... one of the greats in the mystery genre
The Scarecrow ... by Michael Connelly ... one of my favorite mystery writers, the hard boiled type w Harry Bosch
Driving Like Crazy ... by P.J. O'Rourke ... essays about the automobile, just caught by eye
My Father's Tears and Other Stories ... by John Updike ... his final stories (Updike died in January, 2009)
Rain Gods ... by James Lee Burke ... another great mystery writer who has his setting in New Orleans & Louisiana
The Old Cape Magic ... by Richard Russo ... one of the best American living fiction writers
The Defector ... by Daniel silva ... a personal favorite ... an excellent espionage writer
If you find the 5/7/2009 paper, there are a lot of other recommendations. These happen to be the ones that I have identified for myself.
I also picked up four or five other ones recently from the Ocean City Library ... this is what I'm reading right now for a few weeks:
Brimstone ... by Robert Parker (2009) ... Parker writes the Spenser series & some westerns too
Peaks & Valleys by Spencer Johnson ... the sub-title is: "Making good & Bad Times Work for You in Life/Work
The Associate ... by John Grisham (2009) ... everyone knows his writing production
Polk ... The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (2008) ... always read 1 or 2 Presidential bios
That should keep everybody fairly busy at the beach in Summer, 2009. Dap
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