It was another surprising day at the floating bookshop. I welcomed two customers back into the fold. Yelena, the young romance lady, must have left work early. I used to catch her going on a coffee run in the other direction when the weather was threatening and I set up at the viaduct. She overpaid, as usual, for Jackie Collins' Married Lovers.
I'd thought Maria was long gone from the neighborhood. I was so happy to see her. She bought A Hitch in Twilight almost two years ago. Her family was caught in the mortgage mess. The good news is they will be able to sell the house, and she is doing all she can to see that her daughter continues at the University of Bridgeport. I was shocked when she said she wanted to buy Close to the Edge. Are you sure? I wanted to say, feeling guilty about the prospect of taking money from her.
Eric, a young man of color, dressed for success, purchased a book on middle management, part of Abdul the Friendly Porter's latest donation. The other day he bought Vince Lombardi's Strive to Excel. He spoke of his dreams, one of which is to charter a plane to Bermuda, which costs $26,000. He wants to take his five-year-old sister along. He bought her a couple of books, one on aviation. Good luck, Eric.
Thanks, folks.
Hey, mystery fans - in case you don't know, PBS is running a new series, Zen, based on the novels of Michael Dibdin, on Masterpiece Mystery. It was shot on location in Rome, and centers on detective Aurelio Zen, a Venetian by birth. Rufus Sewell, whose credits go back to 1991, is the lead. Sci-fi fans will remember him as the star of Dark City (1993). Zen is a man of great integrity in a sea of corruption and cynicism characteristic of the films of Martin Scorsese. It is odd that almost the entire cast speaks in British accents, but it is the only fault of the series. Dibdin was a Brit himself. Lest we forget, all the great series based on classic Russian novels also suffered that same "flaw." To my dismay, only three episodes were shot. The second, Cabal, was as good as mysteries get.
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