Summertime Book Blues

I used to put books aside especially for the summer, knowing I'd have more time and feel more relaxed, less stressed, more open to the long loving voyage with an accomplished author at the helm. The late novelist Sheila Roberts once told me that she found nothing so sensually delicious in life as setting one word next to another. For me, that pleasure radiated especially from each summer book I plunged into and surrounded myself with.

In the old days I could happily sprawl somewhere enjoyi...