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I recently read a memoir called "Luncheonette" (set "down the shore") wherein the author served taylor ham sandwiches to guys in JCP&L helmets - talk about homesickness-inducing!
I lived 40 years in New Jersey. Those right-handed, left-turn jughandles really freak out out-of-staters LOL!

Robt


I grew up in Margate in South Jersey and lived in North Jersey for many years, but now I live in St. Louis. I also like Harlan Coben. Have any of you read F. Paul Wilson from the Wall Township area? He's the writer of the Repairman Jack series and one of my fav's. You'll recognize a lot of NJ cities in his novels.
Check him out! Ellen

Robt


Admission is worth the read for locale. Still trying to figure out if I actually liked the protagonist.
I think what bothers me most - what gets stuck in my craw - is the stereotype that all Jerseyans are Carmela or Tony Soprano or guests on Springer. The only classy, intelligent residents of the state are transplants. I'm proud to be a born and bred Jersey girl, but there are times when I'm not taken seriously at the non- New Jersey Ivy League institution where I attended grad school.
On the other hand, I am glad that the rest of the world thinks we're just a vast chemical-dump wasteland. It keeps the beautiful parts of New Jersey safe for the residents.
What exit? Growing up? Just a ways off 139B of the Parkway. Now? I prefer the seldom used country roads nestled around the state.


I work in Hunterdon so I know I what you mean...
I do agree Evanovich has gotten formulaic. I feel compelled to stay with the series to the end. I guess I'm a completist.

Robt "I am from Gloucester County (ever hear of it. lol) and went to Bucknell U ( in Pa) with Philip Roth.


If you're in Ocean City on Dec 12, stop by Sun Rose Books, where we'll be having a signing.
The other New Jersey books I love are by Harlan Coben, who writes mysteries about a former basketball star-turned-sports agent/private detective named Myron Bolitar. A lot of the action takes place in Myron's parents' house in Livingston. The first book in the series is called Deal Breaker, and even though I live far from Jersey, I always feel like I'm back on South Orange Ave. the second I pick it up.