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RAMBLING ROUNDInside and Outsideat the Same Timeby Anthony Buccino |
Life & Growing Up
A famous writing magazine's contest judge said: "Great storytelling! The author sees "the story inside the story" and communicates each one succinctly and effectively. His observations are a gift and so is his way of communicating them. I laughed. I cried. It made me email my 84-year-old mother. I could smell the leather of my father's shoes. THAT'S good writing." "... Advice to author: while you are rightly likened to a number of other writers, be sure to stay Anthony Buccino. There are no duplicates." A famous writing magazine's contest judge said this book's cover should say: ''New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor' '' ''Buccino takes us where we've all been, in these charming, very readable, accessible essays. It's quite pleasant revisiting the innocence that he creates or remembers in these often wry and witty observations about life. The writing is very good, even, and flows nicely, to make one want to read more.... The author could even be played up a bit on the cover, such as ''New Jersey's 'Garrison Keillor' '' or something to that effect. ... There should be definite regional interest in this book. But Buccino writes well enough to draw a national audience as well ...'' ''... Buccino's style is a cross between Garrison Keillor and Dave Barry, his stories full of heartfelt observations that inevitably have an edge of humor. ..." -- Al Sullivan in The Secaucus Reporter Copyright © 2002-2010 by Anthony Buccino. All rights reserved. |
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RAMBLING ROUND - Inside and Outside at the Same Time TABLE OF CONTENTS
Bellwood Crier has-bin Call me Mr. Memory Summer peaches Sleeping over Antnee’s shoe store Magical top drawer Do we ever stop missing our folks? It’s Catfish Pond now Sun Tan Lake Air raid drill memories Yellow crackers school days Pretzels! Monk’s Castle joyrides Mudhole Martha A test, Peggy Sue? Peter Pan Revisited, again Reunion trepidation Why we cry at weddings Great-gramps was a ‘Pumpkin’ After the Titanic Strangers in old photos Coal miner’s kids’ Christmas Not where you fish Marooned Boomer Parallel parking No Saturdays off And so we trust House challenged $110 light bulbs Martha doesn’t live here, anymore Bob Harris fan club Lawn labors lightener Roaring peace ‘Yo, Donald Duck, hit the hay!’ Midnight fax If you are meant to drown Gram’s headache cure Pushing Ginger Rogers and such What area code? Random channels Canned soup in a jar Vacuum bowling! Timing is everything Happy dog dance Blackbird Doggie neighborhood Howling hounds New Jersey road icon Parkway tokens pave way to Hell Pikers Rambling round Harborside, Jersey City Light rail, Jersey City Underground, Newark City Subway Writing the book is the easy part Where or when you laugh Jersey Kid Editor imprisoned Why we do it Most of the essays in this collection appeared as the author's Rambling Round columns in The Belleville Post, The Nutley Journal, The Independent Press of Bloomfield and the Glen Ridge Paper, and are reprinted with permission of Worrall Community Newspapers. Three essays appeared in Belleville! and are reprinted without permission ... because the editor never returned the 5th grade photo for the 4th essay that never ran! Why We Do It is reprinted from Between the Lines, the publication of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Anthony Buccino has written three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville, N.J., including A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection, in 1991, and Sister Dressed Me Funny, in 1996.
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