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Summer Reading with THEBOOKJEANIE  Always in pursuit of a shady spot to read in the summer, I discovered this little hideaway at the historic Hubbell Trading Post in the northeast corner of Arizona. A perfect place to pull out my book basket and browse through the selections that I picked up earlier in the day at the sale in the desert atrium of the Sedona Public Library.  By the time I completed my solo journey to Colorado, the front seat of my car was filled with novels by Isabel Allende ( Island Beneath the Sea) and   Marguerite Duras ( The Lover), a memoir of Paris by Alex Karmel ( A Corner of the Marais), as well as texts and pamphlets on Navajo code talkers, Canyon de Chelly, and the largest meteor crater in the U.S. New and memorable reading . . . After turning the last page of  Andrea Barrett 's book of short stories, Ship Fever , I wanted to skip back to the beginning and start again. Short stories are not my favorite genre so this was an surprising re