There are some books that I would be better off not reading. "Buried Stuff" definitely falls in that category. And I knew this going into the book, since this is the second book in the series by Fiffer that I've read.
Jane Wheel is a Picker. She goes to auctions, estate sales, yard sales, etc and 'picks through' for collectibles. She just happened to pick up the clues to the murder mystery along the way.
I find myself drawn into the story, and come out with a craving to go hunt for cheap antiques. I'm in the middle of trying to rid myself of excess possessions, and after reading this book I want to run out and look for old salt and pepper shakers, and depression glass, and all the wonderful knick-knacks that fill my mother's and my aunts' houses.
I did pull a really amazing passage from "Buried Stuff." There is a scene where the old man is saying to pick up something to remember a place by. "That's why God made pockets." He leaves things around, old pennies and pretty rocks, so that people will find them and remember him. "That's why God made pockets." I love that thought. I've been picking up pennies and putting them in my pocket whenever I find one. It makes me think of my grandmother. Now I wonder if she's been putting them in my way so that I would remember her.
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