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POSSIBLES
Commenter and friend Mary T. likes to read of the sea when near the sea, but that means very different things to different bookstore visitors: seafarers, cottage renters, overnighters, or summer people, like me. The folllowing are some newly published … Continue reading
ROSELEDGE BOOKS HAS ONLY PAPERBACKS
Roseledge cottage has no insulation. This allows instant air conditioning with temperature shifts and big time humidity, especially when the fog rolls in. Mostly this is good or at least okay. But without insulation, hardcover books would wilt, just as … Continue reading
ROSELEDGE BOOKS
Roseledge Books is a very small, very fine, bookstore, open from Memorial Day through Labor Day on Sea Street in Tenants Harbor. The (roughly) 750 paperback books are on shelves and a table on the front porch of Roseledge cottage. … Continue reading
SEARCH BOOKS COMING
Okay, I’ll admit it. Jar City is slow going. Well written, just unintriguing. Maybe I’ve watched too much Law and Order and I already live among Scandinavians, but this police procedural with its “painful inevitability” addresses crimes, criminals, victims, police, … Continue reading
A FRIEND CALLED
Iceland!? Why books about Iceland? Because Iceland is part of the North Atlantic, and Tenants Harbor sailors sail the North Atlantic. You mean the sailors who visit Roseledge Books are on their way to ICELAND? Well, they might be. Huh. … Continue reading
TENANTS HARBOR TIES
Today is a very good day. I found a tie to Tenants Harbor in the last part of the book, Icelander! (Roseledge Books is part of the village of Tenants Harbor, Maine.) This is very exciting because I am ever … Continue reading
NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
It’s halfway to summer in Maine and VERY COLD in Minnesota. Errol Flynn’s swashbuckler, Sea Fever, is nowhere on cable and the televised PGA tour site is not near the ocean. So I’m bored with old snow and missing summer … Continue reading