Category Archives: Series’ Favorites

BOOKISH ROMP

Christmas cheer prevailed as Charlie and I and our almost-family neighbors had our biennial holiday romp at our almost-neighborhood bookstore yesterday. Everybody got a book (Thanks, moms), then retired to the Finnish Bistro across the street for really-good goodies and … Continue reading

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PICTURES MATTER

So many good things are happening, it’s hard to know where to start. The little wild blueberries are here in such profusion that bowls of half blueberries/half cheerios are daily delights. Typing urges surge as elbow malaise quiets. Roseledge Books … Continue reading

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SO MUCH GOOD NEWS

This is a glorious day. The harbor is alive with Sailing School kids wiggling about in daysailers, kayakers gliding inches above the water, dinghies bobbing in place for lobsterboats, a yacht and a powerboat looking for their rental moorings, and … Continue reading

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FIRST THINGS FIRST, PART 3

Finally, the last of the order lists.  To make it more intriguing, look for fat biographies, detailed memoirs, journals, logs, or diaries of adventurers in places doing things we know too little about, at least four works with (sometimes remote) … Continue reading

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GOING SOMEPLACE?

Two boaters stopped by for a treasure and a visit about books and wondered if RB had anything about Egypt, as they were about to cruise the Nile. The answer, of course, is “of course.” The gauntlet was tossed. Fig. … Continue reading

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MORE BOOKS ADDED

This is the 5th batch of treasures added this summer! Some of these are reorders due to popular demand. (My only other copy sold.) Julia Spencer-Fleming’s series with the Vicar and the Police Chief is the best example. Some are … Continue reading

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READERS HAVING FUN

It’s been a great week of old (well, long-time) and new (two visits or second visit this summer) regulars refinding Roseledge Books. As always, we talked about important matters in and out of books. Fig. #35. Lurking behind the unruly … Continue reading

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AND CHOOSING

Company comes; times alter. Rosehips are turning orange, soon to be fooling walkers-by into thinking they are little tomatoes and then the puckers come. But always we read. Millie is reading Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August … Continue reading

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MORE BOOKS ADDED #3

Quite exciting news is that Roseledge Books has a second bestseller — which means three coipies have been sold. Walter Isaacson’s Einstein is now added to Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map, and together they document how nifty are the readers … Continue reading

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MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY

Three annual additions to favorite series made this week’s NYTimes “Paperback Mass Market Bestseller List” (7-6-08). They seem like holiday catch-up conversations with members of the family — even when I gripe about too little adventure, too many words, so-so … Continue reading

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