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Category Archives: Roseledge Books
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
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
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
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
ANOTHER’S LIFE
Biographies are good fat-summer-reads. They last several afternoons under the umbrella or inside someplace, out of the fog. My late next-door neighbor Harry preferred biographies, one per summer, preferably about Jacqueline Onassis or Katherine Hepburn. Another customer said she chose … Continue reading
STILL CHOOSING
The Produce Lady has raspberries and, surprise!, small wild blueberries. “The blueberries must be from Massachusetts,” says doubting Scott; “I don’t think any Maine blueberries have been harvested yet.” Maybe they’re from New Jersey, I suggest. “New Jersey only has … Continue reading
CHOOSING THE JUST RIGHT READ
Deciding which book to read next is tricky and very personal. Liked author, known protagonist, intriguing subject or angle, new evidence, significant locale, bleak, hopeful, wordy, sparse, thin or fat, — the possible tipping points are many and varied. Fig. … 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
NEWS
It’s a wonderful day in Tenants Harbor: soft sun, quiet breeze, cooing mourning dove (I think) and a harbor full of dinghies to welcome back lobstermen later in the day. Fig. #33. (Picture from Fig. #26 repeated by accident, but … Continue reading
BOOKS ADDED SO FAR, 2008
In the column to the right, I’ve added a page to record the new books added to the shelves of Roseledge Books during this summer. The first “installment” of this ongoing saga is listed below because I don’t know how … Continue reading