Monthly Archives: February 2008

NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS, CONT’D.

Posted on February 23, 2008 by colleen

Finally, I found the nugget in Jar City. The Icelandic database of genealogy and medical history played a part in the story. Remember the good article about it in The New Yorker some years ago? The question, as I recall, … Continue reading →

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ROSELEDGE BOOKS

Posted on February 16, 2008 by colleen

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 →

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SEARCH BOOKS COMING

Posted on February 10, 2008 by colleen

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 →

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A FRIEND CALLED

Posted on February 7, 2008 by colleen

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 →

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TENANTS HARBOR TIES

Posted on February 4, 2008 by colleen

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 →

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NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS

Posted on February 2, 2008 by colleen

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 →

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