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Category Archives: North Atlantic Books
CATCHING UP #2
Most important: ROSELEDGE BOOKS IS OPEN, 2-6pm daily. The “open” signs are hanging from the porch, (but not in the picture), the flowers are growing, some brand-new and lots of other years’ new books are on the shelves, two book … Continue reading
SUMMER HAS COME IN (and so has a webcam)
Roseledge Books is open. Summer has started, fleece hoodies and blankies over the knees on the porch during inaugural wine not withstanding. Fig. #21. The only Roseledge Books sign “before” Charlie fixed the winter stressed message on his way to … Continue reading
GROUP STUDIES
I didn’t expect to like Swedish police detective, Kurt Wallender, but Kathy liked him and she doesn’t like bleak mysteries either, so I read Henning Mankell’s One Step Behind, and — hark! — I liked him. He’s not bleak, but … Continue reading
CATCHING UP #1
“Enough Iceland.” “Why Iceland?” “More pictures.” “I like the pictures.” “Did Charlie take all the pictures?” Yes. Fig. #11. North Atlantic anywhere in spirit; Marshall Point Lighthouse in fact. Okay, I get the idea. I’m through with Iceland — for … Continue reading
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
NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS, CONT’D.
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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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