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Wary is the word of the day.  Front and center but below the bend of pages A1 and B1 in the paper NYT were two warnings to the naive reader, if such still exists. First wary warning is John Lefevre’s … Continue reading →

*Once-asked-questions have been flooding (okay, seeping) into my email. As you all know, I hope, I answer them in the blog. So… Question: I’m going to Paris.  What’s a good mystery? RB Suggestion: Cara Black’s series features a different Parisian … Continue reading →

Time flies, giving looms, and books abound; can more suggestions be far behind?  (These continue suggestions begun two posts back, 11-8- 13) ***** For someone new in the extended family who is nifty but not yet familiar,  Roseledge Books suggests … Continue reading →

The annual surge of gift-giving is upon us, and what better gift to give than a book which says, “I still know who you are”? For that friend interested in Manhattan’s water supply,  the best RB choices were E. L. … Continue reading →

The BOOKS and OPEN 2-6 signs are hung and banging against the porch.  The bushes are dancing as the afternoon sea breezes blow. (See at least two clicks of the webcam.)  New books are unboxed and ordered by size and … Continue reading →

Already there in spirit and soon in body, Charlie and I will be smelling the sea’s salt and, with luck, saying hello to the harbor before dusk  next Friday.  Maybe a week late, but better late than early when its … Continue reading →

It’s time for the high summer book sales report from Roseledge Books! So begins the fun. Maine books first,  and first of the first is the one with almost less than one degree of separation. Preston, Douglas. Dinosaurs in the … Continue reading →

Always exciting, Charlie found a Tenants Harbor connection to the mosquitoes-must-die works of artist Dennis Asbraugh who, after suffering through dawn’s mosquito welts while watching local lobsterman head out, went back to his TH cottage and built wonderful mosquito killing … Continue reading →

My sister died last month, two weeks to the day after she went to the ER with a stomach ache. Call the cause complications of surgery or infection, both of which it was, her death was also surprising and, now, … Continue reading →

Last post I mentioned the struggle of finding just-right-reads for a noteworthy reader soon to have a knee replaced. Then today’s browse through NYTBR’s brought before my very eyes FOUR possibilities: Great House by Nicole Kraus “The characters…are intricately connected, … Continue reading →