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THE BUSH IS GONE!
Yes, the scene-stealing, invasive euonymous is no more. (Webcam alert!) Okay, the newly viewable rocks are befogged, but, as Mainers note, just wait a minute. And the telephone line no longer rubs the tree branches and moans. Or maybe the … Continue reading
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WHY READERS MATTER, REASON #4208
I love facts. They are malleable enough to be the stuff of never-ending arguments. (How many changed ingredients make a new recipe?) And circumstances change. ( Is the Aral Sea still one of the four largest bodies of water?) I … Continue reading
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SUMMER STYLES
With changing appetizers available from the Produce Lady, summer eases into August. Little carrots, sugar snap peas, and native strawberries have passed, but green beans and broccoli florets dipped in cabbage slaw are a new favorite, grape tomatoes are still … Continue reading
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LOVE YOUR LIBRARY — AND ROSELEDGE BOOKS
It’s a slow summer on Sea Street. Not many cottage renters, boaters, or even Tenants Harbor regulars are walking by, which means only that Roseledge Books sales are few and precious and that I miss you all. Today is warm, … 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
FIRST THINGS FIRST, PART 2
Rain and more rain. The good about yet another wet day is that this book order WILL get done as long as the raindrops fall stirringly on my (uninsulated) rooftop. So, carrying on, the list continues. Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius … Continue reading
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JOURNALS, MEMOIRS, THEN WHAT?
Journals or memoirs (a kind of rolling journal?) are my current favorite form of reading. For instance, I loved learning about the Middle East from William Dalrymple’s From the Holy Mountain, Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, or Carl Raswan’s … Continue reading
CATCHING UP #2, cont’d.
Two days ago, on her way to the post office, a Barter’s Point Road neighbor, stopped to say hello. (Barter’s Point Road is what Sea Street becomes after it meets Spruce Lane, three houses up the hill from Roseledge Books.) … Continue reading
ROSELEDGE BOOKS HAS ONLY PAPERBACKS
Roseledge cottage has no insulation. This allows instant air conditioning with temperature shifts and big time humidity, especially when the fog rolls in. Mostly this is good or at least okay. But without insulation, hardcover books would wilt, just as … Continue reading
ROSELEDGE BOOKS
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