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<\/a>The sun sets, the boat's duties done; the book finds its way to the reader.<\/p><\/div>\n
Then, I may have talked this interesting RB bookie into Maira Kalman\u2019s Principles of Uncertainty<\/strong>, but it wasn\u2019t a hard sell. Her combination of pictures and comments makes me want to travel with her and hope that she talks about what she sees as she looks at it. Her blog in the NYT<\/strong>, And the Pursuit of Happiness<\/strong>, will be issued in paperback this October and RB will have it next summer. I love her worldview. Wise, good-natured, knowing.<\/p>\n Then as RB Regulars who sail sometimes do, these two who, with their RB T-shirts are now both RB Regulars, checked out whatever I had on voyages, in this case round-the world voyages, and found to their liking Lawrence Bergreen\u2019s Over the Edge of the World <\/strong>(Magellan) and Geoffrey Wolff\u2019s Hard Way Around<\/strong> (Joshua Slocum), and, after a quick check of the North Atlantic table, Arnauldur Indridason\u2019s Operation Napoleon<\/strong>, an Icelandic thriller with roots in a WWII plane crash. Surely it can\u2019t be any more noir than his Erlander novels, but I haven\u2019t read my copy yet.<\/p>\n I love being bookseller to the picky. Roseledge Books Regulars are the best.<\/p>\n Big time thunderstorm at the moment. Mugginess is to be gone tomorrow. Luckily I don\u2019t have to be outdoors today, but for boaters caught walking down Sea Street, Roseledge Books is open and the cottage innards are drip dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing beats the fun of Roseledge Books Regulars returning after a couple of summers and choosing to buy the somewhat unusual — okay, strange — books I love and so have on the shelves. For instance, Leanne Shapton\u2019s Important Artifacts … Continue reading