{"id":147,"date":"2009-02-18T19:11:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-02-18T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:11:57","slug":"tickler-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"TICKLER BOOKS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I have been remiss.\u00a0 I know this because two of my three known readers emailed me to ask how I was.\u00a0 This translates to if I weren\u2019t dead, I would be trying to guilt you all into reading, especially if I were reading something really good, which I was, Amir Aczel\u2019s book about Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Jesuit and the Skull<\/strong>.\u00a0 Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/strong> says, probably rightly, that it is \u201can uninspired and all-too-brief look at a remarkable subject,\u201d but inspired<\/em>\u00a0 is a loaded word that asks too much for too many different readers.\u00a0 I liked the book because I like Teilhard du Chardin and I hadn\u2019t noticed a book by or about him on a bookstore\u2019s shelves since my college days in the early 1960\u2019s.\u00a0 I still have and found my copy of The Phenomenon of Man<\/strong>, which is still in print.<\/p>\n

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\nFig. 50.\u00a0 More tidal than seasonal, this picture of ribs of old schooners provokes an acceptable winter recollection.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aczel\u2019s book also made me remember to try and get for Roseledge Books Tim Severin\u2019s The Spice Islands Voyage<\/strong>.\u00a0 It replicates the boat and itinerary of an early voyage of Alfred Russell Wallace who is back in the news as the man who, as I understand it and I may be wrong, provoked a dawdling Darwin into finally publishing his Origin of Species<\/strong>.\u00a0 I try to keep Charles Darwin\u2019s Voyage of the Beagle<\/strong> in stock because it is a favorite summer read for sailors, maybe especially now as we celebrate his 200th birthday.<\/p>\n

Finally (for the moment), I had barely finished reading Aczel\u2019s book when what to my browsing eyes should appear but Marilyn Stasio\u2019s mention that Claire Taschdjian\u2019s The Peking Man is Missing<\/strong> is back in print.\u00a0 (NYT Book Review<\/strong>, 1\/11\/2008)\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know until I finished the book that the skull of the Peking Man, which is also the skull of the book\u2019s title, was\u00a0 lost or stolen during World War II and that Claire Taschdjian was one of the last people to handle the bones.\u00a0 Clearly, this is a must next-read.<\/p>\n

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Fig. #51.\u00a0 Like the book, Sea Street leads to Roseledge Books and next-reads<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Amir Aczel\u2019s The Jesuit and the Skull<\/strong> may not be inspirational, but it is something good because it leads to further reading.\u00a0 Provocative<\/em> is too blatant, and starter-book is too simplistic, especially for those who follow his ideas about evolution.\u00a0 How about a tickler-book<\/em> which, like tickler files of old, reminds you of things to do, places to go, and books to read?\u00a0 Find it and others in paperback at Roseledge Books come summer.\u00a0 I will look for you.<\/p>\n

In the cold of February in Minnesota with only PGA tournaments and selected scenes in PBS\u2019 Sense and Sensibility<\/strong> to remind me of the ocean, I love that Teilhard du Chardin persevered, thwarted the Vatican and demonstrated, yet again, the folly of censorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I have been remiss.\u00a0 I know this because two of my three known readers emailed me to ask how I was.\u00a0 This translates to if I weren\u2019t dead, I would be trying to guilt you all into reading, especially … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}