{"id":1662,"date":"2014-03-25T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:15:42","slug":"summer-is-a-comin-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER IS A-COMIN’ IN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there better news than to hear that some of you have secured cottage reservations, cajoled friends into finding and saving cottage space nearby, may come if RB gets new t-shirts (Charlie is working on it), think that Paul Doiron’s second mystery, The Trespasser<\/strong>, includes a\u00a0 Harpoon bar and should, therefore, be included in the greater-Tenants Harbor fiction list of several posts ago (which I am checking out by reading the book and being happily transported to Maine in March), and maybe best of all, that I have a new, left-leg brace which is covered with roses in the style of Paul Gaugain and handsomely supports my knee and ankle so that I am (ta da) walking again and will, therefore, be in Maine to see you all?\u00a0 Big WHEW!<\/p>\n

So it’s time to start going through your many good suggestions for books to add to RB shelves, even with another week of way below average temperatures and maybe another storm of many precipitants.\u00a0 This is the annual puzzle of plenty I love.<\/p>\n

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Summer is a-comin' in, on bobbing boats and forsythia blooms. <\/p><\/div>\n

So which books do\u00a0 or should matter most to RB readers who are trying to make sense of the world from the shore of God’s chosen ocean\u00a0 in a perfect time and place?\u00a0 A special thanks to those of you who cavalierly suggested the following INTRIGUING TITLES THAT ARE NOT YET, AND MAY NEVER BE IN PAPERBACK!\u00a0 AARGHH! <\/strong><\/p>\n

Land of Dreams (Minnesota Trilogy) by Vidar Sundstal<\/strong> (Set on Minnesota shore of\u00a0 Lake Superior which is big water connected to ocean, includes Norwegian lore which acknowledges half of Charlie and sme RB regulars.\u00a0 UM press hopes it is next\u00a0 big time Scandinavian mystery e.g. Stieg Larrson.)<\/p>\n

The Cartographer of No Man’s Land by P.J. Duffy<\/strong> (Partly set in Nova Scotia, which someone described as Maine only more so, includes lobstering or at least fishing, during WWI about which most of us know too little and Charles Todd is good, but not enough)<\/p>\n

Transatlantic by Colum McCann<\/strong> (Ocean crossing is always good, George Mitchell is a Maine connection, Newfoundland-to-Ireland crossing offers a seque into always fun argument that Irish were here before Vikings)<\/p>\n

Naturalists at Sea: Scientific Travelers from Dampier to Darwin by Glyn Williams <\/strong>(Complements Voyage of the Beagle<\/strong> and (I hope) maybe provokes a reprinting of Tim Severin’s Spice Island Voyage<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around The World by Matthew Goodman<\/strong> (Can RB ever have enough of strong women and ocean crossings?)<\/p>\n

Twelve Owls by Laura Erickson and Betsy Bower<\/strong> (RB birder reports that owls are everywhere there this winter as they are here in MN, and the art in the book is so-o-o fine.)<\/p>\n

Latest mystery in series by Julia Spencer-Fleming, Cara Black, Elly Griffiths, Harry Dolan, Bruce DaSilva <\/strong>(Please recall the latest, and maybe best, RB marketing ploy of drawing RB Regulars back each summer to get the latest book in these excellent, harder-to-find series, which depends on the series’ latest being available!\u00a0 Aarrghh, again<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n

Water (photographs) by Edward Burtynsky<\/strong> (Beautiful, pertinent, interesting, very expensive)<\/p>\n

Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, UpdIII by Michael Pollan and Maira Kalman<\/strong> (with changes, it reads\u00a0 like a conversation with readers and anything with Maira Kalman illustrations is better.)<\/p>\n

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Come to see the bush \/ be gone, a rock wall come, and \/ friends with books await.<\/p><\/div>\n

News from the Group Home: Cat loose on the seventh floor last week.\u00a0 He or she will probably be everywhere welcomed, but as all the floors look alike, may never find home.\u00a0 Treebirds abound, cardinal still visits and remains outstanding\u00a0 on bare branches, and ploppy pigeons\u00a0 try to balance on well-stocked birdfeeder ledge.\u00a0 Word of tasty blueberry pancakes\u00a0 traveled fast through the elevator\u00a0 which apparently caused the biggest later-breakfast crowd ever.\u00a0\u00a0 “The blueberry pancakes were really good.\u00a0 Our hearts will be strong,” I said to my neighbor Jim. “Finally,” he said.<\/p>\n

Other news:\u00a0 My house, and home for 40 years, sits atop a huge blob of TCE spilled by General Mills researchers during 1940’s-1970’s.\u00a0 Can you hear the property values plummeting?\u00a0 Testing, mitigation, more testing, and class action lawsuit are part of my days.\u00a0 Charlie is overseeing mitigation efforts.\u00a0 I am driving lawyers and PCA nuts with questions, and the PCA is driving me nuts with non-answers.\u00a0 I like the lawyers better, probably because we are on the same side and (maybe thus) they answer my questions. \u00a0 As is so often the case, thank heavens for Charlie.<\/p>\n

Latest issue of Down East Magazine<\/strong> features FOG, a new Rockland restaurant. Could this just be additional evidence of Rockland’s niftiness?\u00a0 Last Spring Down East<\/strong> featured the very good, new breakfast+ place,\u00a0 HOME KITCHEN CAFE (not the previously, wrongly named Good Home Cooking, than you, Scott, though as you smoothly point out, not a bad name for a breakfast treat) which is an effort-of-the-heart of the nifty people who always “made” RB t-shirts which is the reason I am searching for new t-shirt makers — well, with Charlie’s help.\u00a0 He draws the rose.\u00a0 One saving grace of\u00a0 RB’s former t-shirt makers new venture is their special attention to both cinnamon rolls and oatmeal.\u00a0 You know you’re getting old when the breakfast restaurant survey switches from finding the best cinnamon roll to finding the best oatmeal, and nirvana may be finding both in one place.<\/p>\n

Keep those book suggestions coming, folks.\u00a0 RB is so much better for being a public display of a group mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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