{"id":174,"date":"2009-06-14T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T22:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-07-31T12:06:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:06:57","slug":"first-things-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"FIRST THINGS FIRST"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe the rain came to prevent more dawdling, maybe not; but there must be a reason behind the continuing wet. Rain dampens, so to speak, any enthusiasm for morning coffee on the deck, so with thermos I’ve moved inside to ready Roseledge Book’s overdue, first summer book order.<\/p>\n

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Fig. #55. I'm looking out the side\/front windows as you walk up the Sea Street hill to Roseledge Books. Hurry up. <\/p><\/div>\n

I love browsing lists and drawing, often wrong, conclusions.\u00a0 Based on the following list, what do you think is the purpose of Roseledge Books?
\nAczel, Amir.\u00a0 The Jesuit and the Skull<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Atkinson, Kate.\u00a0 One Good Turn: A Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Barbery, Muriel.\u00a0 The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Barcott, Bruce.\u00a0 The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird<\/a><\/p>\n

Gill, Bartholomew.\u00a0 The Death of A Joyce Scholar<\/a>\"\"
\nBennett, Alan.\u00a0 The Uncommon Reader: A Novella<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Berenson, Alex.\u00a0 The Ghost War<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Black, Cara.\u00a0 Murder in Belleville<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Black, Cara.\u00a0 Murder in the Sentier<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Box, C.J.\u00a0 Open Season (A Joe Pickett Novel)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Box, C.J.\u00a0 Blood Trail (A Joe Pickett Novel)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Braestrup, Kate.\u00a0 Here If You Need Me: A True Story<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Brenner, Marie.\u00a0 Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Brooks, Geraldine.\u00a0 People of the Book: A Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Burleigh, Nina.\u00a0 Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Chercover, Sean.\u00a0 Big City, Bad Blood<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Childs, Craig.\u00a0 House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest<\/a>\"\"
\nChilds, Laura.\u00a0 Eggs in Purgatory: A Cackleberry Club Mystery (Cackleberry Club Mysteries)<\/a>\"\"
\nClarke, Brock.\u00a0 An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Collins, James.\u00a0 Beginner’s Greek: A Novel<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Connelly, Michael.\u00a0 The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch)<\/a>\"\"
\nCrowley, Roger.\u00a0 Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Disher, Garry.\u00a0 Chain of Evidence<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Disher, Garry.\u00a0 Kittyhawk Down<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Disher, Garry.\u00a0 Snapshot (Inspector Hal Challis)<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Dodd, Christina.\u00a0 Danger in a Red Dress<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Drabble, Margaret.\u00a0 The Sea Lady<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

Thus ends First Order, Part 1, A-D.\u00a0\u00a0 New mystery series to try, another look at an old college hero (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin), seafaring tales, Maine books,\u00a0 explorations or discoveries, authors or books that sounded interesting in reviews or interviews — all sound good to me.\u00a0 But to what Roseledge Books purpose?<\/p>\n

First Order, Part 2 coming soon.<\/p>\n

Webcam is on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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