{"id":1912,"date":"2014-07-27T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:25:10","slug":"july-the-bluest-blues-the-best-book-ever-and-more-perfect-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"JULY: THE BLUEST BLUES, THE BEST BOOK EVER AND MORE PERFECT DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aarrghhh!<\/strong> Plagiarism makes me crazy and again, it is in the news<\/a>.\u00a0 Now it’s a Montana senator whose major contribution to his War College Master’s paper apparently was to re-arrange whole ideas from a few worthy papers written by others, mostly available\u00a0 on the Internet. He didn’t even defend his choice of people to steal from or explain why he chose those particular papers.\u00a0 He just copied from them, word-for-word with no or inadequate citations. \u00a0 What is wrong with these people? At least crediting someone else makes you look as if you are one of the band. Not crediting people, especially with ubiquitous Internet access, is just dumb, really dumb, and dishonorable.\u00a0 Maybe he bought the paper and didn’t know.\u00a0 Still dumb.<\/p>\n

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The much more important and very good news is that Roseledge Books’ first two bestsellers<\/strong> have arrived: Food Rules by Michael Pollan, with illustrations by wonderful Maira Kalman<\/strong> and Coaster Days by Roy Meservey.<\/strong>\u00a0 Each is a great gift book.\u00a0 Roy Meservey’s journal with pictures of Tenants Harbor during its coaster-building heyday is great for orienting people to the village from the harbor.\u00a0 Hark! A reason to row the dinghy.\u00a0\u00a0 AND Roy Meservey built Roseledge.\u00a0 Michael Pollan’s three principles in seven words — Eat food; \/ Not too much; \/ Mostly plants. — are expanded through useful rules and complimented by Maira Kalman’s colorful pictures of the unexpected.<\/p>\n

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When does a breeze turn into wind?\u00a0 For\u00a0 the answer, visit Tenants Harbor this summer.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 As far as umbrellas staying upright and unbroken, the score is wind 1; umbrella 0.\u00a0 New, VERY blue umbrella goes up tomorrow, if a storm is not blowing through.\u00a0 With the bats away and dying of white fungus the wind keeps the bugs away and porch wine events much more pleasant.\u00a0 I tried to push “Tenants Harbor tapas” with artisan crackers topped by whatever the Produce Lady has, including the just-available native blueberries with RediWhip to hold them on the cracker.\u00a0 Only the skunk (white cheddar) cheese was a go.\u00a0 Big wusses.\u00a0 And wind or no, we had lunch and a very good time on\u00a0 Miller’s Lobster Wharf which is off 73 and OPEN DAILY.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 This Miller’s wharf which is on Wheeler’s Bay\u00a0 is not to be confused with Cod End which is on a wharf in Tenants Harbor and CLOSED,<\/strong> and currently for sale by a different Miller family.<\/p>\n

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I am reading and loving\u00a0 Errol Morris’ Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography<\/strong> and it is absolutely the best book ever, well at least until the next best book.\u00a0 I am only half way through the first essay which addresses Susan Sontag’s mention of two pictures Roger Fenton took\u00a0 during the Crimean War of 1855.\u00a0\u00a0 They are both of a stretch of road called The Valley of the Shadow of Death; one has cannonballs in the road, the other does not.\u00a0 Filmmaker Morris’ question is which came first and then, why do you think so? The book blurb calls it part detective story and part philosophical meditation; with the what and the why, I call it a search book.\u00a0 This would be a great gift book for the\u00a0 curious, for those who want to keep the conversation going, especially those who think they know the truth of a picture.\u00a0 The tactics, the sources, the dialogue, the observations are all part of it, and what you do with all of it makes the whole.\u00a0 It is so much fun to like a book this much.<\/p>\n

This post has run the gamut from least to most interesting of minds.\u00a0 Always good to end on a high note.<\/p>\n

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