\nFair Trade Coffee person #2 chose Christopher McDougall\u2019s Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen<\/strong> because he runs (and bikes) and loves Mexico and wants to know more about Copper Canyon;<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Fig. #69. This is a day when we read our books, read our books, read our books. This is a day when we read our books that Roseledge had waiting for us.<\/p><\/div>\n
Alpine sorrel Plant person chose The Book Thief by Markus Suzak and The Zookeeper\u2019s Wife by Diane Ackerman<\/strong> because she is currently reading about Jews in World War II Germany and maybe because she is Swiss. (Roseledge Books loved and so suggested Bernd Heinrich\u2019s The Snoring Bird<\/strong> for biology and Germany, then Maine life.) Fig. #70. This is the place we read our books, read our books, read our books. This isthe place we read our books, after we've been to Roseledge. (To be sung to a tune of your choice.) <\/p><\/div>\n So many books; so many reasons to choose; so much fun finding the right book for the right person at the right time.\u00a0 And then come the conversations.\u00a0 Hard to ask for more than that.<\/p>\n Happy New Year, you all. Think upright and right books with me to shorten the time until Roseledge Books opens and blossoms again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christmas cheer prevailed as Charlie and I and our almost-family neighbors had our biennial holiday romp at our almost-neighborhood bookstore yesterday. Everybody got a book (Thanks, moms), then retired to the Finnish Bistro across the street for really-good goodies and … Continue reading
\nMath\/Science researcher son chose Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth<\/strong> by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou because he has always loved comics, especially Spiderman, and now he is also cutting edge. (VQR<\/strong> person noted that one of her articles was also \u201cgraphic,\u201c so she, too, is cutting edge.)
\nTree ecology person chose Everett, Daniel. Don\u2019t Sleep; There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle <\/strong>because he will be on a teaching spree there come spring and the short story book (his usual favorite) was too heavy. (Roseledge Books also suggested Redmond O\u2019Hanlon\u2019s In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon<\/strong>, but he may have already read it as his family may have recommended it to RB.)
\nDancer\/choreographer person chose Karin Fossum\u2019s The Indian Bride<\/strong> for quality diversion, but exchanged it for another title by same author because this one was in tested book pile in Maine and she can get it next year; also considered Steig Larsson.
\nRoseledge Books decider and mom chose Steig Larsson\u2019s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/strong> because North Atlantic murder mysteries are as close to big sellers as Roseledge Books gets, and I haven\u2019t read this author yet. Alpine sorrel plant person liked Steig Larsson\u2019s first two and intends to read newly published, hardcover-only third.
\nI\u2019d never heard of Jarkko Sipila\u2019s Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall<\/strong>, but it won the 2009 Finish Crime Fiction of the Year Award and my almost-neighborhood bookstore usually has unusual and good choices. I also bought it to review for Roseledge Books, see above. And Roseledge Books will have Umberto Eco\u2019s An Infinity of Lists<\/strong> as soon as this beauty is out in paperback. I don\u2019t think you have to be weird to love lists and catalogues and other rosters filled with possibilities, but it probably doesn\u2019t hurt.
\nRoseledge Boks advisor and mom was busy reading for two book clubs: Kathryn Stockett\u2019s The Help<\/strong> and Joyce Carol Oates\u2019 Little Bird of Heaven<\/strong>. I haven\u2019t read either, but rest assured; she will advise.<\/p>\n![\"Fig.](\"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/rosefy2.jpg\")
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