{"id":890,"date":"2011-10-27T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2011-10-27T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T16:18:40","slug":"roseledge-books-readers-are-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"ROSELEDGE BOOKS’ READERS ARE READY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda Knox was freed from an Italian jail last week. \u201cWhew,\u201d said a friend and RB reader who knew to be worried after reading Donna Leon\u2019s mysteries<\/strong> set in Venice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho’s surprised about the prescription drug shortage?\u201d asked a medical professional and RB reader who recently read Catherine Coulter\u2019s <\/strong>latest paperback thriller, Whiplash<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Clearly, these RB readers are ready for whatever comes next. \u201cWhat do they read to be thus ready?\u201d you ask, and isn\u2019t that the question. What they read and why and what they \u201cget\u201d from doing so, I don\u2019t know. But I do know what they choose from RB and sometimes the following summer I find out if the choice was good — or not.<\/p>\n

In that spirit, here is a list of the books some August (august?) Roseledge Books readers chose last summer. What any one reader got from any one read is next summer\u2018s report. Why I chose them for RB comes in (maybe) the next post<\/p>\n

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Are lists and piles made of building blocks? Do big ones matter more? Why?<\/p><\/div>\n

Abigail Adams <\/strong>by Woody Horton<\/p>\n

The Beekeeper\u2019s Apprentice<\/strong> by Laurie King
\nThe Brothers Gardener<\/strong> by Andrea Wulf
\nThe Cruelist Month<\/strong> by Louise Penny
\nThe Canon<\/strong> by Natalie Ainger
\nDogtown<\/strong> by Elyssa East
\nDracula<\/strong> by Bram Stoker
\nFirewall<\/strong> by Henning Mankell
\nFrankie\u2019s Place<\/strong> by Jim Sterba
\nGreenland<\/strong> by Gretel Erlich
\nThe Hard Way<\/strong> by Lee Child
\nHouse of Rain<\/strong> by Craig Childs
\nHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe<\/strong> by Charles Yu
\nIslands in Time<\/strong> by Philip Conkling
\nJohn James Audubon<\/strong> by Richard Rhodes
\nLasso the Wind<\/strong> by Timothy Egan
\nLast Places<\/strong> by Lawrence Millman
\nThe Lobster Coast of Maine<\/strong> by Colin Woodard
\nThe Long Ships<\/strong> by Frans Bengtsson
\nThe Lost City of Z<\/strong> by David Grann
\nMajor Pettigrew\u2019s Last Stand<\/strong> by Helen Simonson
\nOld Books and Rare Friends<\/strong> by Madeline Stern and Leona Rostenberg
\nOn [Monhegan] Island<\/strong>
\nOppenheimer<\/strong> by Kai Bird
\nThe Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh<\/strong> by Linda Colley
\nOutlander<\/strong> by Diana Gabaldon
\nPictures at an Exhibition<\/strong> by Sara Houghteling
\nThe Snoring Bird<\/strong> by Bernd Heinrich
\nSouth Sea Tales<\/strong> by Robert Louis Stevenson
\nThe Swan Thieves<\/strong> by Elizabeth Kostkova
\nThat Old Cape Magic<\/strong> by Richard Russo
\nTravels With Herodotus<\/strong> by Ryszard Kapucinski
\nVoices<\/strong> by Arnaulder Indridason
\nWorking at the Olsons<\/strong> by Andrew Wyeth<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why, but this variety of titles coupled with the variety of minds choosing them surely indicates that\u00a0 Roseledge Books’ readers are ready for whatever is next, which is a good thing because too many people without a clue seem to be too much with us.<\/p>\n

An aside<\/strong>:\u00a0 Listing books by title makes little sense, but acknowledges that the NYT Best Seller Lists and the mid-size jobber I frequent, both of whom\u00a0 do so, may know something I don’t.\u00a0\u00a0 I prefer listing books by the author’s name; then I can link past and future events of note to idea junkies and thereby add to long-term building blocks\u00a0 of memory well into my dotage which is a good thing because remembering is easier than checking reference sources with only one hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amanda Knox was freed from an Italian jail last week. \u201cWhew,\u201d said a friend and RB reader who knew to be worried after reading Donna Leon\u2019s mysteries set in Venice. \u201cWho’s surprised about the prescription drug shortage?\u201d asked a medical … 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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roseledgebooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}