Jason Brown’s new powerful short-story collection, and recipies from Portland food writer and culinary instructor Vanessa Seder.
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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The best books in 2024? These Mainers should know.
Stephen King, Tess Gerritsen, Richard Ford and Monica Wood are among those who shared their favorite books of the year.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘A Life in the Garden’ and ‘Bitter Passage’
Barbara Damrosh’s latest book takes a personally involved approach to gardening, and Geoffrey Bates’ gritty cop drama/murder mystery set in a cold Maine winter.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Mother Tongue’
Dana Wilde wraps up his column with Jim Bishop’s quintessentially skillful, insightful Maine postwar poetry.
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A Bowdoin professor collects his thoughts on the Black American experience
Anthony Walton’s ‘The End of Respectability’ features a dozen essays, written over time, with his observations on race in this country.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Busy Body’ and ‘Patchwork Quilt Murder’
A timely, classic Agatha Christie-style mystery, and the 30th book in the Lucy Stone Mystery series.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Tell Me Everything’ and ‘The Maine Standard’
A new novel from Elizabeth Strout featuring three popular characters, and a collection of poems, photographs and stories contributed by Mainers.
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OFF RADAR: ‘The Cliffs’
This book starts out with a gothic feel, then steadily shifts its footing to a fairly typical contemporary depiction of the main character’s chaotic emotional life.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Space Between You and Me’ and ‘Oxbow Island Gang: Summer Bats’
A debut young-adult romance novel by Julie True Kingsley, and the last book in the ‘Oxbow Island Gang’ series.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats’ and ‘Hard Line’
The first volume in the “The Boy Spies of Maine” series by Jeffrey Hope, and the last book in the popular Jack McMorrow mystery series by Gerry Boyle.