A new Andy Carpenter mystery, and a roadside tour of the Maine’s ‘history, culture, food, funk and oddities’
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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A history of books in wartime – and of unexpected book-burners
Accounts from Andrew Pettegree’s ‘The Book at War’ will make you wonder what role books are playing in current conflicts.
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Review: Teenage twins go missing in a coastal Maine town, putting its police chief to the test
Writer Albert Waitt’s murder mystery, ‘The Ruins of Woodman’s Village,’ paints a picture of a small town, biases and all.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Christmas Mittens Murder’ and ‘The Garden Maker’s Book of Wonder’
A trio of short murder mystery novellas just in time for Christmas, and how to have fun and find peace in your garden no matter how big or small
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AUTHOR EVENT: Betty Nadine Thomas
Hallowell artist and poet releases “Unleashed: Poems & Drawings”
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OFF RADAR: ‘With Little Light and Sometimes None at All: poems’
Richard Foerster’s collection of his highly personal poems is a book of moments, in keeping with much of his previous work.
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Book about Maine’s Malaga Island falls short in Booker Prize contest
Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’ was also nominated for a National Book Award.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Narrow Seas’ and ‘When the Island Had Fish’
The 11th volume in Harpswell author James Nelson’s magnificent “Norsemen Saga,” and author and essayist Janna Malamud Smith’s fascinating study of Vinalhaven
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British writer A.S. Byatt, author of the novel ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
‘Possession,’ published in 1990, follows 2 modern-day academics investigating the lives of a pair of Victorian poets. It won the prestigious Booker Prize that year and was adapted as a 2002 film.
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Malaga Island-inspired ‘This Other Eden’ is fiction; critics say it revives harmful myths
Paul Harding says his latest novel, up for major awards, is not meant to be historically accurate. But archivists and descendants believe it badly invites inaccurate depictions of the Maine island’s mistreated residents.