In ‘Winterland,’ Maine gardener Cathy Rees argues that if your garden shines in the snowy season, imagine how great it will look in spring, summer and fall.
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inBooks, Food & Dining, Maine Authors, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: New book suggests you design your garden for the unlikeliest of seasons – winter
In ‘Winterland,’ Maine gardener Cathy Rees argues that if your garden shines in the snowy season, imagine how great it will look in spring, summer and fall.
advertisement
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘House Museum’ by Mike Bove
Poetry as a reality check
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Gary Paulsen, celebrated children’s author, dies at 82
Paulsen, known best for his ‘Hatchet’ novels, was a three-time finalist for the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World
Fiona Hill, a nobody to Trump and Putin, saw into them both
Her new book, ‘There Is Nothing for You Here,’ offers a sober, and alarming, portrait of the 45th U.S. president.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors, Uncategorized
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Oslo, Maine: A Novel’ and ‘Historic Taverns and Tea Rooms in Maine’
A heart-rendering, complex tale of fractured families, and the story of how Maine’s taverns and tea rooms influenced society, economics and politics for nearly 300 years
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News
Tanzanian writer awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and recently retired as a professor at the University of Kent in England.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors, Uncategorized
OFF RADAR: ‘Green Grass’
The book’s no-nonsense, sometimes airy prose to some extent underemphasizes the sordid violence it details.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Case of the Missing Cattle’ and ‘The Lowering Days’
A fast-paced frontier whodunit and a first novel that shows polish and promise for the author
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
Author Event: Kay Tobler Liss
New novel ‘The Last Resort’ explores themes of environmental and social justice