‘Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty’ will be out in September.
Books
Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Monty Python skit inspires latest book by Maine children’s author Julie Falatko
The South Portland author’s latest book, ‘Help Wanted: One Rooster,’ depicts a struggling farm and the farm’s search for a rooster to help make things right. Plus a few other Maine reads for your kids this summer.
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A small-town Maine librarian’s obsessions keep the pages turning
Hilarity – and chills – ensue in Portland writer Sarah Braunstein’s second novel, ‘Bad Animals.’
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Kate Meader’ and ‘Good Dog, Bad Cop’
Historical fiction at its best with a carefully sculpted plot and wholly believable and endearing characters, and fourth cop crime mystery in the K Team series.
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Pulitzer-winning journalist made sure to get Maine right in new crime novel
Tom Ricks, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has a home on Deer Isle, set the mystery ‘Everyone Knows But You’ in coastal Maine.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Unleashed and Other Poems’
Page-long journeys from Thomas R. Moore
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See who won this year’s Maine Literary Awards
The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance gave out the annual awards Thursday at a ceremony in Rockport.
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Jack McMorrow’s Maine mystery-solving days are numbered
Author and former Maine newspaper reporter Gerry Boyle has decided to end his Jack McMorrow series after 31 years and 14 books. The last one, ‘Hard Line,’ goes on sale June 11.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Sparrow Being Sparrow’ and ‘Trapped: Deep Waters, Darker Secrets’
A charming story for middle-grade readers and a debut coming-of-age mystery are this week’s reviews.
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Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
The Canadian author was revered for her thoughtful characters and her ability to ‘accommodate an entire epic complexity …. in just a few short pages.’ She was admired without apparent envy, placed by the likes of Jonathan Franzen, John Updike and Cynthia Ozick at the very top of the pantheon.