This past year, my husband and I decided to focus on reading books set in Maine, by Maine authors or both. While we didn't get to nearly all of them, we did read a dozen. Of them, only one was a DNF--did not finish--for me: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. My husband loved it. Otherwise, we handed … [Read more...] about Favorite Books Set in Maine
Bookstores
14 Independent Bookstores in Southern Maine That Make Browsing Books Feel Like a Mini Adventure
After Amazon and Barnes and Noble took over the book-buying machine, you would have thought that independent bookstores would all be gone by now. You would be wrong. Here in Kennebunk, we have a brand-new bookstore called Octopus Bookshop. Anyway, it got me thinking about other independent … [Read more...] about 14 Independent Bookstores in Southern Maine That Make Browsing Books Feel Like a Mini Adventure

