READ ME is a statewide summer reading program created by the Maine Humanities Council in partnership with the Maine State Library. We asked Maine’s own Paul Doiron, author of the popular Mike Bowditch series, to pick one non-fiction and one fiction book.
Fiction: River Talk by CB Anderson “…not just recognizable but relatable…the ways people in Maine actually live, now, today…”
Non-Fiction: Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly “…the familiar, the secret, the strange…see our shared environment as we’ve never seen it before…”
READ ME gets everyone reading the same books this summer. Borrow them from your library and read one or both. Join us for a book discussion led by Anna Rockwell at the Goodall Memorial Library, 952 Main St., Sanford, on Aug, 7 at 6:30 p.m.
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