Rodrigo Garcia’s ‘Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes’ takes readers into the private grieving for a public man.
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‘Dream Girl’ turns mundane to macabre
In Laura Lippman’s 25th novel, a bedridden novelist is haunted by a woman who claims to be one of his characters.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’
Nonesuch Books’ 10 top-selling hardcover and paperbacks in fiction and nonfiction.
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A famous father casts shadows over painful memoir
In ‘Poetic License,’ the daughter of poet Richard Eberhart works to reconcile the love and loathing he inspired.
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Bedside table: ‘Middlemarch’ – because they’re called classics for a reason
“Members of our College Club Book Review have all just read ‘Middlemarch,’ a historic novel by a woman (Mary Ann Evans) many years ahead of her time in England, who herself had to pose as a male – George Eliot was her pen name – to get her novels published. (The book was published in […]
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Children’s book celebrates the color brown in all its glory
‘Magnificent Homespun Brown’ is as joyful as the confident little girls it depicts.
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Bedside Table: Many perspectives on Maine in these books
“I have two books on my bedside table, and, no coincidence, both are about Maine. As a retired physician who spent my career on the West Coast I have returned back East and relocated from Portland (OR) to Portland (ME). Knowing little of the rich history of the District and then the State […]
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Fresh out of medical school, they volunteered to help battle the coronavirus pandemic
What six med school graduates saw as the coronavirus tore through New York hospitals.
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Best-sellers: What Mainers are buying at local bookstores
FICTION Hardcover 1. “The Damage,” by Caitlin Wahrer (Pamela Dorman Books) 2. “Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Viking) 3. “Sooley,” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 4. “The Maidens,” by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books) 5. “Malibu Rising,” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine) 6. “The Other Black Girl,” by Zakiya Dalila Harris (Atria) 7. “The Hill We Climb,” […]
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Bedside table: Reader, go West
Editor’s Note: Joyce Berk sent us her book selection in April, when most of us still weren’t getting out much. That’s changed, as the pandemic in Maine has waned, but a good book is a good book whenever you read it. “The book I’m reading is ‘Riders of the Purple Sage,’ by Zane Grey. It’s […]
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