As spring arrives to awaken our trees, fields and woodlands, it is leaving the new works of many authors sadly untouched. Think of a debut novelist whose life goal of publication took…
I have made my way over to the glade of Years many times to interview successive new Years. This time around, after I stepped forth from the portal and into the glade…
As I began preparations for the 2019 DDG Stocking Stuffer of the Year Award an urgent issue awaited me. This award, which for so many years was marked by a rigorous integrity…
FARMINGTON – I have known since I read his first adventure in 2015 that Pajama Night needed Mother Bruce. It must be. It was destined to be. And in 2019 it was!…
It is much easier to find young adult books set in Maine than it is to find books which feel like they really took place here. Julia Drake’s outstanding YA debut novel,…
Awareness of bias adds a subtle undercurrent of tension to one’s reading experience. In the case of As Many Nows As I Can Get, a YA debut by Shana Youngdahl which is…
Everything about Jeff Howatt speaks of endurance. A ninth generation Mainer, a long time Mt. Blue High School Math teacher, and a highly experienced Master Maine Guide and storyteller, Jeff brings all…
One of the books The Year 2019 drew our attention to during our interview with her in January was S.E. Grove’s The Waning Age. Given the highly exceptional imaginative qualities of her…
The exceptional quality of several picture books released recently found me possessed of the belief that we are living in a time of unique excellence. It is perhaps wise, however, to suspect…
With the Labyrinth of the Spirits, Carlos Ruiz Zafon has completed his four-book Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. The author, along with providing the fourth book, has also supplied a narrative edict.…