Book Talk by the Sea

This week kicks off a series of posts spotlighting some of the books featured on this year's Maine Student Book Award list. To discover...

If you find her, beware. If you find her, be keen. She'll sing you into madness or grant you one dream. Secrets she knows, sorrow she...

Pride Month is a wonderful time to take a closer look at some of the narratives by LGBTQIA+ authors and illustrators that share both a...

Every form of art or genre of literature has its benefits, its way of conveying something that perhaps could not be done so well through...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, which the National Alliance on Mental Illness describes as an opportunity to "fight stigma, provide...

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Black History Month, as a recognized annual celebration, ends on February 28th, but thankfully none...

The goat. The goat was in his heart, too. Seemingly, the heart could hold an untold amount of things—letters and people and goats and...

Readers, what do you do when a series comes to an end? How do you feel? Where do you turn next in the altered literary landscape?...

Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief Years ago, before my father died, he asked if I would like to have the letters his...

It's almost Halloween, and there's nothing scarier than vampires to haunt the pages of a graphic novel... or is there? Bree Paulsen's...

A question for our times: what kind of literature was produced during the COVID-19 pandemic? While many of the books published in the...

Librarian confession: One Hundred Years of Solitude was one of those books that I remember from high school with a shudder, no doubt...

"We had been through turmoil and upheaval, a national crisis that rocked our confidence and made us question our priorities, but once all...

Yes, Austentatious is a word. In the publishing world at least. There are countless "classic" writers around the world, revered for...

I remember once reading an interview by author Kate Morton in which she shared, "I love stories in which the house is more than a...

"These ordinary days are delightful; they are what our lives are made of, like arches on a bridge." Can the words of a writer make us see...

Having relished Raynor Winn's memoir The Salt Path, which details her trek along the 630-mile South West Coast Path in England with her...

"Sometimes I think of the unbroken line of women, all of the mothers, that ends finally with me—the whole of them wielding forms and...

"'Never' has come to stay. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things...

Graphic novels as a form might be associated more heavily with action and comedy than with emotion, but some recent additions to our...