We had a sensational response to our contest, with over 35 entries. Thanks to everyone who entered! To recap the contest, the winning entry went to the best single, complete sentence using all eight titles in the Pretty Little Liars series. (Wanted, Killer, Heartless, Unbelievable, Flawless, Wicked, Perfect, and Pretty Little Liars)
FARMINGTON - Lovecraft once wrote that “the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” Pshaw, I say! There are deep waters out there that need to be explored. Let’s make a case in point.
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Today, we’ll be featuring a debate between two experts on the so-called Digital Revolution in publishing, Genghis Khan, and our own Amy Graham.
In which two reading experts, our own Margaux DePue and Otto von Bismarck, the one time chancellor of a Germany unified by his own wily hand, vie with each other in the selection of summer reading suggestions.
We watch a disaster movie to see disasters of course, cities falling into the ocean, giant asteroids hitting National Landmarks, and so forth, and if a disaster movie delivers enough unthwarted asteroids and untimely seismic shifts, then everything else, credible dialogue, good acting, a plot, is all a plus.
FARMINGTON - On July 13 national bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will be coming to Farmington to share her sensational new Young Adult Fantasy, Falcon Quinn and The Black Mirror. The Falcon Quinn series mark a new chapter for the author as her prior books have been bestselling memoirs such as She’s Not There and acclaimed novels such as Getting in.
On Thursday, June 17, renowned local scholar Doug Walrath will be celebrating the release of his outstanding new book from Columbia University Press, Displacing The Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction. The book has gotten some outstanding national reviews, which you can find here.
Now when you’ve been working away literally for decades on a book of daunting breadth it only stands to reason that you would want to hold forth on your topic, and so we’ve put a few questions to Doug here.
This Thursday, May 20th that is, Downeast Editor Paul Doiron will be coming to Devaney Doak & Garrett Booksllers to discuss his new book, The Poacher’s Son, a terrific thriller about a Maine Game Warden whose woodsman father becomes a murder suspect on the run. The Warden is called in to help track down his father deep in the North woods.
Reasons for reading Fantasy novels are intrinsically bound to the actions they depict, escape from tyranny, the restoration of good through effort, the comfort of obscure fatalism, the transmutation of the ordinary to the profound. To succeed Fantasy novels must provide the reader what their characters lack, and that is freedom.
Welcome to the First annual Mrs. Cook’s Class ARC Review Project, in which Mrs. Cook’s 4th grade class at Cascade Brook School in Farmington read and reviewed ARCS (Advanced Reading Copies) of books which have not come out yet. The kids turned in a stupendous performance, as you can see below!
