Category Archives: Bookish Adventures
The importance of independent bookstores
In a recent interview with PBS, Ann Patchett, bestselling author of books like Bel Canto, State of Wonder and the just-released novel Commonwealth, discussed her involvement with Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore in Nashville. (The entire interview is great, but skip ahead to about 5:18 to hear specifically about the store.) When asked why independent bookstores […]
The serendipity of Stephen King (how I finally found ‘The Shining’)
3 more bookstores to visit in Maine this summer
A whirlwind bookish adventure in Bath, city of readers
3 essential Maine bookshops for summer road-trippin’
Beaches, boardwalks, and bargain books
Books and weekend adventures in Rockland
For our latest bookish adventure, we took the advice of one of Twice Sold Tales’ readers and went up to Rockland. This reader had gotten in touch with me after I posted my piece about the train leaving us there one autumn day. He suggested a few bookshops, stores, and restaurants where we should go […]
Paradise lost and found – the joy of Lippincott Books
A World of Possibility at the Curtis Memorial Library
To share the wonders of Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, I must begin at the beginning. Not the very beginning of the library itself (which was built in 1904 and then renovated and expanded in 1999), but the first time I happened upon it, and the circumstances under which I found myself wandering amongst its […]