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What to read while in . . . When I'm vacationing in a new place, I make it a point to read books by local authors with local settings. It gives me a different window on the local culture, and it gives me an insider's thrill to visit a landmark and think, "Yeah, this is where that scene happened...

Here are the American Library Association's Notable Books in fiction for 2005: I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek Dybek connects gently ironic stories of growing up and getting out in Polish American Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi The...

More Than You Know , by Beth Gutcheon Highly recommended! With the wisdom of age, Hannah looks back to her seventeenth summer, spent in Dundee, Maine, her family's ancestral home. The anguished events of Hannah's summer--chafing under the suspicious, dissatisfied eye of her stepmother...

I'm going to steal a thread idea from another book forum I recently visited. I'm wondering what "book destinations" folks have visited--pilgrimages to the homes/graves of favorite authors? To the scenes of favorite novels? A couple of years ago, I visited the village founded in the 1840s by...

I recently read Trezza Azzopardi's Remember Me . One of those books that draws you into a mesmerizing sense of being within a single character's life experience. It struck me--if I may make a cross-Atlantic leap--as having similarities to Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping . Both follow a girl's...

I recently read Beth Gutcheon's More than You Know --my first Gutcheon novel. It's a hard-to-categorize book--part coming-of-age, part romance, part ghost story. I very much enjoyed Gutcheon's multi-generational portrayal of a Maine fishing village. I also thought Gutcheon did a marvelous job...

Hello from Minnesota where, on April 1, the ice is nearly off the lakes, the crocuses are emerging, and our town just finished a "community read" of a book by a Minnesota author--Jon Hassler's Staggerford . My newly-formed book club will soon be discussing Beth Gutcheon's More than You Know ...