Must-Read Maine

perennialreader: Saw the movie-didn't get it. Read the book-didn't get it. Saw the movie again-got it!

Drapetsona: Maybe it's the only book about Maine I ever read. But it is one of my all-time favourites, Irving's best book, and very feministic (if this ever can be said about a male writer). - I don't like the film at all. There's everything missing what makes the book great.

MaureenRoy: This horror novel is set in Maine. It's so scary that I decided to stop reading Stephen King novels.

MaureenRoy: I first found and read this book when I started volunteer work on the LT Sustainability group. It's a fascinating memoir from a prewar era (WWII).

Marissa_Doyle: In prose that verges on poetry, McCloskey boils the essence of a Maine summer into this picture book.

megbmore: Maine author.

lorsomething: Maine author, Maine setting. So very funny. Poignant, too. But so funny.

vangogan: Maine author, writer of historical novels, some of which take place in Maine

vwinsloe: Author is a professor of history who was born, raised and lives in Maine.

Marissa_Doyle: Maine author, Maine setting, and both are delightful.

captainsunbeam: Most of the book takes place in a motel on the coast of Maine.

CurrerBell: Mary Ellen Chase is the successor to Sarah Orne Jewett, whom Chase met when a child and who inspired Chase to a literary life. "The Edge of Darkness" resembles "The Country of the Pointed Firs" as well as Elizabeth Stroud's "Olive Kitteridge" in being a collection of stories/vignettes linked together by a common character (in "Pointed Firs," Almira Todd; in "Edge," the deceased village matriarch; and in "Olive Kitteridge," of course, Olive herself). My favorite of Chase's works, of which I've read quite a number.

JalenV: I have loved this book since I was eight years old. I sometimes reread it around Christmas as a feel-good story.

EllenO.Bender: Arthur lives in Canton, Maine, and is involved in preserving lands in Maine.

mldg: Sailing the coast of Maine.

mldg: Katherine S. White was an editor for the New Yorker. She and her husband, E. B. White gardened in Maine.