\nGeneral books sometimes include Monhegan, for example Colin Woodard\u2019s Lobster Coast of Maine<\/strong> and Arnold Skolnick\u2019s Paintings of Maine.<\/strong>
\nIsland living is special. Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s Stern Man<\/strong> and Elizabeth Ogilvie\u2019s Tide Trilogy<\/strong> are novels set on islands. Eva Murray\u2019s Well Out to Sea <\/strong>chronicles her life on an island, in this case Matinicus.
\nT.J. Stiles\u2019 The First Tycoon<\/strong> is a fat biography about Commodore Vanderbilt, who, among things, sailed — maybe near Monhegan.\u00a0 Fat is a lovely luxury when the time is right.
\nElizabeth Kostkova\u2019s The Swan Thieves<\/strong> is a fat novel about art (among other things) which (among other things) is a favorite pastime on Monhegan.
\nThere are more possibilities waiting for you when you stop by.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Wildflowers, wild seas, perchable rocks and a fat book to read.<\/p><\/div>\n
Twice this summer people returned to RB after big-time sailing adventures. One couple sailed around the world in five of the last ten years and the other circled the Atlantic coasts these past three years. I loved that they came back, but now I don\u2018t recall what kinds of books they chose, except to say that no one chose a sailing chronicle, though one did take a book about islands. I\u2019m currently reading Paul Garrison\u2019s The Sea Hunter<\/strong> because I know way too little about boats, boating, and big water. It\u2019s a thriller, includes a killphin (you\u2019ll have to read it to find out), and the heroes are sailing to Camden, ME from the Caribbean, which is exciting because that is virtually next door to Tenants Harbor, home of RB. (You may recall the ongoing game of trying to figure out how many steps between any book and TH.)<\/p>\n One more week in Paradise. Weather\u2019s perfect: sunny days, breezy late afternoons, cool nights. There\u2019s still time. A hornet nearly committed suicide in my glass of wine, but a goodheart tipped it out and the hornet rose and looked confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two readers came by on their way to Monhegan and bought books to read while there. This suggests a worthy potential-client pool to tap because a lot of people catch the Monhegan ferry in Port Clyde (4 miles further than … Continue reading