Adult Books

Summer ! Being outside ! Cook-outs !

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 And all hail to Marjorie Standish and her down-home Maine recipes.  Marjorie was a local resident who was the longtime food columnist for the Maine Sunday Telegram.  Her two books of collected recipes – Cooking Down East and Keep Cooking – The Maine Way – are both available to borrow from the Gardiner Public Library. Check out her delicious and classic recipes for:                 Melt-in-your-mouth blueberry cake                 Baked beans                 Barbecued chicken                 Dilled string beans                 Dump bars                 Baked stuffed lobster Now those would make a great cookout meal !

Summer Reads

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Summer reading allows us to escape the dreariness of winter while allowing us to enjoy the sun and imagine ourselves in another setting.  Some new items at the Gardiner Public Library that folks may enjoy this summer are: Still life with bread crumbs by Anna Quindlen.  Broken by city life, an aging woman moves to a small cabin the middle of nowhere where she finds peace, inspiration, and the unexpected love of a husky roofer 30 years her junior. Cell by Robin Cook.  This medical thriller is about the smartphone’s new role in medicine – and will both please and …

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Books I just couldn’t put down….

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We have all had them in our hands.  We have all had trouble putting them down.  They are books that get us so wrapped up in them that we just can’t put them downuntil we finish!  Here are a few that had me in their hooks.  What books did the same to you? And then there were none by Agatha Christie 10 strangers invited to an isolated island and then stranded there.  One killer slowly eliminating them one by one.  I got so wild by the fifth murder that I couldn’t stand it anymore and flipped to the end.  I …

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Gardening in Gardiner

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Winters in Maine are long, but doesn’t this winter seem as if it will never end?  One hopeful sign is that the sunlight appears to be warmer and the days, just a bit longer.  Is anyone dreaming of spring? Maybe the Gardiner Public library can help you with your dreams.  We have a great collection of gardening books and some even have instructions about indoor gardening, a great way to get a jump start on your outside living. A classic title is The Edible Garden by Peggy Hardigree.  Why not set up an indoor herb garden so that your meals …

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New YA Books!

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I decided to touch upon some new Young Adult books that I am very excited about that have just come out or are due to be released. The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie HalseAnderson’s new book. Well known for writing “Speak”, Kirkus Reviews writes, “Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, are bright, sarcastic loners plagued by agonizing memories that won’t quite stay repressed, despite their best efforts. Hayley meets, bantering boyfriend, Finn, who points some things out to Hayley in her life. Anderson is sensitive to many problems – physical recovery, grief, panic attacks and other tendencies that veterans …

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Biography anyone???

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  Maybe it’s the tendency to take stock at the end of the year, but when I was approached about writing this week’s blog my mind immediately jumped to biographies.  I went to that section of the library to see what titles would jump out at me.  I stopped after the first six.  Now I’m not saying these are “must reads”.  I’m just saying that I enjoyed reading these, they have stuck with me as a good read, and consequently I have often recommended them to others.  The subjects span genres and here’s what I like about each one: The …

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