661 Congress Street, Portland, ME

Green Hand is the kind of throwback second-hand bookshop you yearn to find, where new books sit side-by-side with old-school pulp paperbacks in every row, aisle, stack, and nook in a long tangle of a one-room shop. It’s the kind of place where you should ideally set aside more than an hour to explore, a whole afternoon if you’re ambitious. I mean, as the good doctor Hunter S Thompson said, “Anything worth doing is worth doing right,” right? Well, I did it wrong and only gave the shop a quick half hour, but it was enough to fall in love.