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Newsletter #100

July 25, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Pond

Pond

by Claire-Louise Bennett

What happens in Pond? Almost nothing; less than nothing, you're tempted to say. The smart young Irish woman who narrates Bennett's debut novel has zero ambition, but she tells herself, "if you don't d... (Tom)

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Sea Change

by Frank Viva

MADE-UP

Cold ocean waves. Fried tongue and onions for dinner. Up at 4:30 in the morning to shovel lobster chum into a bucket. "You'll love it!" Eliot's mom promises while bundling him off to spend a summer wi... (Tom)

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The Soul of an Octopus

by Sy Montgomery

TRUE

I like to use audiobooks to catch up with books that everyone else has been reading, and lately I've been catching up with The Soul of an Octopus, a surprise hit from last year (and National Book Awar... (Tom)

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