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Newsletter #102

August 15, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Imagine Me Gone

Imagine Me Gone

by Adam Haslett

MADE-UP

"I had the sense," Celia, the only daughter in the troubled family in Imagine Me Gone, thinks on seeing an unnamed painted portrait in a museum, "that this person had been alive." That is the sense yo... (Tom)

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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

by Chrissie Hynde

TRUE

I'm still a little mad at Dwight Garner. I've loved the Pretenders almost as long as I've listened to records, but when Garner, usually my favorite New York Times reviewer, panned Hynde's memoir as "s... (Tom)

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The Trouble with Twins

by Kathryn Siebel

MADE-UP

A mother narrates a tale to her young daughter of twin sisters named Arabella and Henrietta Osgood. From birth, Arabella has always been more beautiful and bubbly than her serious and quiet sister. De... (Karlyn)

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