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Newsletter #114

November 7, 2016

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Du Iz Tak?

Du Iz Tak?

by Carson Ellis

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #11

"Du is tak?" What does that mean? "Ma nazoot." Huh?! What are these bugs saying about the green, growing thing before them? After a few readings of what looks like nonsense at first, I think you and y... (Tom)

Cover of Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

by Frances Wilson

TRUE

All I knew about Thomas De Quincey was opium: his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is often considered the first addiction memoir, and it made him a hero to Poe, Dostoevsky, and Borges. His life... (Tom)

Cover of Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight

by W. Stanley Moss

TRUE Phinney by Post #23

As wartime capers go, it can hardly get more daring and debonair than this one: the kidnapping of a Nazi general in occupied Crete by a team of local partisans and British commandos. One of the comman... (Tom)

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