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Newsletter #153

September 11, 2017

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet

Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet

by Sanae Ishida

MADE-UP Phinney by Post Kids Book 21

Those of us who loved the quirkily indomitable spirit of Ishida's first picture book, Little Kunoichi the Ninja Girl, will be glad to see Little Kunoichi return in a supporting role in the story of he... (Tom)

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Making Movies

by Sidney Lumet

TRUE Phinney by Post Book Book 33

Lumet's guide to filmmaking, published late in his remarkable career, is one of the best exemplars of Flaubert's famous dictum, "Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may b... (Tom)

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My Absolute Darling

by Gabriel Tallent

MADE-UP

My Absolute Darling is very easy, and very hard, to read. It is the story of Turtle, who lives with her father, isolated on a wild stretch of the northern California coast. He trains her to navigate a... (Laura)

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