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Newsletter #175

February 26, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Circle, Triangle, Elephant: A Book of Shapes and Surprises

Circle, Triangle, Elephant: A Book of Shapes and Surprises

by Kenji Oikawa and Mayuko Takeuchi

Is an elephant a shape? Is a lemon? A bus? I don't see why not, but somehow it's still hilarious (to me, and I expect to a toddler just learning all these rules we've decided on) to see such incongruo... (Tom)

Cover of LiarTown: The First Four Years, 2013-2017

LiarTown: The First Four Years, 2013-2017

by Sean Tejaratchi

I once considered making Tejaratchi's hilarious LiarTownUSA Tumblr page a Link of the Week (because it so often features fake book covers) but thought better of it because, well, there's a lot of stuf... (Tom)

Cover of Vengeance

Vengeance

by Zachary Lazar

MADE-UP

Despite the words "A Novel" on the cover, I found myself struggling to think of Vengeance as anything but true. In part, that's by design: the main character is a journalist named Zachary Lazar who me... (Tom)

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