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Newsletter #189

June 11, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

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Ordinary Wolves

by Seth Kantner

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #42

The headline to a review I wrote of this book when it came out in 2004 read, "Caribou Hair Everywhere," and I can't think of three words that better describe it. Raised by a father who moved from the... (Tom)

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Some Trick: Thirteen Stories

by Helen DeWitt

MADE-UP

In the mathematical fable Flatland, the inhabitants of a two-dimensional world can only see three-dimensional visitors as a flat slice of their true being. That's sometimes how I think of Helen DeWitt... (Tom)

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They Say Blue

by Jillian Tamaki

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #30

Plenty of kids' books introduce young readers to colors, but few do what Tamaki's beautiful book does so subtly: show that color depends on perspective (why does blue water turn clear when it runs thr... (Tom)

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