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Newsletter #247

September 23, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of A Small Place

A Small Place

by Jamaica Kincaid

TRUE

Someone on Twitter asked for suggestions of "angry" books just when I was in the middle of reading this one, one of the angriest books I've ever read. It comes in such a deceptive package, with its mo... (Tom)

Cover of A Stone Sat Still

A Stone Sat Still

by Brendan Wenzel

Phinney Kids by Post #43

Wenzel returns to the same premise as in his Caldecott Honor winner, They All Saw a Cat—everyone brings their own perspective to the same thing—but for me there's something even more evocative about m... (Tom)

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Talk Stories

by Jamaica Kincaid

Phinney by Post #57

When I sat down to write the little introductory card I include in our Phinney by Post selections for what I had planned would be this month's choice—Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (see below)—I real... (Tom)

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