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Newsletter #257

January 6, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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A Million Dots

by Sven Völker

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #48

There are counting books, and then there are counting books! With elegance and imagination and, finally, an extremely long foldout page, Völker demonstrates, in concrete terms, the difference between... (Tom)

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Golden Days

by Carolyn See

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #60

This book never goes where you expect it to. Is it a satire of '80s SoCal self-empowerment? Is it a post-nuclear-war story of human apocalypse and survival? Both? Neither? The real story, for me, is i... (Tom)

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Oil Notes

by Rick Bass

Phinney by Post #61

This is a young man's book, written at a particular time (the late '80s) about a subject that, in our own time, is almost impossible not to see in a different way. Before Bass moved to remote Montana... (Tom)

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