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Newsletter #262

February 17, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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A Month in Siena

by Hisham Matar

TRUE

Matar wrote this book in between books. The one he had just finished, The Return (which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017), was a memoir of his attempt to discover the fate of his father, who was disappear... (Tom)

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Master and Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

MADE-UP

For so long I've looked forward to trying Patrick O'Brian's famous tales of the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and I'm glad I finally did so via Patrick Tull's utterly delightful audio rendi... (Tom)

Cover of The Imaginaries: Little Scraps of Larger Stories

The Imaginaries: Little Scraps of Larger Stories

by Emily Winfield Martin

MADE-UP

Many books are bad (I can admit that), some books are good, and a few books are great. Even fewer are great at being more than one kind of book at the same time. Oregon's Emily Winfield Martin has lon... (James)

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