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Newsletter #265

March 9, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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Everyone's Awake

by Colin Meloy and Shawn Harris

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #51

As anyone who reads kids books out loud knows, not every rhyming picture book has rhymes that really sing. But Colin Meloy, the singer and songwriter of the Decembrists, knows how to compose a singabl... (Tom)

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My Dark Vanessa

by Kate Elizabeth Russell

MADE-UP

As the title promises, this story is a dark one. It is a modern-day Lolita, in which 32-year-old Vanessa is still reckoning with the affair she had at the brave and vulnerable age of 15 with her 42-ye... (Anika)

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The Island of the Sea Women

by Lisa See

MADE-UP

I love to learn things from the books I read, and this book taught me so much—not only about the South Korean island Jeju, its matrifocal society of haenyeo (women divers), and its culture and traditi... (Anika)

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