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Newsletter #268

March 30, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

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Normal People

by Sally Rooney

MADE-UP

Normal People, while a coming-of-age novel about first love, is not a romance. The story is written with insight into two protagonists, Marianne and Connell, which lends a sort of he-said, she-said qu... (Anika)

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

MADE-UP

Yes, I know that Station Eleven is one of the most brilliant and entertaining books about a pandemic ever written, but I swear, it's a coincidence that I'm recommending another book by Emily St. John... (James)

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The Man in the Red Coat

by Julian Barnes

TRUE

Barnes has written wonderful historical fiction; this lovely book is nonfiction, but it's written with a novelist's wandering eye. On the face of it a biography—of the celebrity physician Samuel Pozzi... (Tom)

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