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Newsletter #309

October 4, 2021

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of All Systems Red
Cover of Artificial Condition

All Systems Red

by Martha Wells

Artificial Condition

by Martha Wells

MADE-UP

After multiple customer recommendations for Wells's Murderbot Diaries series, I finally jumped in, and after two books I'm hooked. The books' slim size (most of them just 160 quick-turning pa... (Tom)

Cover of Crossroads

Crossroads

by Jonathan Franzen

MADE-UP

Of all the things a novelist can do, Jonathan Franzen is among the best at one of the most important: creating full, human characters who make terrible decisions, again and again. In Crossroads, those... (Tom)

Cover of Eight Ghosts
Cover of These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Book of New Folktale, Myth, and Legend

Eight Ghosts

by Sarah Perry, Max Porter, et al.

These Our Monsters: The English Heritage Book of New Folktale, Myth, and Legend

by Sarah Hall, Paul Kingsnorth, et al.

MADE-UP

This is the time of year when we seek out stories to touch something primitive in us—we want to revisit the things that scared us years ago, and dig up those that have scared people through the ages. ... (Liz)

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