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Newsletter #321

April 11, 2022

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5 books featured in this issue

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Eyes of the Rigel

by Roy Jacobsen

MADE-UP

Those of you (and there are many) who've encountered the previous volumes of the Barrøy Chronicles, The Unseen or White Shadow, will not need me to say anything about this new book other than It's her... (James)

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Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

MADE-UP

Elizabeth Zott is my new hero. As a scientist in the 1960s, she has to contend with ingrained sexism not just in the world in general, but especially in the world of science, where her male colleagues... (Doree)

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The Shame

by Makenna Goodman

MADE-UP

Comparison is the thief of this artistic, anti-capitalist, homesteading young mother's joy when she starts comparing the mundanity of her own lived life in rural Vermont to the highlight reel of her N... (Anika)

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The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

MADE-UP Phinney by Post #86

I might express the strangeness of this novel by saying that the extensive footnotes about a misguided thinker named de Selby, who believed, among other things, that night is caused by "accumulations... (Tom)

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Writer in a Life Vest: Essays from the Salish Sea

by Iris Graville

TRUE

From 2018-2019 Iris Graville served as the first writer-in-residence aboard the Washington State Ferries, spending a couple days a week writing on the route that travels between Lopez, Orcas, Shaw, an... (Haley)

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