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Newsletter #324

May 23, 2022

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4 books featured in this issue

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Canada Made Me

by Norman Levine

TRUE Phinney by Post #89

This travelogue of three months Levine, a Canadian expat who had migrated semi-permanently to England, spent tramping across his native land in 1956 proved so unpopular in Canada it took two decades t... (Tom)

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Fruit of Knowledge

by Liv Strömquist, translated by Melissa Bowers

MADE-UP

This punchy work of graphic nonfiction reads like the best of stand-up comedy in its presentation of the feminist history of "the female genitalia." It highlights the absurd and infuriating; for insta... (Anika)

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This Time Tomorrow

by Emma Straub

MADE-UP

I was already a fan of Emma Straub’s fiction before I picked up This Time Tomorrow, but now I’m a superfan. This time-travel fantasy was pitch perfect: sweet without being cloying, sad without being a... (Nancy)

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Tiny Cedric

by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Rowboat Watkins

MADE-UP Phinney Kids by Post #77

Phinney Tiny Cedric In the land of unintended consquences, when a pint-sized king banishes everyone taller than him from his castle the result is: a castle full of babies! The result for the reader is... (Tom)

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