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Newsletter #325

June 6, 2022

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4 books featured in this issue

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Annihilation

by Jeff VanderMeer

MADE-UP

VanderMeer has created such an atmospheric and foreboding landscape in Area X, and I found myself drawn deeper and deeper into it by the beauty and mystery there. Instead of seizing up with dread or s... (Anika)

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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

by Seamas O'Reilly

If you noticed me laughing out loud on my walk home in the last week or so, I was probably listening to this new memoir, which, despite being about the death of O'Reilly's mother when he was five, aga... (Tom)

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Exactly Where You Need to Be

by Amelia Diane Coombs

MADE-UP

Sometimes I pick up a book and I just know we're going to get along. This sweet YA novel ticked so many of my boxes. Positive mental health rep? Check. A post-graduation road trip with surprising dive... (Anika)

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The Men

by Sandra Newman

MADE-UP

In 2019, Sandra Newman published a novel, The Heavens, that landed on my year's best list, a book that "asks profound questions about what kind of world we want to live in and what lengths we'll go to... (James)

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