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Review: The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout

A paperback copy of The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout on a blue cloth surface with the front cover facing the camera.
The cover design for The Things We Never Say has similar colours to the blue cloth background I tend to use nowadays.

So blind we humans are—so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have, as Artie did with Rhonda Lazarre that day. But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see.

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Review: All Them Dogs by Djamel White

My hardcover copy of All Them Dogs by Djamel White sitting on a blue cloth surface with the front cover facing the camera.
The front cover design of All Them Dogs is striking. The jacket design is by Grace Han.

And I remembered looking back over my shoulder as we ran away, Eddie Glackin lying there alone, not a friend in sight to hold him as he bled out, and I thought what a lonely world it was for unlovable fucks like us.

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