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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.

page 59
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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.

page 126
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Review: Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

A photo of my physical copy of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ sitting on a blue patterned cloth surface with the front cover facing the camera.
I really quite like the front cover design for Taiwan Travelogue. I would like it even better without the National Book Award Winner stamped on the top right but that doesn’t detract too much from the overall design. Cover design is by Kimberly Glyder.

As we walked arm in arm in this merry mood, wind brushed against our cheeks–a wind strong enough to lift bougainvillea blossoms off their branches. Did that mean we, too, were characters in a shojo romance?

page 129
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Review: The Cloak and Dagger Club by Jackie McMahon

A hardcover copy of The Cloak and Dagger Club by Jackie McMahon sitting on a blue cloth surface. The front cover is facing the camera.
I like how the cover evokes the era The Cloak and Dagger Club is set in along with its writer main characters.

But Lucy couldn’t bear to cut down her book collection. How could she when there were so many interesting novels to read in this world, and more coming out every year?

page 91, Chapter 9
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