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May 01 2017

Tales of the Squee

  • By Doug Merrill in Coming Attractions, Doug, Lists, Short Takes
  • May 1, 2017

The height of my to-be-read pile could be measured in years, if the books could somehow fit into a unified pile. And that doesn’t count a particular moving box in the basement, in which some really good books, or at least some really interesting-looking books are awaiting their turn to come upstairs. (Some of them …

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