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Hieronymous Alloy posted:so everyone is agreed that, in honor of the death of noted author Michael Bond, next months' BotM will be "A Bear Called Paddington" It's a compelling and relevant refugee tale. For a more serious suggestion, I just got a recommendation for The Egg and Iby Betty MacDonald. It's a memoir about the author, a children's book writer, trying to start a poultry farm in Washington. It's supposed to be witty and a nice summer escape. It hits some Booklord categories and is selfishly already on my list for later this month. For the lit or people wanting fiction again, you could consider the recent Man Booker International winner A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Goldstein. A stand up comedian in a backwater town in Israel invites a childhood friend to see his act. It's quickly apparent that he's a bit of a hack, but as the act goes on he starts to spiral out of control, the jokes become few and far between as he starts to reveal his difficult childhood. The audience gets restless and you're trapped with the few who remain as his old friend feels compelled to bear witness and see if his own childhood betrayal will be revealed. Not sure on SFF.
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