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Same Sun Here | Silas House, Neela Vaswani

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A tender, epistolary middle‑grade novel told through letters between 12‑year‑olds Meena, an Indian immigrant in NYC, and River, a Kentucky coal‑miner‘s son. Their correspondence captures the beauty of unlikely friendship, courage, and shared humanity across cultural and geographic divides. Touching, enlightening, and full of hope.

xicanti

Scandalous Letters of V and J | Felicia Davin

Fabulous book + fabulous dog. I think I snagged THE SCANDALOUS LETTERS OF V AND J during one of those Stuff Your Ereader events, and I‘m super happy with Past Me‘s choices. This gender bending epistolary historical fantasy is all kinds of moreish. I know what I‘m doing with the rest of my evening.

willaful There's a sequel and I think she's working on the third one right now. 2w

xicanti @willaful looks like the third one‘s out already. I added both books to my Hoopla list. 2w

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1w

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Perspective(s) | Laurent Binet

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Perspective(s), by Laurent Binet (2023, transl. 2025)
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Premise: An epistolary mystery set in the midst of the political, social, artistic, and religious upheavals of Renaissance Florence.

Review: An ‘entertaining‘ and accessible Binet novel is still smarter and stranger than most literary fiction. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday He superbly wrangles a vast cast of characters and correspondents to craft a novel that is simultaneously an effective mystery, reflection on the importance of perspective in shaping (or blinding us to) the truth of an event, and discussion of artistic freedom. I didn‘t think this would get full marks from me, but the more I think about it, the more impressive it seems.

Bookish Pair: Umberto Eco‘s The Name of the Rose (1980) 3w

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