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Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson

May 23, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley Ursula K Le Guin tells the story of a place whose happiness depends on one child being miserable in “The One Who Walks Away from Omelas” and the reactions to those when they discover it. In part, our ability to exist in the world is on our ability to disregard or ignore horrors, but sometimes we refuse that happiness, refuse to bow to the horrors. In many ways, Thomson’s book makes me think of that story as well as how much […]

https://cannonballread.com/2019/05/syrias-secret-library-chris/

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: MIke Thomson, NetGalley

Chris's CBR11 Review No:66 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: MIke Thomson, NetGalley ·
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