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2: By the Lake by John McGahern
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This month Kathryn and Eve read & discuss By the Lake by John McGahern. It’s a humble, pastoral meditation on the rhythms that dictate the lives of Joe and Kate Ruttledge--plus a charming cast of characters that live, like them, around the lake.
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Our email is somethingweread@gmail.com please write to us!
Our Instagram, which we forgot to mention again.
Something Eve Read for Eve’s weekly writings.
Other books & recommendations…
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The specific Something Eve Read post Kathryn mentions: Clams, Fish, Domestic Bliss
Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again by Danny Licht
The Strand (buy online!)
Three Lives & Co. (buy in person!)
Closing Poem: “O sweet spontaneous” by E. E. Cummings
Next Month’s Book…
Table for Two by Amor Towles
And! Special thanks to our sponsors, tulips and dumplings. Don’t forget to get your reservation at Hancock Street for Cha Cha Tang to experience first-hand, dumplings’ most recent work. You can catch Kathryn there…probably every Sunday & Monday night while it lasts.
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