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#319 - 21 Books for Your Summer Reading
The Lazy Genius Podcast
The Book of Speculation by Erica Swiler
Next from the summer of 2019 is The Book of Speculation by Erica Swiler. Simon Watson, a young librarian lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island sound. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath drowned in the very water his house overlooks. Could there be a curse on Simon's family? What does it have to do with the book and can he get to the heart of the mystery in time to save Enola? In the tradition of Sarah Gruen's water for elephants, Erin Morgensterns the night circus, one of my favorite books, and Elizabeth Costavas the historian, the book of
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