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Average rating: 4.25 · 8,940 ratings · 1,728 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The History of Sound 4.32 avg rating — 7,640 ratings — published 2024 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau 3.85 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	La Forme et la Couleur des sons by Ben Shattuck (Goodreads Author), Yoann Gasiorowski (Narrator), Georgia Scalliet (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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We’ll keep this short: Today’s collection is aimed at those of us who have developed a regular short fiction habit—or those who are curious...

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“Is this why a parent’s death is so devastating? That of all the witnesses lined up in your life, losing a parent is losing the biggest one, the one who drummed you up out of nowhere and saw you, and saw you, and saw you?”
― Ben Shattuck, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

tags: death, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, death-of-a-parent, parents

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“But you should have a little pain in your life—humans are meant to have a little pain. Endings, I suppose, like seasons, like winters. That’s where all the good stuff is. Ripped apart, so you can feel the mending. There’s nothing like it. I wouldn’t wish an uneventful life on my worst enemy.”
― Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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“The history of sound, lost daily. I’ve started to think of Earth as a wax cylinder; the sun the needle, laid on the land and drawing out the day’s music—the sound of people arguing, cooking, laughing, singing, moaning, crying, flirting. And behind that, a silent sweep of millions of sleeping people, washing across the Earth like static.”
― Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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Polls

October BoTM Nominations ~ Historical Fiction ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 move onto final poll.

Flags on the Bayou

by James Lee Burke

3 votes, 17.6%

The Antidote

by Karen Russell

3 votes, 17.6%

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow

by Alyssa Palombo

3 votes, 17.6%

The Home for Unwanted Girls

by Joanna Goodman

2 votes, 11.8%

The Rules of Magic

by Alice Hoffman

2 votes, 11.8%

Becoming Madam Secretary

by Stephanie Dray

2 votes, 11.8%

The Glassmaker

by Tracy Chevalier

1 vote, 5.9%

The History of Sound

by Ben Shattuck

1 vote, 5.9%

The Forty Elephants

by Erin Bledsoe

0 votes, 0.0%

The Great Divide

by Cristina Henríquez

0 votes, 0.0%

17 total votes

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