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Average rating: 4.25 · 12,635 ratings · 2,340 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The History of Sound 4.30 avg rating — 11,198 ratings — published 2024 — 3 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 — 1,437 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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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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“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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“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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“And by that time, all of Mark’s and Julia’s and Ian’s problems would be so far in the past, so irrelevant, it would be as if they’d never even touched the earth.”
― Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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Time to vote on the September book nominations.
Poll closes on August 17th.
Good luck nominees.

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck

6 votes, 46.2%

The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

4 votes, 30.8%

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood by Drema Hall Berkheimer

3 votes, 23.1%

13 total votes

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