HeyJaredThe Only Gaijin in the Village
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Rearview Mirror: Travels in Seattle, Real and Imaginary. Prologue (opens the original)
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Tales from the Village (opens the original)
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A New Hope (opens the original)
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August Reads Part Two (opens the original)
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August Reads Part One (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowBeing on holiday, I have finally had time to read properly. A few flights, some camping trips, being bedridden for a week, and generally lying low gave me so much time and space to immerse myself in the tbr shelf. Utter bliss. It does mean that, due to Substack’s size restrictions, I’ve had to split this into two posts. My shelf had a backlog of recent Scottish lit publications, so let’s focus on those in part one. <a class="image-link i
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