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This was a Bamako book club pick. Here's what I wrote up after our discussion: The first thing everyone wanted to talk about, and a subject we returned to frequently over the course of the evening, was the historical nonfiction... ... (continued)

This is another "fiction, sort of" book, like The History of the World in 10½ Chapters. It covers only a few days out of the U.S. Civil War, the days that would come to be known as the battle of Gettysburg. ... (continued)