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It’s the Fourth of July in the United States this week, Canada Day in Canada, and, just, generally, summer. In honor of a crazy slow period, I thought I’d talk about my favorite recent beach reads.
What makes a beach read? If you Google around, you’ll see that the literary community both can’t come to any consensus, AND loves digging into what makes be…