weekend open thread – August 5-6, 2023

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Book recommendation of the week: The Appeal, by Janice Hallett. A murder mystery told entirely through emails and messages sent among the members of a local theater group that has been rallying to raise funds for a sick child in their director’s family. The epistolary element is great fun.

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Meet Stella and Fig (previously fosters Norma and Cherry). We adopted them!