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Books: November 2020 Update

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I am aware that I never got around to writing Part 2 of my July 2020 Books update. In the spirit of not leaving myself a list of backlogged book reviews to write, I am listing here all the books I have read since my quarantine in the basement ended. I have chosen to write about a select few books instead of writing about all of them. As the literary-minded of you may notice, I am indeed on a long quest (which will take years) to read all of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. The Overstory This novel is on a higher plane than the average novel that I pick up. It thoroughly deserves its Pulitzer Prize. It is about trees. More specifically, it is about nine characters whose lives interact and overlap, but the central force in each of their individual and collective stories is the trees in their lives. Some have reverence for trees to begin with, others know nothing about them. Either way, trees slowly, irreversibly, become the driving, motivating factor in each of their lives and bring th