One of the best books I've read in the last 6 months is . (Part 1)

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Here’s the CC Book Club discussion of North Woods in case you’re interested.

North Woods - August CC Book Club Selection

Our August selection is North Woods by Daniel Mason, a national bestseller about a house in the woods of New England and the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries. The novel blends forms and genres, using letters, poems, diary entries, medical notes, real-estate listings, botanical illustrations and more as it tells each individual story. As for the house itself, "it thrives, lapses into disrepair, is abandoned and revived, all the while serving as a not-quite-silent witness to the lives — and deaths — of its occupants” (The New York Times). Author Maggie O’Farrell called the book a magnificent “polyphony,” which I confess I had to look up: "the style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other.” A time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . Each chapter germinates its own form while sending out tendrils that entwine beneath the surface of the novel. - The Washington Post This …