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Dec. 22nd, 2021

An oddly specific theme for this week's reading: historical fiction about 17th century witch trials. I read Rivka Galchen's Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch, about the trial of Katharina Kepler (mother of astronomer Johannes Kepler) in 1610s what-is-now-Germany, and The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, based on the Vardø witch trials in Norway in 1621.

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