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Let’s maintain it gentle on election day with some nice diversions.
Calgon, Take Me Away
I’ll let the NYT‘s Jennifer Harlan communicate for all of us right here:
When the true world will get to be an excessive amount of, I prefer to lose myself in one in every of these reads, the place the motion is packed and the stakes are excessive however the penalties are removed from our current realm.
Sound good? These fantasy books will transport you to a different world.
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A Story of Two Cruises
Let’s hop into the wayback machine and get some most distraction. Keep in mind the time a reporter for Slate went on the Gone Woman cruise? That delightfully deranged piece of journalism is second solely to Gary Shteyngart’s story of spending seven nights on the largest cruise ship ever. These two tales mixed ought to provide you with at the very least half-hour of cringing at one thing that isn’t election protection.