Found this in the university library. Realized I had never read Dick. All books, or just this one, use abbreviated sentences? Makes for interesting style. Noted. Light rain falling in San Jose. Just south of setting of novel. San Francisco in alternative history. Nazis and Japan won the big one. America divided into three occupation territories. Defeated. Insecure. What are we worth: Nothing. But maybe. Deep inside us. Like Bourbon. Consult the I Ching. Worth reading bad novel? Can bad novel win prestigious prize? All timelines coexist.
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- Organisation de deux activités à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Séance de jeudi récréatif à la bibliothèque communale de Karaba
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- Séance de lecture à haute voix à l’école de Lokihoun
- Reading FAVL-produced books in Koho library, Burkina Faso!
- Librarian meeting in Sumbrungu, Ghana
- Animation d’une séance de lecture guidée à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Don de jeu de scrabble au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba
- Immersion à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho