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Hello there! We're writing this in the midst of World Cup fever. We don't mind a bit of football at .Bookbag Towers but we really don't get feverish about it. If you're the same, read on. We have plenty of reading recommendations for you and you might need them if all around you has gone Rio mad.
Here's a weird thing. Do you remember how much we loved [[The Book of Human Skin byMichelle by Michelle Lovric]]? Well, ''in good news for bibliomaniacs and cannibals'' - their words not ours! - Harvard University has established that an infamous 19th century book really is bound in human skin. The Guardian will tell you all about it [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/06/tests-19th-century-book-bound-human-skin here]. Creepy, huh?
And we can't let this newsletter go without an RIP to Maya Angelou, who died aged 86 at the end of last month. Novelist, poet and civil rights campaigner, she was someone we should never forget. She will be missed.
