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Reviews 2006

October 31, 2019 by Betsy Bird

Vintage Reviews from 2006: Behind the Mask by Yangsook Choi

It's the first of my new Vintage Reviews series. Today I travel back in time to 2006, the first year I started blogging. What book did I review for Halloween that year? Turns out, it was this now out-of-print but still beautiful classic.

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