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A summer reading list with a Western accent

Seven books by alumni, faculty and friends make a case for slower attention between terms.

Seven summer reads from the Western community. Official Western News image.
Campus & cultureSeven summer reads from the Western community. Official Western News image.Photo: Western News / official source page

Western News's summer reading list moves from land and friendship to the brain, climate and the complicated work of growing up. It is a small but vivid picture of a university community that keeps publishing and thinking beyond the timetable.

For alumni, the pleasure is not only finding a title. It is seeing the reading life around Western widen into a summer ritual: a book in a bag, a question carried to the next place and a few quiet hours that still feel productive.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
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