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Lights of New York 09 December 2025

1928 crime, dir. Bryan Foy, Cullen Landis, Helene Costello; IMDb / allmovie. What do you do when you find you're taking the fall for a bootlegger? Hope for a gun from the shadows.

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Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh 08 December 2025

2019 fantasy novella. The rumoured Wild Man of Greenhollow Wood is a legend that has grown in the telling; but Tobias Finch just wants to be left alone with his cat and the dryads. When the young folklorist who's just bought the Hall comes to visit, that'll cause problems…

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The Weekly Challenge 350: A Good Shuffle 07 December 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string fragments and numerical anagrams. (Note that this ends today.)

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Everybody Codes 2025 week 3 06 December 2025

I've been doing Everybody Codes, a set of programming challenges in the style of Advent of Code, now in its second year.

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Framed in Death, J. D. Robb 05 December 2025

2025 romance/SF/mystery; 61st novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). A failed artist has worked out how to make the art world truly appreciate his paintings: the deaths of the models.

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The Jazz Singer 04 December 2025 - 2 comments

1927 musical, dir. Alan Crosland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy; IMDb / allmovie. Will the good Jewish boy have a dazzling entertainment career or stay true to his roots? Both!

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What Moves the Dead, T Kingfisher 03 December 2025

2022 short horror novel. Alex Easton has been called to the ancestral home of Roderick Usher, who served under him in the war. Roderick's sister Madeline is very ill…

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Everybody Codes 2025 week 2 02 December 2025

I've been doing Everybody Codes, a set of programming challenges in the style of Advent of Code, now in its second year.

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The 45% Hangover, Stuart MacBride 01 December 2025

2014 police procedural mystery novella, tartan noir, in the Logan McRae series. On the night of the Scottish independence referendum, McRae is trying to track down a missing "no" campaigner. But the next morning, he's going to wake up hung over, naked, in a strange bed, with his boss…

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The Weekly Challenge 349: Power Meeting 30 November 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string breakdowns and coordinates. (Note that this ends today.)

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