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Mr Campion's Farthing, Philip Youngman Carter 17 January 2025

1969 English detective fiction; twentieth of the novels of Albert Campion, from an idea by Margery Allingham but written after her death by her husband. "Turrets" is kept up in High Victorian style as a sort of hotel for period weekend breaks, but a notable Soviet scientist vanished while staying there, and several parties are taking an interest.

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Neighbourly Games 14 January 16 January 2025

More gaming with nearby friends.

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Long Live Evil, Sarah Rees Brennan 15 January 2025

2024 fantasy, first of its series. Rae is dying of cancer when she is given a choice: be dropped into her sister's favourite fantasy series Time of Iron, complete a task, and be healed and back in her own body (or stuck there if she fails). Of course she takes it. Pity she never actually read the first book…

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Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Ashley Herring Blake 14 January 2025

2022 romance, first of a trilogy. Delilah got out of the tiny Oregon town of Bright Falls the instant she could, building an art-photography career in New York and leaving her perfect stepsister Astrid with the rest of the Mean Girls. But now Astrid is getting married and wants to employ her as photographer, and Delilah could really use the money…

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A Handful of Stars, Dana Stabenow 13 January 2025 - 2 comments

1991 SF, second of its series. "Star" Svensdotter, having finished supervising the construction of the first L5 habitat, is now taking a small fleet to the Belt to try to secure a more reliable supply of materials for the second.

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The Weekly Challenge 303: Can Even Digits Earn? 12 January 2025

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved permuting integers and searching lists. (Note that this ends today.)

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Thirsty Meeples January 2025 11 January 2025

Back to the boardgame café.

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Rumpole of the Bailey, John Mortimer 10 January 2025 - 3 comments

1978 comedy anthology, consisting of Mortimer's adaptations of his own scripts from the first season of the television series. Rumpole is an ageing barrister who somehow prevails over everything life can throw at him.

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Stabcon 2025 09 January 2025 - 2 comments

Back to the Masonic Hall for a chilly weekend. (Well, in the outside world anyway.)

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Three Nights at the Opera, Heather Rose Jones 08 January 2025

2014 Ruritanian fantasy short story. Before the events of Daughter of Mystery, Barbara attends the opera while her master the Baron is away.

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