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Summer Stabcon 2025 10 July 2025 - 1 comment

Back to the Masonic Hall for a damp and muggy weekend.

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Wooing the Witch Queen, Stephanie Burgis 09 July 2025

2025 romantic fantasy, first of a new series. Felix is the young, widowed Archduke, cowed by his family and waiting to be murdered in the pursuit of power, until he suddenly realises that there's nobody left that he cares about to be hurt if he runs away. Meanwhile, the villainous Queen Saskia seems to have the one kingdom where his family can't reach him…

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot 08 July 2025 - 2 comments

1939 poetry, descriptions of various cats-about-town.

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Close to the Bone, Stuart MacBride 07 July 2025

2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, eighth in the Logan McRae series. A man turns up burned to death, gangland style; someone's beating up Asian drug dealers; oh, and two teenage lovers haven't been seen for a few days. Logan McRae will, ultimately, solve all of these cases…

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The Weekly Challenge 328: Good Replacement. 06 July 2025

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

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Rope (1948) 05 July 2025

1948 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, James Stewart; IMDb / allmovie. Two students commit the perfect murder, and to prove it host a dinner parry over the corpse.

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Bad Reputation, Emma Barry 04 July 2025

2024 romance. Cole James was the bad boy on a soap opera, bought into the image a bit too much, and has being trying to rehabilitate his life and career ever since. Maggie Niven was a school drama teacher forced out by a parental complaint, now starting a new career as an intimacy coordinator. They're both working on the Bridgerton-esque TV adaptation of The Heart of Midlothian.

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Strangers on a Train (1951) 03 July 2025

1951 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, Robert Walker; IMDb / allmovie. Tennis star and political wannaba Guy Haines meets a strange man on a train, who seems to know too much about his private life and proposes that they each commit the murder that the other would find convenient. The price of fame. Then Guy's estranged wife is killed…

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Direct Descendant, Tanya Huff 02 July 2025

2025 horror-romance-fantasy. The town of Lake Argen, deep in rural Ontario, seems quiet and boring. They work hard to keep it that way…

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Chimes at Midnight (1965) 01 July 2025

1965 Shakespearean adaptation, dir. and starring Orson Welles: IMDb / allmovie. Falstaff!

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