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The Fold, Peter Clines 20 November 2024 - 4 comments

2015 SF, one of a loose series but intended to stand alone. Something very strange is happening around the top-secret teleportation project…

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Thirsty Meeples November 2024 19 November 2024 - 1 comment

Back to the boardgame café.

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Thematic Integration in Board Game Design, Sarah Shipp 18 November 2024

2024 non-fiction. How can theme be effectively built into the design of a board game, rather than pasted on at the end?

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The Weekly Challenge 295: Jump and Break 17 November 2024

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

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Amber Gambler, Hailey Edwards 16 November 2024

2024 urban fantasy, second of its series. Frankie the necromancer continues to work for her dead clients…

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Assistant to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer 15 November 2024

2023 fantasy romance, first of a series. Evie is wondering how to cope without a job when she runs into a wounded man in the woods. She helps him, only to discover that he is the Villain who's terrorising the kingdom. But it turns out that he needs a PA…

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Games At Home 14 November 2024

More gamers at home as the night drew in and a week of anticyclonic gloom (not to mention the real-world sort) broke in just a few places.

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The Last Word, Elly Griffiths 13 November 2024

2024 mystery, fourth in the loose Harbinder Kaur series. Two sisters ask the detective agency to look into their mother's death, though it was ruled an accident. And it seems that several other writers have also died recently…

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Wolvercote Games Again 12 November 2024 - 2 comments

The Oxford Meeples had another quarterly games day, and I had a great time again.

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Birthdays for the Dead, Stuart MacBride 11 November 2024

2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, first in the Ash Henderson series. A serial killer takes girls just before their thirteenth birthdays, kills them, and sends a photograph of the process every subsequent year. DC Ash Henderson is really not the man to crack the case.

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The Weekly Challenge 294: Permutationally Consecutive 10 November 2024 - 2 comments

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list searches and permutations. (Note that this ends today.)

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Second Star, Dana Stabenow 09 November 2024

1991 SF, first in a series. "Star" Svensdotter is in charge of getting the American Alliance's first O'Neill colony ready for commissioning. Terrorists, bureaucrats and a potential military takeover will get in the way.

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The Mischievous Letters of the Marquise de Q, Felicia Davin 08 November 2024

2023 epistolary fantastic romance. In 1822, Delphine's lover disappears, and she is forced to marry. Several years later her vile husband dies and leaves her wealthy, but that is by no means the end of her troubles.

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Neighbourly Games 4 November 07 November 2024

More gaming with nearby friends, after some breaks for illness.

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The Fossil Door, Celia Lake 06 November 2024

2021 romantic fantasy. In 1922, Rathna is sent to look into a transportation portal that's shut down; she's very specialised in her understanding of portals, so an expert in other magics is sent to help her out.

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Spaceships and Spellcasters, Glynn Stewart 05 November 2024

2018 anthology of novellas from Stewart's various universes.

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The Dueling Duchess, Minerva Spencer 04 November 2024

2023 Regency romance, second of its series. Cecile Tremblay is a French emigré turned circus sharpshooter, and had an agreeable interlude with Gaius Darlington on their trip to ransom a missing brother. But then he wrecked it all…

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The Weekly Challenge 293: Domino Boomerang 03 November 2024

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved checking dominoes and doing some floating-point operations. (Note that this ends today.)

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Silent Voices, Ann Cleeves 02 November 2024

2011 contemporary police mystery, fourth in Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series. Stanhope, reluctantly attending the local gym, finds a woman's body in the steam room.

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Marple: Twelve New Stories 01 November 2024

2022 detective fiction anthology. Twelve modern authors present their takes on Miss Marple. No editor is credited.

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