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ये दुनिया है या आलम-ए-बदहवासी? ہم دیکھیں گ
je ne sais rien, non sono qui.
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4.5/5
@thestorygraph for "Kate Hardy" by D. E. Stevenson, book 15/15 for my #DeanStreetDecember

As it is my last, here's a link to all 15 of my reviews for this year:
#AmReading #ebooks #bookstodon #Kobo @bookstodon

https://robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2023/11/deuxieme-dean-street-december.html

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Reading D.E. Stevenson's "Kate Hardy" book 15/15 for my 2023 #DeanStreetDecember and here she writes beautifully ABOUT writing. #AmReading #ebooks #Kobo #bookstodon @bookstodon

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    @AnnaAnthro It is also CRITCALLY NECESSARY, because not ONE.SINGLE.KDRAMA.CAR has an airbag :ablobrollingeyes: 😂

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    @AnnaAnthro They don't need them because apparently the ML can always protect the FL in a crash by throwing out his physics-defying superarm instead. 😂

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    @thatdosbox @Astrealix Try living somewhere where 7AM would be a dream start time, a rare and precious treat 😊

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    @Astrealix Hong Kong? Amateur league! 😂 A game that starts at 9pm HK time starts at 2AM here

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    4.5/5
    @thestorygraph for "The Sharp Quillet" by Brian Flynn, book 14/15 for my #DeanStreetDecember It was my 14th, but in detection Bathurst is definitely no carthorse. 🤣 #TooEasy #SorryNotSorry #Puns #AmReading #ebooks #Kobo #bookstodon @bookstodon

    https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/db48e431-63a6-476f-a52e-ea089879c5b3

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    SO disappointed that the pun in my post generated no response at all. Back to my books, I guess #AmReading #DeanStreetDecember

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    Simple things amuse simple minds: I #AmReading "The Sharp Quillet" by Brian Flynn, book 14/15 for my 2024 #DeanStreetDecember and this passage made me smile. Dry understated humour (on the) rocks! #Kobo #ebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon

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    @aetataureate THANK YOU! I hated Project Hail Mary, was beginning to think that I might have been the only (allegedly) sentient being who did 🙏

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    @aetataureate It was his OTT omniscience that grated most for me. He knew everything ABOUT everything, in very different fields, basically making Nobel level experts in every discipline look like kindergartners. If that one character had instead been a team, I think the core concept would have been very much enhanced

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    Inspired by
    having the Niven biography "The Other Side of the Moon' for #DeanStreetDecember 2024, I've decided to honour my Dad by adding to my 2024 TBR bios of 3 comics he introduced me to when I was FAR too young to really get them. Recs please for the best bios of
    Sellers
    Secombe
    Milligan
    #AmReading #ReadersOfMastodon #ebooks @bookstodon #bookstodon

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    Reading Moray Dalton's "Death in the Forest" for #DeanStreetDecember and this passage rings very true as authentically Anglophone :

    “You shall have that over and above the fare. Compris?”

    Speak English but throw in 1 French word, to a cabbie in a Spanish-speaking country🤦‍♂️
    #AmReading #ebooks #Kobo @bookstodon #bookstodon

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    "Preantepenultimate" is 1 of my favourite words. So how apt that my preantepenultimate book for #DeanStreetDecember 2023 is ALSO a favourite. My first 5/5
    @thestorygraph for this year's DSD (also includes a mini rant about a trope I hate in #KDrama )
    #AmReading #ReasdersofMastodon #bookstodon #ebooks #Kobo @bookstodon
    https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4c687a2f-a9f2-4460-a8f5-16adf699d3a5

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    Lovely writing from Molly Clavering (and good avice in the title too) in "Touch Not the Nettle" my book 12/15 for #DeanStreetDecember #AmReading #ebooks #Kobo #bookstodon
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    4.25/5 @thestorygraph for "The Case of the Missing Men" - book 11/15 for my 2023 #DeanStreetDecember Another fun frolic, although I'm wondering if it was also "The Case of the Missing Map"🤔 #AmReading #ReadersOfMastodon #ebooks #GoldenAgeMysteries @bookstodon #StoryGraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ae0b6120-a3af-47b2-8736-585c5bb58c29

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    The last book I read for #DeanStreetDecember literally ended with a murderer smugly smiling & accepting plaudits for his courage and cleverness in shooting a man in the back as he tried to run away. Personally, I find this MUCH more my kind of entertaining.😀
    #AmReading #ebooks #Kobo #GoldenAgeMysteries #ReadersOfMastodon @bookstodon

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    Starting Bush's "The Case of the Missing Men", book 11/15 for my #DeanStreetDecember & laughing at myself: I DID "leap to an unwarranted conclusion based on these initials" not the ACTUAL, REAL writer normal readers would think of - I thought of Albert Campion🤦‍♂️😆🤦‍♂️ #AmReading #ebooks #Kobo #GoldenAgeMysteries @bookstodon

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    2/5 @thestorygraph for "Smouldering Fire" by D. E. Stevenson, a quite astonishing story. Book 10/15 for my #DeanStreetDecember, hooray for spoiler tags!
    #AmReading #ebooks #ReadersOfMastodon @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2daeb934-49ba-490d-b51f-56ba2dcf630b

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    Here's a review of "Molly Comes Home" from the book blogger who's hosting #DeanStreetDecember for the second year in a row. Her blog is an excellent read
    #AmReading #books @bookstodon #bookblogger
    https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2023/12/10/book-review-molly-clavering-love-comes-home/

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    Well THAAAANK YOU #GNUTerryPratchett for 'ruining' a whole page of this book A lengthy passage about a Scottish Highland character's interactions with "the Little People" ends with this question and OF COURSE I read the whole thing mentally substituting "Wee Free" for "Little" - Every.Single.Time 🤣 #AmReading #ebooks #DeanStreetDecember #Discworld @bookstodon

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    @pgcd @bookstodon Yes, I did think that actually 😀

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    @pgcd @bookstodon In an interesting twist, the character is telling the story to a child who says that he "thought fairies were nice, and had wings" and she replies with a lengthy desription of "the Little People" that is eerily prescient of The Wee Free People. "neither good nor bad" being one phrase that particularly resonated

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    D.E. dissing on cousin R.L. - it just so happens to be the first of his I ever read, way back in my tweens #AmReading #DeanStreetDecember #ebooks #SmoulderingFire @bookstodon

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    4.5/5
    @thestorygraph for "Glittering Prizes", book 9/15 for my 2023 #DeanStreetDecember After a dud Dalton, a FINE and FUN Flynn to restore my mood. #AmReading #ebooks #ReadersOfMastodon #GoldenAgeMysteries @bookstodon

    https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/afa3f172-1dd7-4f0e-92d7-d2067396223a

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