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Review – Cackle

Posted October 7, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 7 Comments

Review – Cackle

Cackle

by Rachel Harrison

Genres: Horror
Pages: 320
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her long-time boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching job that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. Her new home is picturesque and perfect. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is lovely too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation.

Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming, magnetic Sophie, who takes a special interest in Annie, who wants to be her friend. More importantly, she wants Annie to stop apologizing and start living for herself. That’s how Sophie lives. Annie can’t help but gravitate toward the self-possessed Sophie, wanting to spend more and more time with her, despite the fact that the rest of the town seems… a little afraid of her. And, okay. Sophie’s appearance is uncanny and ageless, her mansion in the middle of the woods feels a little unearthly, and she does seem to wield a certain power… but she couldn’t be… could she?

Rachel Harrison’s Cackle starts out feeling surprisingly cosy and familiar: a girl breaks up with her long-term boyfriend (who clearly doesn’t appreciate her enough), and strikes out on her own to a small town where everyone’s friendly and everything feels warm and welcoming. Life’s still hard and she’s grieving the relationship, but she meets a new friend who’s warm and encouraging and helps her open up to more of the world’s possibilities.

With spiders. And maybe ghosts? And curses? Everyone in the town is scared of this friend, Sophie, even though she’s always nice to Annie. The unease builds up slowly, and at the same time there’s still that cosiness: Sophie sees Annie and wants to bake with her, make her pretty clothes, watch Netflix with her. The spider is surprisingly endearing.

It all ends up feeling weirdly… ambivalent? Sure, Sophie scares the townspeople, and it’s fairly clear that she’s amoral and self-centered. At the same time, some comeuppance is deserved, and Annie does deserve to be valued, and to learn that she didn’t need that guy: some of the stuff that is unsettling is just that Sophie has power, without it being obvious that she’s actually going to do anything with it (whether that’s evict someone or curse them).

Cosy-unsettling is a fascinating vibe, and overall I really enjoyed this. Annie’s self-pity got a bit wearing at times, and Sophie’s attitude to others sometimes feels a bit too off — but you can’t help but be eager for Annie’s freedom, once she finally figures things out.

One thing I would say: if you’re struggling with depression or alcoholism, this probably isn’t the book for you. Annie’s definitely depressed and definitely self-medicates with alcohol.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Top Ten Tuesday: Satisfying Series

Posted October 7, 2025 by Nicky in General / 28 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme is about satisfying series, so let’s see what I can come up with!

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  1. The Peter Wimsey books, by Dorothy L. Sayers. At first, Lord Peter seems like a fairly standard series detective, with a distinctive background and manner, but no real chronology or development between books. But then in Strong Poison a love interest is introduced: she doesn’t appear in every book (e.g. The Nine Tailors or Five Red Herrings), but over the course of the books where she does appear, her relationship with Peter slowly develops until she is certain of her feelings and ready to accept his hand in marriage. The series ends with Busman’s Honeymoon, in which they’re married and different threads of their characters and experiences come together beautifully, as she understands his shellshock and he finds something of a shelter from it and the world. It’s a heck of a journey from Peter’s first appearance on-page, and very satisfying.
  2. The Phryne Fisher mysteries, by Kerry Greenwood. There is a thread of character development running through the stories, but they’re pretty episodic/mystery-of-the-week, and you can dip in at most stages and be able to follow the action. This series is satisfying because it has a few predictable elements (beautiful young men, lovely food cooked by Mrs Butler, ravishing fashion as worn by Phryne herself) and always delivers.
  3. The Memoirs of Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan. A perennial favourite of mine. Rereading it is just as satisfying as a first read, maybe more so, because you can see how the pieces will come together and how Isabella’s great discoveries will be made, what they’re leading to, etc. Each book adds on another block, until the last book — well. No major spoilers, this one’s worth experiencing for yourself. She also gets a personal arc of loss, grief, and second chances which is very satisfying too.
  4. The Imperial Radch books, by Ann Leckie. Mostly the original trilogy; I loved Provenance and liked Translation State, but the original trilogy is a safe happy place for me. Not that the books are in any way cosy, quite the opposite, but there’s something about Breq, Saivarden, and the cast of characters around them that just calls me back every so often.
  5. Earthsea, by Ursula Le Guin. I don’t know of many authors so willing to look back at an earlier book, realise that there was something unpleasant about it — something they didn’t mean to say — and then work with it/against it so ably, within the world. Le Guin realised that A Wizard of Earthsea was sexist as heck, and then spent the rest of the books replying to it within the bounds she’d already set. And the best part is that A Wizard of Earthsea isn’t bad, it has a lot of beautiful stuff to say and is a book that’s very important to me, but the other books add to it and play with it and make it better.
  6. The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper. I love these books so much. I read my copy to pieces, and every word of the books is familiar to me now, so much so that I’ve been giving it a long rest before reading it again. It plays with mythology and folklore, with huge and terrifying forces, and then at the end hands responsibility back to us. There are aspects that are a little iffy (the Dark rising with waves of immigrants who are then tamed by the land; I think this is mostly about invasions, like the Norse, the Saxons, the Normans, but it has worrisome connotations even paired with the scene where Stephen and Will defend an immigrant boy), and it probably feels very dated now to a young person coming fresh to it… but all the same, I love it.
  7. The Greta Helsing series, by Vivian Shaw. Okay, I haven’t actually read the most recent book, but I’m sure it’s going to be a lot of fun. I love the idea of a doctor who treats monsters, and I love Greta’s dedication to the task, and the found family of Ruthven and Varney and Fass and Greta and and and. I admit I’d thought the third book was intended to be the end, and it would’ve been a very appropriate one, but I’m excited to read further.
  8. Heaven Official’s Blessing, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. This story really goes places. It takes a while for all the pieces to come together, with two extended flashbacks filling in Xie Lian’s past, but when it does… wow. As a reader you certainly have to wait for the full payoff, and there’s a lot of suffering for Xie Lian (and various other characters, but primarily Xie Lian) along the way — but it really, really pays off. And there’s a reason there’s an AO3 tag, “Hualian invented love”: the devotion between Xie Lian and Hua Cheng is intense and their love story spans 800 years.
  9. Fairyland, by Catherynne M. Valente. I reread this series every so often because I love the narrative voice. I don’t always love Valente’s writing — sometimes it gets too lyrical and purple-prosey for me — but it hits a sweet spot with Fairyland, calling on the same kind of warm, parental narrator’s tone as C.S. Lewis’ best moments, and September’s whole journey is a lot of fun.
  10. A Side Character’s Love Story, by Akane Tamura. This series isn’t finished yet, but I already reread it once, because Hiroki and Nobuko’s relationship is just so cute. A slow-burner at first, but I love that they communicate and figure things out together, and the character growth they both get through the story. Plus there are some fun side characters, too.

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Okay, that took me a bit of thinking, and I’m sure I could come up with a whole different list if you gave me long enough — but there’s some nice variety here, so let’s go with this.

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Review – Fence, vol 5

Posted October 6, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 2 Comments

Review – Fence, vol 5

Fence: Rise

by C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, Joanna LaFuente, Jim Campbell

Genres: Graphic Novels
Pages: 110
Series: Fence #5
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

En Garde! Excitement is in the air as Nicholas and his friends celebrate their prestigious invitation to the Halverton Training Camp. But they soon find themselves pushed to their limits as they come face-to-face with the best teams in the country. Will a new addition to the opposing team help Nicholas awaken the fighting spirit he needs to prevail? And what will it mean for his friendship with Seiji?

So much to love about the fifth volume of C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad’s Fence! Bobby is adorable, and I love that he gets to be the team manager, and I especially love the relationship between him and Dante. The fact that Dante would clearly get into anything Bobby wants to do is just… gaah, so cute.

Nicholas and Seiji’s relationship continues to develop, as well, and I like that though Nicholas has some flashes of brilliance and speed, the story never pretends he’s going to easily skill-up to beat Seiji. He has a long way to go, for all his enthusiasm and bluster, and we see that repeatedly, even where it might be tempting to give him a quick glow-up to match Seiji.

I do also enjoy Harvard and Aiden’s closeness; please just date, you idiots.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Review – A History of the World in 47 Borders

Posted October 5, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – A History of the World in 47 Borders

A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps

by Jonn Elledge

Genres: History, Non-fiction
Pages: 352
Rating: two-stars
Synopsis:

People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot about how political identities are shaped, why the world looks the way it does - and about the scale of human folly.

From the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilisation, to the secret British-French agreement to carve up the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, to the reason why landlocked Bolivia still maintains a navy, this is a fascinating, witty and surprising look at the history of the world told through its borders.

Jonn Elledge’s A History of the World in 47 Borders is very breezy and flippant, and that’s both part of what makes it enjoyable and part of what makes it frustrating. It turns out that 47 (48 in the edition I have, actually, since an additional chapter on Poland is included) chapters leave not a lot of pages to cover each border, including some very complicated situations that have sparked wars and genocides. He sometimes makes light of the issues in a way that makes me uncomfortable, because they haven’t always been possible to reduce to a snarky footnote.

I did learn stuff from this book, and enjoy too in some ways, but… at the same time, it really is brief, and I don’t think I could explain most of it reasonably clearly to anyone else, it’s so simplified. The sources worry me, given that (for example) the sources on the Partition of India turn out to be chiefly two documentaries. Now, the documentaries do apparently include (alleged) first-hand accounts, but. Hm.

As a piece of popular history writing, I should possibly rate it higher — I did enjoy it and found it reasonably absorbing. But doubts grew as I read, and, well, here I am.

Rating: 2/5 (“it was okay”)

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Review – Strange Houses

Posted October 4, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 6 Comments

Review – Strange Houses

Strange Houses

by Uketsu

Genres: Crime, Mystery
Pages: 208
Rating: three-stars
Synopsis:

A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of unsettling floorplans, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu.

A mysterious windowless room on a house's floorplan hints at a hideous secret

A young girl suspects that her cousin's seemingly accidental death was the result of a sinister family tradition

Can you uncover the dark secret of these strange houses? When you do, an unforgettable truth will be revealed.

I really enjoyed the puzzle of Uketsu’s Strange Pictures, so I was really looking forward to Strange Houses, and if anything I think I enjoyed it even more. I ended up reading it really fast, all in one go. I learned from the past and made sure I read it in a physical copy, which made it easier to leaf back and forth looking at the plans (though they’re often repeated and zoomed in etc to follow the analysis in the story, which is helpful).

It’s fun to try and guess what’s going on, and in this book it was a bit easier because you knew all the different floorplans are linked, which helps (you know the sort of thing you’re looking for in each case).

Of course, the answer to the mystery is very convoluted and dramatic, but that was pretty much as expected after reading Strange Pictures, and it felt right for the story that there was this grand… almost a conspiracy theory behind the weird houses.

Overall, looking forward to Strange Buildings, which I gather is coming in 2026? Sooner would be great!

Rating: 3/5 (“liked it”)

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Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Posted October 4, 2025 by Nicky in General / 22 Comments

It’s been a quiet week around here, though I’ve definitely been reading!

Books acquired this week

N/a! A few books I’m interested in are releasing in the coming week, though, so maybe I’ll have more to show next week.

Posts from this week

Mostly just reviews this week, so let’s do a quick roundup!

And also the usual What Are You Reading Wednesday post.

What I’m reading

First, as always, a quick sneak peek at the books I’ve read this week that I plan to review on the blog!

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I did also do a couple of rereads, like the fourth volume of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, which I don’t plan to review again, so it’s been a busy week!

I’m not sure what I’ll focus on over the weekend. I’ve dug into rereading Jordan L. Hawk’s Outfoxing the Paranormal series, so I might get up to reading the newest of the series. I’ve also started on a real chonker, The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club, which is long slow reading, and I’ll probably read a chapter or two of that.

But as ever, it’ll be whatever I feel like, in the end!

Linking up with Reading Reality’s Stacking the Shelves, Caffeinated Reviewer’s The Sunday Post, and the Sunday Salon over at Readerbuzz.

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Review – The Love Hypothesis

Posted October 3, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – The Love Hypothesis

The Love Hypothesis

by Ali Hazelwood

Genres: Romance
Pages: 373
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos.

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor--and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding...six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.

If I was a bit cautious about Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis, it was because of the premise of a grad student dating a professor — obviously pretty dodgy ground. That’s handled in this case by the two of them having almost nothing to do with each other: they’re in adjacent fields, but Adam isn’t Olive’s supervisor, isn’t on her committee, etc, etc. Some doors are possibly being opened for Olive because her association with him brought her to people’s notice, but Adam can’t make or break Olive’s career, and a breakup can’t really cause issues for her in that sense. So that worry was pretty assuaged. (There is someone abusing their power over a grad student in the story, but it isn’t Adam.)

As a character, Adam is also attentive to that, checking with their institution to make sure there are no rules prohibiting their dating (at the point when it’s fake dating, though obviously as readers we know where it’s going to go). He’s also careful about consent when they do have sex, or at least tries to be (Olive’s very dismissive of the concern, and doesn’t regret having sex with him).

The other red flag is Adam’s grumpy reputation, but that also gets discussed a fair bit. There’s nuance there: he’s harsh on the work, but not (intentionally) on the student, and his motive is always to get good science out of the person in question. With Olive, he’s got a softer side, as you’d expect in a romance novel — but it also becomes clear he has friends, it’s not just that Olive’s special.

So overall the relationship with pretty cute, and I also enjoyed Olive’s close friendships with Anh and Malcolm, which were a pretty major feature as well.

It was also pretty cool that Olive’s clearly intended to be demisexual, even though the word isn’t used. There isn’t a great amount of angst about it, Olive is just wired differently and knows it, though there might be the odd point where she thinks about it as being ‘broken’ or ‘wrong’ — in a very typical way for people who are demi/asexual, to be fair. I don’t remember anything really glaring out at me.

I won’t spoiler any of the key story beats, but overall it comes together pretty satisfyingly. There is a bit of miscommunication/not telling someone something where really you should believe that they will absolutely believe you and help you, but it didn’t drag on too long, so it didn’t annoy me too much. There are a couple of points I felt embarrassment squicky, but not every single chapter or anything, so that was… more or less okay.

The villain of the piece felt maybe a bit… exaggerated? But that’s sort of needed in order for Olive to have the evidence she needs, plot-wise, and it does (unfortunately) happen pretty much just like that in real life, after all.

So overall, a read I enjoyed quite a bit.

(NB: I became aware later that it’s serial-numbers-filed-off Reylo fanfic, apparently? I wouldn’t have noticed, not a fandom I know well, and I thought it worked fine on its own terms. It doesn’t try to reference Star Wars that I’m aware, other than in naming a character after Adam Driver.)

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Review – The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

Posted October 2, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 6 Comments

Review – The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association

by Caitlin Rozakis

Genres: Fantasy
Pages: 365
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

Two parents and their recently-bitten-werewolf daughter try to fit into a privileged New England society of magic aristocracy. But deadly terrors await them – ancient prophecies, remorseless magical trials, hidden conspiracies and the PTA bake sale.

When Vivian’s kindergartner, Aria, gets bitten by a werewolf, she is rapidly inducted into the hidden community of magical schools. Reeling from their sudden move, Vivian finds herself having to pick the right sacrificial dagger for Aria, keep stocked up on chew toys and play PTA politics with sirens and chthonic nymphs and people who literally can set her hair on fire.

As Vivian careens from hellhounds in the school corridors and demons at the talent show, she races to keep up with all the arcane secrets of her new society – shops only accessible by magic portal, the brutal Trials to enter high school, and the eternal inferno that is the parents’ WhatsApp group.

And looming over everything is a prophecy of doom that sounds suspiciously like it’s about Aria. Vivian might be facing the end of days, just as soon as she can get her daughter dressed and out of the door…

Caitlin Rozakis’ The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association is a pretty fun book about parenting a werewolf kid, learning to fit into a whole new community, and the fact that there’s always the mean clique, wherever you go.

I’ve seen it touted as cosy, so I would point out that the main character has childhood trauma (which isn’t discussed in great detail, but is obvious from the way she blames herself for every single thing) and adulthood trauma from seeing her child’s throat bitten out by a werewolf right in front of her. There’s a lot of drama, and though there’s fun worldbuilding and amusing references and all of that, there’s also a lot of emotional stuff going on.

Speaking of which, Vivian honestly gets a bit frustrating at times because of this: she tries to blame everything on herself, she shuts her husband out (though he’s not blameless either, to be clear), she sees things in black and white, and is quite prepared to repeat her parents’ mistakes. There’s some ambiguity about some of the people she’s choosing to suck up to, but Cecily is an obvious awful snob the entire time, and Vivian herself blindly ignores all the warning bells because this will be “best for Aria” (when it clearly isn’t). She is trying very hard, buuut at times her behaviour and wilful ignorance is annoying.

For those wary of anything mentioning Harry Potter, this book doesn’t mention it by name, but references it a couple of times (not super positively). So that’s worth knowing, and it’s definitely unavoidably influenced by it (though personally I’d have skipped mentioning it at all). It’s not just Hogwarts with the serial numbers filed off, to be clear: it deals with younger children, and feels very American.

It did get to a point near the end where I kinda went, c’mon, we’ve figured it out already, let’s wrap this up, and certain aspects of it were pretty predictable… but mostly I enjoyed the wrap-up, even if I could’ve done with a bit less of Vivian kicking herself first. Overall, worked pretty well, and I had fun.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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Review – Mooncop

Posted October 1, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 6 Comments

Review – Mooncop

Mooncop

by Tom Gauld

Genres: Graphic Novels, Science Fiction
Pages: 96
Rating: four-stars
Synopsis:

"Living on the moon . . . Whatever were we thinking? . . . It seems so silly now."

The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon.

Mooncop is equal parts funny and melancholy. capturing essential truths about humanity and making this a story of the past, present, and future, all in one. Like his Guardian and New Scientist strips, as well as his previous graphic novel, Goliath, Mooncop is told with Tom Gauld's distinctive, matter-of-fact storytelling and dry humor -- an approach that has earned him fans around the world.

If you like Tom Gauld’s art, Mooncop isn’t exactly a great departure for him in style. It’s pretty much exactly the style he uses in his strips for New Scientist and the Guardian, but this time it’s a continuous story. Not a very plotty story, it must be admitted, but nonetheless there’s a narrative here.

It’s a surprisingly melancholy one, and that feeling comes through perfectly despite an art style that I’d more usually associate with funny science or reading-based humour. There are very few characters, and quite a bit of repetition, showing us the life of the “Mooncop” as people leave the moon and head back to Earth.

It ends on an open note, preserving the melancholy feel. Will Mooncop stay on the moon much longer? Will the last other remaining person go back to Earth, too? That’s left for you to imagine.

I rather enjoyed it — it’s simple, but effective.

Rating: 4/5 (“really liked it”)

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WWW Wednesday

Posted October 1, 2025 by Nicky in Reviews / 10 Comments

Cover of The Bookshop Below by Georgia SummersWhat have you recently finished reading?

The last thing I finished, approximately five minutes ago, was John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, which was mostly interesting because of its influence and because Lord Ruthven is a major character in the Greta Helsing books. It was interesting to finally read it, and to read it as a diss on Byron, but it is also mercifully short.

Last night I finished off the last of my planned September reads, my ARC of Georgia Summers’ The Bookshop Below, and a reread of volume nine of A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, so that was nice. The magic in The Bookshop Below reminded me a lot of Ink Blood Sister Scribe, and it felt like it was never fully explained/delimited… but that didn’t bother me too much, I think? I need to sit down and put together my thoughts properly.

Cover of The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System vol 4 by MXTXWhat are you currently reading?

Well, nothing, actually. Not even books on the backburner, really, except ones that have been backburnered so long I “paused” them on StoryGraph. I’m about to start my reread of volume four of The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, to wrap that all up before reading some new-to-me danmei in October.

It feels weird not to have anything on the go; I’ll fix that posthaste.

Cover of The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. HawkWhat will you be reading next?

I’ll probably reread volume ten of A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation, while volume nine is fresh in my mind — I wish I hadn’t left such a gap between volume eight and volume nine, honestly, since they contain one of the only true plot arcs in the manga so far, and one where all the pieces take time to come together.

Other than that, my Book Spin Bingo list for October is ready, although the numbers haven’t been announced yet, so maybe something from that. I want to reread Jordan L. Hawk’s The Forgotten Dead and Rattling Bone before I get onto the latest book in the series, Into the Dark, so perhaps I’ll start with those.

As ever, I’ll be mostly going by whim.

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