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4.5/5
@thestorygraph for "Kate Hardy" by D. E. Stevenson, book 15/15 for my

As it is my last, here's a link to all 15 of my reviews for this year:
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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 and here she writes beautifully ABOUT writing. @bookstodon

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

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

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

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Inspired by
having the Niven biography "The Other Side of the Moon' for 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
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Reading Moray Dalton's "Death in the Forest" for 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🤦‍♂️
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"Preantepenultimate" is 1 of my favourite words. So how apt that my preantepenultimate book for 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 )
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https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4c687a2f-a9f2-4460-a8f5-16adf699d3a5

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"Big Publishing is clearly seeing nothing but dollar signs as apps like Hoopla gobble up identity-linked data on readers—and so it would be natural to put our hope in public libraries, which view patron privacy as a fundamental right essential to a functioning democracy." - https://www.fastcompany.com/90996547/e-books-are-fast-becoming-tools-of-corporate-surveillance

Bonus fun fact - OverDrive's reading history setting only hides the history. The data is still being collected - https://ldhconsultingservices.com/deception-by-design/

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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
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4.25/5 @thestorygraph for "The Case of the Missing Men" - book 11/15 for my 2023 Another fun frolic, although I'm wondering if it was also "The Case of the Missing Map"🤔 @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ae0b6120-a3af-47b2-8736-585c5bb58c29

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The last book I read for 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.😀
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Starting Bush's "The Case of the Missing Men", book 11/15 for my & 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🤦‍♂️😆🤦‍♂️ @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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Well THAAAANK YOU 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 🤣 @bookstodon

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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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4.5/5 @thestorygraph for Molly Clavering's "Because of Sam", book 7/15 for me in 2023. Nearly flawless, delivering all the middlebrow muddles and mellow magnanimity one could hope for. @bookstodon https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/72af6223-a3c2-4d46-bd13-9b43f47812dc

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4/5
@thestorygraph for "The Case of the Platinum Blonde" by Christopher Bush. Book 6/15 for my doth conscience make cowards of us all (or at least of Travers and his readers)? Worth finding out, imo.
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40 months in, and adding books remains the one major pain point of my experience @thestorygraph but after 3 hours work, I'm all set for StoryGraphReadsTheWorld2024. Now to hope the promised "Number of books" style challenges arrive soon so I can add these to my "30 nonfiction in 2024". @bookstodon

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🧵 : this the first in a series of that will eventually be stitched together into a related to 📚 and 📘. (1)

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"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887294.001.0001, accessed 16 Dec. 2023.
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"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887294.001.0001, accessed 16 Dec. 2023.
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"Experts have been selected to create a multidisciplinary volume with a thematic approach to the vast subject, tackling administration, army, economy, law, mobility, religion (local and imperial religions and Christianity), social status, and urbanism. They situate the phenomena of Latinization, literacy, bi-, and multilingualism within local and broader social developments and draw together materials and arguments that have not before been coordinated in a single volume."

Mullen, Alex (ed.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 14 Dec. 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198887294.001.0001, accessed 16 Dec. 2023.
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"This interdisciplinary study analyses the connections between literary Modernism and right-wing ideology. Moreover, it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology."

Frisch, K. (2019) The F-Word. Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the far right. https://doi.org/10.30819/4972. #OpenAccess #OA #English #Language #Literature #Rightwing #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Reading @bookstodon (70)

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