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#weeklyfavorites @Read4life 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃 Loved this weird dark cozy sci-fi! Full of quirky characters, lots of intrigue, and a fantastic setting, this book checked all my boxes.

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Robotswithpersonality

Spy x Family, Vol. 14 | Tatsuya Endo

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Always reassuring when a long running series has a particularly good entry in a later volume. As has happened in the past, this one shone not because it was particularly zany (though the comic quality of this series is to be treasured) but because it managed a multi-episode narrative that was semi-serious in tone, and, as has regularly appeared in the series, commentary on how war affects people as individuals.
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Robotswithpersonality 2/? Because half the book focused on characters that have never had the spotlight before, it was engaging to read their backstory, but it does mean that we get less time with other characters. This volume still had a lot of time for Anya and her school shenanigans, and even space for a short-lived closed circle mystery with possible supernatural serial killer that I honestly would happily have read a whole graphic novel about, but Loid and Yor 12h

Robotswithpersonality 3/3 definitely got short shrift as a result. Hopefully we get more of their combination of badassery and hijinks in the next volume.
⚠️Discussion of war deaths 12h

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Robotswithpersonality

Spy x Family, Vol. 14 | Tatsuya Endo

Pfft. 😏

GingerAntics 🤣😂🤣 16h

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IReadThereforeIBlog

Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War | Giles Milton

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Giles Milton is a writer and best-selling historian. This very readable and informative book explores Berlin between 1945 and 1950 sets out how the agreement between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference set the seeds for the Berlin Blockade and the Cold War. Extensively footnoted and drawing on personal papers from Colonel Frank Howley it‘s particularly good on the specifics of governing and everyday life in post-war Berlin.

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papascott33

Slow Horses | Mick Herron

#42 of 2025! Slough House No. 1
Started: 11/24/25

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MidnightBookGirl

Floating Hotel | Grace Curtis

My current read for book club.

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CatMS

Gabriel's Moon | William Boyd

Looking at Goodreads I have discovered I have read several books by William Boyd over the years and have given them 4 or 5 stars. Gabriel's Moon is the first of the Gabriel Dax novels and even though I am only on page 31 know I will love another of his books. Those of his unread are on my TBR list, he is a favorite author.

Ruthiella I‘ve definitely liked some more than others but the first book I read from Boyd remains an all time favorite

Any Human Heart

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Eggbeater

Floating Hotel | Grace Curtis

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I liked this "cozy" sci fi but I wish I had read it in print instead of listening to it on audio. There were too many characters and little sub plots for my brain to keep up with without being able to refer back to a hard copy. But I did get into it.

I'm not sure I would have labeled it a cozy when there was mild torture and murder and an evil empire with familiar traits. It seemed too stressful in parts to be cozy.

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