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  1. Rec 6

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    Here is a story I have heard: Once, long before Xulhan was an empire, in the land cared for by a tribe, on the rocks of warm dry mountains, there was a Sheep, a god who stood out amongst the flocks.

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    25 Dec 2025

  2. Rec 16

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    Lucy Eyelesbarrow is engaged to clean out the house of an old woman who has never thrown anything away--but muddy footprints and a mysterious prowler suggest someone believes there's treasure among the trash.

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    31 Dec 2024

  3. Rec 5

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    "I tossed the newspaper on the desk, pushed back my chair, and grabbed my coat and hat from where they hung on the hook near the door. Time to go out and find some hard facts about this.

    Duncan King had been dead for less than a day, but the whole thing was already starting to stink."

    In which Hecate Jones, PI looks into a suspicious death, and grapples with the shadows of her past.

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    30 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Macbeth as a noir -- it works brilliantly.

  4. Rec 71

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    But here, now, was my chance. I was not the young master to Jeeves now - in fact, Jeeves, in his current role, had no y. m. at all. He was a gentleman of means and breeding, and I a rather fantastically attired birdcatcher of presumably Viennese extraction; and two such fellows could hold a conversation without any wayward “sirs” inserting themselves where they were not wanted.

     

    Or: In which a gentleman and his valet both attend a masquerade under false pretences.

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    30 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    If you like Bertie/Jeeves, you need to read this. A delight.

  5. Rec 13

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    The crops are failing. The sea people are invading. Your beloved father’s corpse is barely cold and your mother has swanned off to marry someone else. You are King Ammurapi of Ugarit, and is it any wonder that your mental health is not great right now?

    A loose retelling of Hamlet set during the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

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    30 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Brilliant retelling.