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A back-to-work cartoon for
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My cartoon for the latest
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Merry Christmas to my followers! Here is our super creative tree:
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wordsandpeace1 on Instagram: "Our original Christmas tree"
Dive into the fascinating world of Christmas trees and uncover the story behind this festive tradition. From ancient origins to modern-day customs, discover how to create a Christmas tree that's truly...
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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚
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My review of a selection of
#GeorgeEliot
items 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and other essays' from
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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and Other Essays
One of the most famous novelists in the English literar…
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026: Day 24 –
#Christmas
Eve One of your most anticipated books for 2026
#TBR
#Murderbot
#MarthaWells
#scifi
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Countdown to 2026: Day 24 – Christmas Eve
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 24 – Christmas Eve One of your most anticipated books for 2026 I have so far only fo…
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/24/countdown-to-2026-day-24-christmas-eve/
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Countdown to 2026: Day 20 –
#Eggnog
a book that was out of your comfort zone
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The Day of the Triffids,
#scifi
by
#JohnWyndham
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Countdown to 2026: Day 20 – Eggnog
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 20 – Eggnog a book that was out of your comfort zone I love scifi and dystopia, but …
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/20/countdown-to-2026-day-20-eggnog/
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25 days ago
My review of 'The Beasts of Clawstone Castle' (2005) by Eva Ibbotson, the 100th anniversary of whose birth this year is.
#Booksky
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Ghostly goings-on
© C A Lovegrove. The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson. Macmillan Children’s Books, 2014 (2005). This is a story about two youngsters who go to stay for a few months with two elderly…
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National Book Critics Circle
26 days ago
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction
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Tom Gauld
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'My year end reading statistics' (originally for
@theguardian.com
books). p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026: Day 18 –
#Christmas
Cards.
#book
with message
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Orwell's Roses, by
#RebeccaSolnit
Gardens are acts of resistance—eye-opening essays from Stalin’s war on truth to Colombia’s toxic rose trade. Essential reading for our age of lies.
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Countdown to 2026: Day 18 – Christmas cards
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 18 – Christmas Cards a book with a message With a powerful message for our troubled …
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/18/countdown-to-2026-day-18-christmas-cards/
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It’s Time for a New Picture Prompt Book Bingo Challenge for 2026
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It’s Time for a New Picture Prompt Book Bingo Challenge for 2026
In just seventeen days 2025 will be over. Which means, for those of us who are so inclined, that’s it’s time to start planning the reading challenges we want to wrestle with in 2026. And so, …
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026: Day 17 – Glitter A
#book
that you simply have to have Day
#wishlist
#TBR
#Japaneseliterature
#Santa
, are you reading my posts?
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Countdown to 2026: Day 17 – Glitter
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 17 – Glitter A book that you simply have to have Fascinating: in 2024, in 2025, and …
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/17/countdown-to-2026-day-17-glitter/
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28 days ago
New o0n my blog - Books of the Year 2025: Part Four
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Books of the Year 2025: Part Four - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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Read Japanese Literature
28 days ago
Hey, folks! It’s not too late to give the gift of JLit!
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Japanese Books to Give for the Holidays
Do you dream of sharing your love of Japanese literature with the perfect translated book?
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May-lee Chai (she/her)
28 days ago
The NBCC Fiction Award Longlist! Congratulations to all these authors! 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏(stay tuned for the Criticism Longlist, which drops at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET)
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Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism
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Read Japanese Literature
30 days ago
My review of When the Museum Is Closed, “an extended meditation on—almost an allegory for—what it truly means to be objectified, as told by a woman in love with a character who is, truly, a female object.”
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026 Day 13 a magnificent
#book
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Cyborg Fever, by
#LaurieSheck
Labyrinthine fever dreams meet hard science. Real genius minds, AI, cyborgs. Ultimate question: what is the meaning of it all? A mind-bending and eye-opening tour de force.
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Countdown to 2026: Day 13 – Feast
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 13 – Feast a book that was magnificent Cyborg Fever, by Laurie Sheck Scifi /…
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026 Day 12 – Holly and Ivy a book with great world building
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Slan by
#AEvanvogt
#scifi
Have you read it?
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Countdown to 2026: Day 12 – Holly and Ivy
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 12 – Holly and Ivy a book with great world building For the third year in a row, I&#…
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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along
about 1 month ago
#AmericanReadalong
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Trevor Berrett
about 1 month ago
Our new episode is up! And of course it’s that time of year! Here is part one of our top ten reads of 2025. Thanks so much to friends who called in to share their favorites too!
@bibliopaul.bsky.social
and I will be recording part two soon!
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Episode 121: Our Favorite Books We Read in 2025, Part I
In this first installment of our annual year-end wrap-up, we dive into the opening half of our top ten reads of 2025, counting down numbers ten through six and revisiting the books that surprised us, ...
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“His mind could evoke nothing but images of separation, which cut him off from ordinary, normal people, the fortunate ones, the well-beloved. Most of all, he knew, he was cut off from Derek. Derek would not understand at all."
#BookSky
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The House Opposite by Barbara Noble
There is often something very compelling about fiction written and published during World War II, when the outcome of the conflict raging across Europe would have been uncertain. Set during the tur…
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#bookhooks
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
Friday Book Hooks #3 Featuring today a famous
#play
by
#TennesseeWiliams
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Have you read it? Seen it as a play? Wtached it as a movie? What did you think?
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Friday Book Hooks #3
The Friday Book Hooks #2 Meme inspired by Adele Bound in Books #bookhooks #firstlineFriday #bookbeginnings #Friday56 📚 📚 📚 A classic play for my Book Hooks #3: A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennes…
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026 Day 11 Mistletoe: a little bit of
#romance
Judging Athena by
#PerrinLovett
#Christianromance
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A theologically rich Christian romance, a unique, meditative love story that stands out for its innocence, depth, and authenticity.
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Countdown to 2026: Day 11 – Mistletoe
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 11 – Mistletoe a little bit of romance Judging Athena, by Perrin Lovett Chri…
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/11/countdown-to-2026-day-11-mistletoe/
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Chris Lovegrove 💙📚
about 1 month ago
Some thoughts on Macbeth's Three Witches and
#PhilipPullman's
'The Rose Field' in
#TheBookOfDust
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#Booksky
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“To Aleppo gone”
Basawan: ‘Young men being carried off by a Simurgh’, circa 1590. The first anniversary of Aleppo’s liberation from the rule of dethroned Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has just t…
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Find out everything about the latest
#scifi
political
#dystopia
by
#FranckDenizot
@franckdenizot_auteur @dictature_inclusive
#editionsfragrance
when dystopia adopts the codes of
#Netflix
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Inclusive Dictatorship, by Franck Denizot
Inclusive Dictatorship, by Franck Denizot scifi / political dystopia Early 2026 To be published by Éditions Fragrance 60 pages The book will be available in French, in English, and in Russian. For …
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/11/inclusive-dictatorship-by-franck-denizot/
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026: Day 10 - Under the tree a
#book
you forgot you owned
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by
#SalmanRushdie
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Countdown to 2026: Day 10 – Under the tree
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 10 – Under the Tree a book you forgot you owned We’ve been doing quite a few b…
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/10/countdown-to-2026-day-10-under-the-tree/
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#WWWWednesday
Last
#book
I finished:
#Maigret
and the Surly Inspector, by
#GeorgesSimenon
#Amreading
: A Winter Book, by
#ToveJansson
#Amlistening
to: The Big Book of
#Christmas
Mysteries, ed. by
#OttoPenzler
#TBR
Reading next: Greek Lessons, by
#HanKang
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"As we looked upward, the tops of the firs came sharp against the blue sky. There was a great stretch of rough pasture-land round the shoulder of the island to the eastward, and here were all the thick-scattered gray rocks that kept their places..."
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The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Born in Maine, New England in 1849, the American writer Sarah Orne Jewett is known for her works of literary regionalism, a genre of writing in which the local setting, landscape, history, communit…
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about 1 month ago
New review: 𝐴𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑧𝑘𝑜𝑝𝑓: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑠, by Jonas Kreppel
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Adventures of Max Spitzkopf - Jonas Kreppel
A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Adventures of Max Spitzkopf by Jonas Kreppel.
https://www.complete-review.com/reviews/yiddish/kreppelj.htm
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#theclassicsclub
#ccbookreviews
#Book
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: A Streetcar Named Desire a
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Book review: A Streetcar Named Desire
MY VERDICT: Everything you didn’t know about owls: their science, and their place in art and symbolism. Fascinating.
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/10/book-review-a-streetcar-named-desire/
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75 Notable Translations of 2025, per
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World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2025, by Michelle Johnson
The field of translated literature was again robust in 2025.
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026 - Day 9 something magical
#scifi
#poetry
by
#OliverKLangmead
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A unique sci-fi boundary-pushing verse epic: challenging readers to navigate humanity’s choice between technological dominance and ecological stewardship.
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Countdown to 2026: Day 9 – Fairy lights
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 9 – Fairy lights something magical Calypso, by Oliver K. Langmead Scifi poetry! 202…
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/09/countdown-to-2026-day-9-fairy-lights/
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A few days late with this one, but the novel is so well suited to the season... From the archive for Willa Cather, born on 7th Dec 1873, some thoughts on MY ÁNTONIA. This classic novel, set in 19thC America, seems to embody the pioneers' spirit. 💙📚
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My Ántonia by Willa Cather
First published in 1918, My Ántonia is a story of the American Midwest, of the pioneers and European immigrants who settled in the prairies in the late 19th century. The novel is narrated by Jim Bu…
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/my-antonia-by-willa-cather/
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#TopTenTuesday
Top Ten Books for a 2025
#Christmas
song tag
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Top Ten Books for a 2025 Christmas song tag
Top Ten Books for a 2025 Christmas song tag TTT for December 9 #TopTenTuesday 📚 📚 📚 Today’s theme is Books Set in Snowy Places. Snow is not really my thing (I’m already tired of the 8 …
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#Decembercountdown
Countdown to 2026: Day 8 - Baubles: a very colorful and striking cover
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#graphicnovel
#sketchbook
#travelogue
#FlorentChavouet
#Japan
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Countdown to 2026: Day 8 – Baubles
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 8 – Baubles these add some color, a very colorful and striking cover Striking colorf…
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#SpellTheMonthInBooks
#SpellTheMonth
Spell the month in books: December 2025
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Spell the month in books: December 2025
Spell the month in books: December 2025 Click on the logo to join #SpellTheMonthInBooks 📚 📚 📚 I discovered this meme thanks to Marianne @ Let’s read. “The idea is to spell the mont…
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Potential risk
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70s Sci-Fi Art
about 1 month ago
We all know what spaceships look like. But how do artists depict time machines? Sign up for my art blog newsletter and you'll find out in tomorrow's issue:
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Here's the sneak peek: Josh Kirby, Trevor Webb, Karel Thole, and Richard Powers
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Countdown to 2026: Day 7 -
#Christmastree
a
#winter
read
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What was your last winter read?
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Countdown to 2026: Day 7 – Christmas tree
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 7 – Christmas tree a winter read Notes from an Island, by Tove Jansson and T…
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Sunday Post #151: after a busy November
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Sunday Post #151: after a busy November
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have receive…
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/07/sunday-post-151-after-a-busy-november/
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Countdown to 2026: Day 6 – Christmas stocking fillers – a novella or
#shortstory
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#novella
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Countdown to 2026: Day 6 – Christmas stocking
Click on the banner to see all my posts And click here to see Lynn’s full list of prompts #Decembercountdown Day 6 – Christmas stocking stocking fillers – a novella or short story I looked at all t…
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/12/06/countdown-to-2026-day-6-christmas-stocking/
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
about 1 month ago
On the Ramblings today - I share my thoughts on a hugely entertaining pair of British Library Crime Classics!
@blpublishing.bsky.social
@martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social
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Death comes in ambush, and also in high heels! #BLCC
At the start of November, I had a bit of a binge on some GA crime; work was a little manic and I just felt that I needed some time to switch off, so classic mysteries were definitely the best optio…
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/death-comes-in-ambush-and-also-in-high-heels-blcc/
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Six degrees of separation: Benjamin
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Have you read books by authors named Benjamin?
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Six degrees of separation: Benjamin
#6Degrees Six degrees of separation:Benjamin This fun meme is hosted by Kate at Booksaremyfavouriteandbest(see there the origin of the meme and how it works- posted the first Saturday of every mont…
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Friday Book Hooks #2
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The Secret Life of the
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#Birds
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#Nature
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