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An end of week recap<\/h4>\n

\u201cGreen was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly<\/em>.\u201d
\u2013\u00a0Pablo Neruda<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Tomorrow is Father\u2019s Day in many countries and National Beer Day<\/a> in the UK, which without wishing to generalise, seem rather a good fit. Today, oddly enough, is World Gin Day<\/a>, so I foresee a squiffy weekend ahead.<\/p>\n

Writers and poets have quite a reputation for imbibing \u2013 just think Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Zelda, too) \u2013 and how about cocktail lover Dorothy Parker who once joked that she wasn\u2019t a \u201cwriter with a drinking problem\u201d but \u201ca drinker with a writing problem!\u201d<\/p>\n

If you prefer reading to boozing but would still like to par(hic)ipate, may I suggest Good Morning, Midnight<\/em><\/a> by Jean Rhys or The Lost Weekend<\/em><\/a> by Charles R. Jackson? \u2013 but be warned, they may turn you off having \u2018a cold one\u2019 or a sip of Mother\u2019s Ruin<\/a> for the rest of your naturals. Toxic or intoxicating? Fancy another? Umm\u2026 isn\u2019t it your round?<\/p>\n

As ever, this is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming publications, see what folk have on their nightstands and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.<\/p>\n

CHATTERBOOKS >><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are planning a reading event, challenge, competition, or anything else likely to be of interest to the book blogging community and its followers, please let me know<\/a>. I will happily share your news here with the fabulous array of bibliowonks who read this weekly wind up.<\/p>\n

* One Thing and Another (and Another) *<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three Things\u2026 #7<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: This sporadic post covering all manner of things I\u2019ve recently read, watched and done\/thought (the latter varies from one TT<\/em><\/a> to the next) is where I hold forth on matters both serious and silly. This time it\u2019s mostly about letters, locomotives and Liverpool. You are invited along for the ride!<\/p>\n

* Pick Apart a French Classic This Fall *<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cTime for a Review-Along!<\/em><\/a>\u201d Or so say the hosts of a new (to me, but I\u2019m completely out of the loop on this one. Where have I been?) reading event at FictionFan\u2019s Book Reviews<\/strong> and Kelly\u2019s Thoughts & Ramblings<\/strong>. Discussions have been taking place and a decision reached that the next challenge will take place \u201cthis autumn (or spring, if you\u2019re one of the upside-down people [charming! \ud83d\ude43]).\u201d A book has been selected from Kelly\u2019s Classics Club<\/strong><\/a> and the title (ta-da!) is none other than French literary realist Gustave Flaubert\u2019s 1856 novel Madame Bovary<\/em><\/a>. In case you were wondering what a Review-Along entails (though, you\u2019ve probably done this before), you simply \u201cread the book at a time and pace of your own choosing, and post your review on the chosen date, which is\u201d: 20th<\/sup> October 2025. For those who don\u2019t have a blog, you are invited to \u201cleave your thoughts [about] the book in the comments section of [FictionFan\u2019s] review on the day.\u201d You can find all you need to know about taking part under the sub-heading, Volunteers, take one step forward!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

* Almost Overlooked *<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Last March, Srilagna Majumdar of TheDaak Review<\/strong> (\u201ca place for receiving and sending letters [\u2026] written from one book lover to another\u201d), shared her thoughts on The Unwomanly Face of War<\/em><\/a> (translated by Larissa Volokhonsky) \u2013 a book in which dozens of Soviet women who fought in the Second World War recall the experience of \u00a0being on \u201cthe front lines, on the home front and in the occupied territories [fighting] alongside [the] men\u201d. They \u201csaved lives in the no man\u2019s land, took the lives of rivals in unimaginably difficult situations and spent the rest of their [days] reliving the harsh memories\u201d, says Srilagna. The Nobel Prize-winning author, \u201cinvestigative journalist, essayist and oral historian,\u201d Svetlana Alexievich collected their stories in what is described here as a \u201chumongous task\u201d, involving \u201ctravelling thousands of miles [\u2026] and recording the experiences of these women\u201d, leading to the publication of this \u201cunprecedented analysis of war through a fine-gendered lens.\u201d Please read the full review at The Unwomanly Face of War: Raw, Naked, Real<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Lit Crit Blogflash * \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am going to share with you a couple of my favourite posts from around the blogosphere. There are a great many talented writers producing high-quality book features and reviews, which made it difficult to pick only these two \u2013 both published in the last week or so:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Spring Begins by Katherine Dunning<\/em><\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Simon Thomas<\/a> drew my attention to Caro\u2019s Bookcase<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018wonderful review\u2019 of Katherine Dunning\u2019s 1934 novel, The Spring Begins<\/em><\/a> \u2013 which has recently been republished as part of the British Library Women Writers\u2019 series. A story about three women at different stages in their lives, this slim volume is actually \u201cset in the heat of summer\u201d as, apparently, the spring in the title alludes to \u201cthe awakening\u201d of its protagonists (all of whom are in domestic service). \u201cIt is not a plot-y book,\u201d but the characters\u2019 different \u201cperspectives kept [her] glued to the page.\u201d The author \u201cdoes a fantastic job of capturing the tension, unease, and vulnerability of being a woman, especially [\u2026] a woman in domestic service in the 1930s\u201d, says Caro, and she concludes by declaring her admiration for Dunning\u2019s story. She was, we discover, \u201cswept away\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Book Review: Hemlock Bay by Martin Edwards \u2013 a cosy mystery with plenty of Golden Age panache<\/em><\/strong><\/a> \u2013 British \u2018writer, reviewer and all-round bookworm\u2019, Judith McKinnon \u201cwas in the mood for a cosy mystery\u201d when she picked up Hemlock Bay<\/em><\/a> by crime writer Martin Edwards (real-life President of the Detection Club<\/a>) \u2013 the fifth in his series of Rachel Savernake investigations. This \u201cpleasurable read\u201d begins with Basil Palmer, who is planning a murder in the North of England seaside resort of the title\u201d, which involves pushing the victim off a cliff. Meanwhile, \u201camateur sleuth, Rachel, has just bought a painting, also of Hemlock Bay\u201d and it appears to show a body on the beach. An image she cannot get out of her mind. \u201cThe story is peppered with many interesting characters\u201d, says Judith, and the whole thing \u201ccomes together with a twisty plot and a barrel of surprises at the end\u201d. Despite everything, there is \u201cplenty of warmth and humour\u201d, not to mention \u201csmart writing\u201d in this book and she has rated it \u201ca four-star read\u201d.<\/p>\n

* Irresistible Items *<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Umpteen fascinating articles appeared on my bookdar last week. I generally make a point of\u00a0tweeting\/x-ing<\/a>\u00a0(not to mention tooting<\/a> and bsky-ing<\/a>) a few favourite finds (or adding them to my Facebook group<\/a> page), but in case you missed anything, here are a selection of interesting snippets:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Wardrobe Door: Inspiration Behind Unpublished Tolkien Villain<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Founder of Morris Motors Limited and fascist-sympathiser William Morris is thought to have been the basis for the industrialist in The Bovadium Fragments<\/em><\/a> \u2013 \u201cpossibly the last of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s unpublished works to be published,\u201d says Aaron Earls. It will be published on 9th<\/sup> October 2025.<\/p>\n

EL PA\u00cdS: The Spanish literature of New York City<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThe 2025 Madrid Book Fair is dedicated to the American city. Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez and Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca made it a key muse of Spanish poetry in the 20th century. Since then, successive generations of writers have continued to nourish New York\u2019s inexhaustible narrative\u201d says Andrea Aguilar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Nation.: Antigone Kefala and the Art of Exile<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Madeleine Watts finds \u201cthe Australian writer\u2019s 1984 novel, The Island<\/em><\/a>, is a hypnotic work of fiction about the border between life and art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metropolis: <\/strong>Why Are There So Many Cats in Japanese Fiction?<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cLiterary symbol or cultural cliche?\u201d deliberates Jessie Carbutt.<\/p>\n

4Columns: <\/strong>Lili Is Crying<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cBeauty and brutality, repression and rage: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Bessette\u2019s 1953 roman po\u00e9tique [Lili Is Crying<\/em><\/a>] is a work in defiance of novelistic time\u201d, writes Jennifer Kabat of a French novel freshly translated by Kate Briggs.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Review: The Thinking Machine <\/a><\/strong>\u2013 \u201cWhat do we mean when we call a novel \u2018urgent?\u2019\u201d Violinist and writer Robbie Herbst on \u201cDean Kissick, Paul Lynch, Claire Keegan, Leon Trotsky\u201d and political art.<\/p>\n

Scroll.in: <\/strong>\u2018The Wanderer\u2019: The opportunity and oppression, romance and violence of train travel in India<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 V Shinilal\u2019s The Wanderer<\/em><\/a> \u201cis a novel of ideas\u201d, says Saloni Sharma. \u201cIt studies human behaviour, contextualising it within socio-cultural politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New Statesman: <\/strong>The epic of James Joyce<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cHow Richard Ellmann\u2019s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing.\u201d Lyndall Gordon reviews Ellmann\u2019s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Library Journal: <\/strong>LJ Talks with Anthropologist Kendra Coulter, Author of \u2018The Tortoise\u2019s Tale\u2019<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Anthropologist Kendra Coulter, author of The Tortoise\u2019s Tale<\/em><\/a>, is \u201ca leading voice in animal ethics and sustainability\u201d. She answers questions about her \u201cinspiration to write [\u2026] historical fiction\u201d, creating her tortoise novel and her current projects.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The New York Times: These Fantasy Novels Breathe New Life Into Old Myths<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cDrawing on folklore traditions from around the world, these thrilling and entertaining books put fresh spins on classic tales.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Malahat Review: <\/strong>From Short Story to Book: Sarah Kilian interviews Sara Power<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Sarah Kilian talks with Sara Power, a storyteller from Labrador and a former artillery officer in the Canadian Forces, about \u201cthe benefits of writing partners, [\u2026] how endings are the true signature of the short form\u201d and her debut short fiction collection, Art of Camouflage<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s Book Review: A Brief Argument for Short Books<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Joel J Miller offers \u201c7 reasons to love short books\u2014plus 16 slender specimens to try on for size.\u201d<\/p>\n

Artnet: <\/strong>The Moomins Changed Children\u2019s Literature Forever. Now They\u2019re Getting a Major U.S. Show<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cHosted at the Brooklyn Public Library, the exhibition takes a deep dive into the Moomin universe and the work of creator Tove Jansson\u201d, reveals Annikka Olsen.<\/p>\n

Full Stop: <\/strong>A Fictional Inquiry \u2013 Daniele Del Giudice<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cIn A Fictional Inquiry<\/em><\/a> [translated from the Italian into English for the first time by Anne Milano Appel], representation is a matter of collecting loose ends and leaving them loose\u201d, says Noah Slaughter of a novel first published in 1983 and championed by Italo Calvino.<\/p>\n

Reactor: <\/strong>The Theater Kids at the End of the World<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cWhat kind of art thrives after the end of (or drastic change to) the world\u201d? wonders Molly Templeton. She attempts here to answer that question.<\/p>\n

The Broken Compass: <\/strong>The writer\u2019s bookshelf: Ann Kennedy Smith<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 In the latest in his series of \u201cquick Q&As\u201d, Mathew Lyons has a conversation with Irish writer, researcher and literary critic Ann Kennedy Smith, author of Painted Poetry: Colour in Baudelaire\u2019s Art Criticism<\/em><\/a>, about her favourite childhood book, the last great book she read, a literary guilty pleasure and much more.<\/p>\n

Africa is a Country: <\/strong>Return the gods<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, a British Nigerian writer, cultural mythographer and founder of The Afrodeities Codex, a mytho-literary archive of African mythology, explains the motivation behind the creation of her digital archive of African deities.<\/p>\n

The Wire: <\/strong>Translating Korea: The Importance of Anton Hur<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Soumashree Sarkar writes: \u201cThe translator is among the five judges who have selected Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi\u2019s Heart Lamp<\/em><\/a> for the International Booker Prize. The time is ripe to observe how his public persona contributes to our understanding of Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Washington Independent Review of Books: <\/strong>Slither: How Nature\u2019s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Mariko Hewer poses the question: \u201cIf not Satan, why Satan-shaped?\u201d in a review of Stephen S. Hall\u2019s Slither: How Nature\u2019s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World<\/em><\/a> \u2013 a scientific and cultural study of snakes.<\/p>\n

Global Voices: <\/strong>A niche publisher is using Asian literature to bring Taiwan and Japan closer to Ukraine<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cDuring the Stalinist purges in the 1930s, Ukrainians were forbidden to study or research East Asia\u201d, writes Filip Noubel.<\/p>\n

Galley Beggar \u2013 Pressing Issues: Wildly into Woking<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cHow HG Wells changed literature and history, invented the future, and killed his neighbours. All from a semi-detached house in suburbia, which a friend and I failed to visit\u201d, says Sam Jordison in this piece on science fiction classic The War of the Worlds<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier: <\/strong>Reading Group Notes on the Works of Daphne du Maurier by Dr Serena Trowbridge<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Serena Trowbridge, a Reader in Victorian Literature at the School of English (Birmingham City University) who teaches a module on Gothic Literature to final-year students, has made her Reading Group notes available to the official Daphne du Maurier website. They can be downloaded in pdf format.<\/p>\n

BBC Culture: <\/strong>Frederick Forsyth: Life as a thriller writer, fighter pilot, journalist and spy<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cFrederick Forsyth, who has died at the age of 86, wrote meticulously researched thrillers which sold in their millions.\u201d<\/p>\n

California Review of Books: <\/strong>After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart by Megan Marshall<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 David Starkey reviews After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart<\/em><\/a> by award-winning American biographer of women writers, Megan Marshall.<\/p>\n

Nation Cymru: <\/strong>Book review: Curious Travellers, Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760- 1820 by Mary-Ann Constantine<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Curious Travellers<\/em><\/a> by Mary-Ann Constantine is the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820), reviewed by Julie Brominicks.<\/p>\n

Publishers Weekly: <\/strong>Peter Orner\u2019s Healthy Obsession<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cIn his latest novel [The Gossip Columnist\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/a>], the author uses a real-life unsolved murder from the 1960s to explore the nature of storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sydney Review of Books: <\/strong>Woman Alone<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cDrawing on her experiences bushwalking through Western Sydney and her reading of Marlen Haushofer\u2019s The Wall<\/em><\/a>, Jumaana Abdu reflects on \u2018abject freedom\u2019, a concept that points to the paradoxical and precarious nature of women\u2019s freedom in solitude.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ancillary Review of Books: <\/strong>An Elegy for Retail Capitalism: Review of Sarah Maria Griffin\u2019s Eat the Ones You Love<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Irish writer, Sarah Maria Griffin\u2019s fantasy\/horror novel, Eat the Ones You Love<\/em><\/a>, \u201cis an ambivalent elegy for late-twentieth-century retail capitalism. An inventive mashup of dark romance, Little Shop of Horrors<\/em>, and the disillusioned millennial art novel [which] takes place in [a] working-class suburb of Dublin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Markaz Review: <\/strong>The Evin Prison Bakers\u2019 Club \u2014 Review<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Iranian author and activist Sepideh Gholian\u2019s The Evin Prison Bakers\u2019 Club:<\/em> Surviving Iran\u2019s Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes <\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u201cis no ordinary prison memoir [but] a literary act of bearing witness, reminding us that freedom is not always a place \u2014 it is a state of mind, carried even through the thickest walls of confinement\u201d, says Hannah Kaviani.<\/p>\n

History Today: <\/strong>The Hidden Diary of Samuel Pepys<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cWhen Samuel Pepys\u2019 diary was first published 200 years ago it was an instant hit, but rumours soon spread about what had been cut and why\u201d, says Kate Loveman, author of The Strange History of Samuel Pepys\u2019s Diary<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Irish Times: <\/strong>Aunts fictional and real matter more to us than they may know<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Hazel Gaynor, author of Before Dorothy<\/em><\/a>, writes \u201cin praise of our aunts and women who don\u2019t hold the title, but who have always been there for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Point of Departure: <\/strong>6 Bookstores in Lisbon Worth Visiting<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cAnother installment of [what EJ Johnson describes as her] most self-indulgent series\u201d.<\/p>\n

Beshara Magazine: <\/strong>K. Ramesh: Haiku Poet And Ecological Activist in South India<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cThe India poet K. Ramesh has gained an international reputation with three highly-regarded books of haikus and tankas\u201d. Here \u201cRobert Hirschfield presents the work of a dedicated lover of nature\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Observer: <\/strong>In the footsteps of Mrs Dalloway: taking to the street to celebrate Virginia Woolf<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cDublin marks Joyce\u2019s Ulysses<\/em> with Bloomsday every summer. So, on the centenary of the publication of Woolf\u2019s treasured book, isn\u2019t it time for an annual Dallowayday in London?\u201d asks Vanessa Thorpe.<\/p>\n

Dirt: Slow life Narratives for the overworked.<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cKyle Tam on the popularity of Japanese isekai stories as an escape from your crappy job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Literary Review of Canada: <\/strong>His Cohort<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Enos Montour\u2019s Brown Tom\u2019s Schooldays<\/em><\/a> tells the story of a young boy\u2019s life at residential school. \u201cA survivor\u2019s account is finally published\u201d, says David Venn.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Caught by the River: The Postal Paths<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cConnecting the landscape, its people and its stories, Alan Cleaver\u2019s The Postal Paths<\/em><\/a> offers an engrossing, thoroughly researched and timely insight into a [part of British] history that is just about still within living memory, writes Kevin Boniface.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times (via DNYUZ): <\/strong>A Thrilling Lesbian Vampire Novel You\u2019ll Want to Sink Your Teeth Into<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cIn V.E. Schwab\u2019s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil<\/em><\/a>, three women turned into vampires are thrown into a centuries-long drama of love, power and hunger\u201d, writes Everdeen Mason.<\/p>\n

The Kyiv Independent: <\/strong>Controversial Russian literature prize sparks debate on separating culture from war crimes<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cLaunched to promote Russian literature on the global stage during Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the new Dar (\u2018Gift\u2019) literary prize is already mired in controversy \u2014 and not just for its troubling timing\u201d, reports Kate Tsurkan.<\/p>\n

BBC Wales: <\/strong>National Library of Wales missing 2,200 items<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cAbout 2,200 items are missing at the National Library of Wales \u2013 an increase of 84% in two years\u201d, reports Alun Jones.<\/p>\n

Plough: <\/strong>The Explosive Imagination of Dickens<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cPeter Conrad\u2019s Dickens the Enchanter<\/em><\/a> paints a portrait of the great storyteller in all his bizarre glory\u201d, says Gina Dalfonzo.<\/p>\n

Volumes.: Notes on a Reading Life: Taking Books Seriously<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Matthew Morgan discusses \u201cthe reader\u2019s responsibility, the writer\u2019s paradox, and a master of metaphor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Yale Review: <\/strong>The Talented Ms. Highsmith<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 \u201cI worked for the novelist in her final months. I thought she wanted to kill me\u201d, says Elena Gosalvez Blanco.<\/p>\n

The Arts Desk: <\/strong>Samuel Arbesman: The Magic of Code review \u2013 the spark ages<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Jon Turney describes The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World\u2014and Shapes Our Future<\/em><\/a> as a \u201cwide-eyed take on our digital world [that] can\u2019t quite dispel the dangers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Northern Virginia Magazine: Find a New Dog-Themed Bookstore in Downtown Fredericksburg<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 \u201cTales & Tails combines [readers] love of books, coffee, and dogs in one place\u201d, finds Michele Kettner.<\/p>\n

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If there is something you would particularly like to see on\u00a0Winding Up the Week<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or if you have any suggestions, questions or comments for\u00a0Book Jotter<\/strong>\u00a0in general, please drop me a line<\/a> or comment below. I would be delighted to hear from you.<\/p>\n

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I wish you a week bountiful in books and rich in reading.<\/p>\n

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NB<\/strong>\u00a0In this feature, \u2018winding up\u2019 refers to the act of concluding something and should not be confused with the British expression: \u2018wind-up\u2019 \u2013 an age-old pastime of \u2018winding-up\u2019 friends and family by teasing or playing pranks on them. If you would like to know more about this expression, there is an excellent description on\u00a0Urban Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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