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March Books & Read-a-Thon Note

This month's edition is late on account of the fact that I can barely make myself look at what I read long enough to copy/paste it let alone reproduce it. I find it Depressing.

Before I get to that, though, a semi-promised announcement since I'm posting anyway. For those of you interested in the 24-hour Read-a-Thon, please remember it is held this Saturday and starts at noon (12pm) GMT. Information on how to calculate your start time can be found here.

Thank you and my apologies for a potential overload of bolding and being late with everything. We now return to our scheduled discussion of what books we read in March. ^-^

Statistics-wise as I remember it, I picked up about 8 books last month. Of those 8, 4 were assigned books and 4 were books I picked up because I wanted to read them. Of those latter 4, I failed to finish 2.

I am so very, very, very tired of books I'm only reading because I'm told to. Even if the books turn out to be interesting (I liked half of my assigned reading), I'm still not reading them because I want to.

I'm trying to mix up my obligatory and leisure reading a little more this month. I still have a good chunk of assigned reading list to go through (before deciding which to reread so I can write essays about them), but I do need my leisure books.

Sample books I remember titles of include:
Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper (reread, leisure)
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (obligatory, will never get on with Conrad)
Kipps by H.G. Wells (obligatory, surprisingly good)
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (obligatory, really liked it)

Anyway, enough of my woes. How has your reading been this month? I hope it was better than mine! What were the highlights of the month? Did you read all the books you hoped to get to or have you been reading whatever struck your fancy? Let us know!

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I'm not reading much lately. This seems weird when I'm basically at home all day, but I don't have a commute or a lunch break to read on, and I'm working so hard at the hobby formerly known as my day job that I don't get through more than a few pages at bedtime.

I did enjoy Jasper Fforde's One of our Thursdays is Missing, which just shimmers with meta humour; also Elizabeth Bear's By the Mountain Bound, which is beautiful and sad and does make somewhat more sense out of All the Windwracked Stars, to which it is a prequel.

It makes perfect sense to me! (But then I do most of my reading on commutes and part of the reason March was so appalling is that I've completely unlearnt how to read in a house.)

I'm glad you've enjoyed the books that you've read, though! ^-^

I did quite well with my reading in March (not so much with the writing), although I thought I'd read more non-fiction ...

Non-fiction:
The English Marriage: Tales of Love, Money and Adultery ~ Maureen Waller (interesting and entertaining)
The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters ~ Norma Clarke (interesting but poorly organised)
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed ~ Judith Flanders (loved it)
London: The Executioner's City ~ David Brandon (reasonable)
The Reverend Guppy's Aquarium: Encounters with Heroes of the English Language, from the Earl of Sandwich to Joseph P. Frisbie ~ Philip Dodd (a lot of fun)

Fiction:
Died in the Wool, Final Curtain, Swing, Brother, Swing, Opening Night, Spinsters in Jeopardy, Scales of Justice, Off with His Head, Singing in the Shrouds and False Scent ~ Ngaio Marsh
The Documents in the Case ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The Case of the Gilded Fly (Gervase Fen, #1) and Holy Disorders (Gervase Fen, #2) ~ Edmund Crispin
Ordeal by Innocence, The Listerdale Mystery, The Hound of Death and The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ~ Agatha Christie
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1) and A Mind To Murder (Adam Dalgliesh, #2) ~ P.D. James
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1) and Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher, #2) ~ Kerry Greenwood
A Duty to the Dead (Bess Crawford, #1) ~ Charles Todd
The Religious Body ~ Catherine Aird
A Certain Slant of Light ~ Laura Whitcomb

Marsh, Sayers and Christie continue to be entertaining (and I found that Poirot is more tolerable in small doses.)

I found the books by P.D. James, Charles Todd and Catherine Aird to be promising. I liked the first Gervase Fen book but the second was a mess. And if I hadn't had the second Phryne Fisher book right there, I would have never read another one. But the heroine is less irritatingly perfect in the second book.

The one non-detective novel, A Certain Slant of Light, was ... disappointing. There were some really interesting ideas but I felt the authour relied on cliche quite a lot. I also found the idea of adult ghosts using teenage bodies for sex rather squicky.

Having said that, I am now reading a books on the Batavia. Real life Lord of the Flies. Whole lot of squick happening. (I'm not sure I really wanted to know what keelhauling entailed ...)

Ooooh! Writing! (I am so far behind on that, it is not funny.) Good luck with it! ^-^

Why is Poirot untolerable in larger doses? (I'm not much of an Agatha Christie reader. I used to watch the tv-series adaptation every week, though.)

That does sound quite squicky put like that...

I hope the book on the Batavia will turn into something less squicky than it has been so far! And educational if it isn't anything else...

Heh, Poirot. I haven't seen the TV series yet but I know some people find him less annoying onscreen than on the page. I read a couple of the early novels and he was just so smugly superior and his mannerisms irritated me. Either I found it less annoying in short stories or the character mellows in later books. We'll see!

Yeah, I had high hopes for the ghost story but ... a lot of potentially interesting issues were sidelined.

As for the Batavia book, it turned out to be really good. Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash. A book about the murders of 120 men, women and children by shipwrecked mutineers could have been horribly sensationalised but the author handled it really well. He didn't gloss over the violence but he didn't dwell on it either. And he didn't sugarcoat the brutality of the times. Where necessary, he provided explanations of keelhauling, torture methods, execution methods ... but only where necessary. And there was a lot of other information as well! Anabaptists, apothecaries, shipbuilding, the VOC, life at sea ...

Good luck with your writing too!

I wish I could venture an opinion on the difference, but I can't. ^-^; I do like TV!Poirot, though. I always found him endearing. (Though that may have been the accent.)

It sounds quite interesting, really! I'm just a wuss. ^-^ (I like being a wuss, don't get me wrong. I mean, it ensures that I get some decent sleep at night and all, but still.)

Thank you!

I can completely respect that. *solemn nod* I can deal with a lot in the written word but visually? I look away really fast. Nightmares are not needed!

I got to skip about half my movie course's movies on account of having to look away too often. ^-^; (Most awesome tutor ever.) I'm reeeeaaaally easily squicked out. I'm slowly learning to deal better with the written word squick, though, but still. There's venturing outside my comfort zone and venturing outside my comfort zone, after all.

I've read, uh, one book in March I think?

EM Forster is one of my favorite writers. He takes a sharp pin to the puffed-up nonsense of the late Victorian/early Edwardian upper class. RWAV has that in spades.

That certainly puts my amount into perspective...

I really, really enjoyed RwaV. It's, uhm, probably the only book so far that I'm genuinely grateful the course pushed on me. I've had to read A Passage to India for another course earlier and hadn't gotten around to reading more Forster, so I'm quite happy that this course pushed me into picking this up earlier than I would otherwise have done. Howards End is next on my reading list. ^-^ Would you say that's better or worse than RwaV? (I know, I know, it's all subjective, but I'm curious. ^-^)

I can't remember ^^; I read it in high school for my AP English term papers. I re-read RWAV a couple years ago and got a LOT more out of it than I did when I was 17. If you can get "The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories" (http://www.manybooks.net/titles/forstereother09clestial_omnibus.html), the title story is one of my all time favorites. Also "The Machine Stops."

I took the title of my blogspot blog from Passage to India (Obligated to Exaggerate).

^-^

I actually got it off Project Gutenberg at a friend's recommendation a while back. ^-^ I just haven't gotten around to it. I suspect it'll take some time before I do, too, because I don't want it accidentally associated with being obligatory reading. If I read it now, that's exactly what'd happen because of the Forster books already on the course.

Yeah, no, March was no better than February for me; there was a lot of school stress and minimal reading.

I'm still reading Wuthering Heights "for myself", and will continue do so for most of April, heh.

For school, I read two German plays (in translation) about the Holocaust. Peter Weiss's The Investigation was ... well, I can hardly call it "good" because it was really horrible and brutal and I felt emotionally mangled for days after reading it, but I did enjoy it and found it a very worthwhile read. It's staged as the Frankfurt war trials and uses witnesses' statements in a loose sort of way, and it has no punctuation and is in verse and it's extremely powerful in its almost clinical way of saying "look, this shit happened and the people who did it are still among us: do you agree that they need to be judged and punished?" Rolf Hochhuth's The Representative on the other hand is the most boring piece of writing I've ever read. It's about how the Pope handled (or didn't handle) the Holocaust and I'm sure it's very provocative for someone who, you know, believes that the Pope is the most important man on Earth and all that, but I don't, so the issue was kind of not interesting at all to me. Plus it's incredibly long and mostly just based on rhetorics.

Also for school I read Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I didn't love it and I didn't hate it, and I really don't have much to say about it.

There was a sprinkling of Baudelaire poetry (from Les Fleurs du Mal) which was enjoyable and led to many an amusing discussion. (My flatmate concluded that B. was practically the original/ultimate hipster.)

I also wrote a literature essay on Brecht's Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (The Caucasian Chalk Circle) for my German class, and spent a lot of time reading books and articles on it, so that accounts for a week and a half of doing very little other reading.

Lastly, I worked with a self-help CBT type book: When Perfect isn't Good Enough by Antony and Swinson. I'm not very good at working with books like that so I can't say if it's actually good, but I do think it is.

For April, I'm going to finish Madame Bovary and Der Prozess and hopefully Wuthering Heights and then I'll be free to move onto items of my own choosing for the next several months! YAY! Except I also have to revise for my final exams in May, but yeah. 37 literary works for uni this academic year: I deserve to pick something light-hearted just-for-me now!

My flatmate concluded that B. was practically the original/ultimate hipster.

Haha, I love Baudelaire, but it's so true.

To be sure I'm reading it all right, you're only three books away from reading something purely for your own enjoyment's sake? YAY! You completely deserve to pick something just-for-you, yes! (Several somethings, I'd say, if they can be balanced with the revisions.)

Sounds like your March was filled with a lot of extremely heavy reading. I do hope April lets up a little there and gives you a good stretch of just-for-you reading. *sends good studying and reading thoughts*

I read a grand total of two books (and started a few others) in March, because I have been writing like a maniac. Skimmed a lot of history books. That's the least I've read in a month in 2+ years, so I'm kind of embarrassed, but also thrilled to be writing again, so.

I read

Sword Song, by Rosemary Sutcliff (ya historical, Viking era)
Not my favorite Sutcliff by a long shot.

Frontier Wolf, by Rosemary Sutcliff (ya historical, Roman Britain)
OMFG, BOOK OF MY HEART. Now tied with The Shining Company for my favorite Sutcliff, and I wish there were a whole genre about fuckup Roman soldiers on the frontiers because I would READ THEM ALL.

I think I'd trade writing loads for reading loads any day of the week... I'm glad to hear you're writing again and so happy with it!

OMFG, BOOK OF MY HEART. Now tied with The Shining Company for my favorite Sutcliff, and I wish there were a whole genre about fuckup Roman soldiers on the frontiers because I would READ THEM ALL.

That... has got to be the best (or at least one of the best) one line book summaries ever.

(Speaking of Sutcliff, would you say Sword at Sunset is a good place to start or am I better off tracking down other books first? And now I'm paranoid I've already asked you this before and can't remember what you said... *sigh* Apologies if this is the case. My memory really is a sieve.)

I'm hoping to reach a better balance between the reading and writing at some point, haha.

I am embarrassed to say I have not yet read Sword at Sunset. It is one of her few adult novels, and hence somewhat different in style than most of her work (as well as longer); I gather it is also one of her more depressing novels, but some of her YA novels are terribly depressing, too. My personal favorites of the ones I've read so far (which is not actually that many) are The Shining Company (Welsh c. 600, based on Y Gododdin, almost everyone dies but the ending is fairly optimistic) and Frontier Wolf (Romain Britain AD 343, almost everyone dies but the ending is fairly optimistic). FW is all boys, TSC has a fairly central female character (as Sutcliff goes) in the first part.

A lot of people start with Eagle of the Ninth, which is not actually my favorite, and read through the loosely linked Dolphin Ring books--TSC covers some of the same emotional territory, but I feel in far less squicky ways. I'm really in a minority of being bugged by how EOT9 handles its central relationship, though.

She has a few books with actually central female characters, but I haven't tracked any of them down yet (and at least one--the Boudicca book, Song for a Dark Queen, is guaranteed grinding misery). On the whole she wrote stories about boys honorably soldiering or doctoring (third option: farming, but only when you're done with one of the first two) and bonding with each other a lot.

Honestly, I think you can start just about anywhere--I'd pick based on the period that most interests you. I'd probably start with one of her YA novels before SAS, but I dunno.

shanaqui might have a Sutcliff starting point recommendation, too, and I have no doubt that it would be completely different from mine (she likes EOT9 and Sword Song a lot more, for one).

To be completely fair, SAS won't be my very first Sutcliff. I've read her retelling of Tristan and Isolde, but it's so close to the source material I've read that I'm not happy calling it my first original story by Sutcliff.

Mmm... I think not starting with SAS sounds like a better idea, then, really. If it's different, I'm not sure I really want to take the risk of hating it and never wanting to read her works again. (I doubt that'll happen, but it's still a possibility.)

Will have to do more research from the sound of it! ^-^ I like the idea of picking based on period-interests. That sounds like a great plan! ^-^

(And different opinions are good! You learn so much from them. ^-^)

My impression is that some of Sutcliff's Arthurian stuff is more legend-retelling than historical fiction, whereas SAS is firmly historical fiction (and tied in clearly with all her other historical fiction--most if not all of her historical novels are in the same fictional version of history, with references to places/characters/things from earlier books). So yeah, T&I is probably different.

Sorry you didn't have such a great reading month :( I hope it picks up for you.

I did something different this month. Instead of reading as I usually do, on a when-it-strikes-me basis, I read two books every day. Results were predictable - some days I got through my two books almost before I even got out of bed and could have very happily read more, some days I was ploughing through them right until bedtime because I kept finding things I'd rather do. It was interesting, though, just to see the difference in some days - sometimes quite close together - when I'd quite happily have continued on to read twelve books in a day, and on another I'd be so bored of turning pages.

Quite a few cosy mysteries; some stand-alone books and a few non-fiction.

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Thanks! It's been a bit of a catch-22 of my own making, to be honest, but hopefully it'll pick up as the course draws to a close.

Oh! That sounds like a really interesting experiment! Do you think you'll be repeating it in April or do you prefer reading as you normally do?

Here's hoping!

Not this month - too late for that, I'm already on twenty-six books! - but I will probably repeat it later on in the year. Maybe every three or four months? I definitely prefer my usual method, but it would be interesting, I think, to try it out a couple more times and see the results.

Your reading speed always astounds me. ^-^ I hope you'll find the times you decide to experiment with it enjoyable!

I read quite a bit last month, but as usual I can't be bothered to list that many books -- at least thirty, maybe forty. The high points were the Welsh fiction in English books -- I started reading this stuff for a class, and then eagerly branched out into as much of it as I could.

I was about to post about the readathon again this evening! I'm looking forward to it, though my 'pile' has changed already...

This is what it's looking like now:

-Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honour.
-Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories.
-Eoin Colfer, the Artemis Fowl books.
-Michael Ende, The Neverending Story.
-Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse.
-Joanne Harris, Coastliners.
-Joanne Harris, Gentleman and Players.
-William Shakespeare, King Lear.
-Thomas E. Sniegoski, A Kiss Before The Apocalypse.

Subject to change at whim. And that was only the stuff on my Kindle. I haven't gone to make a physical pile of stuff I'm interested in at my parents' house, yet.

*snrk* I have to admit I've loved watching all the Welsh fiction in English books appearing on your GR and reading the comments on them. ^-^ I'm going to have to try and track at least some of them down since they sound fascinating. ^-^

Feel free to make a separate post for it! I almost forgot myself. >> Changing lists is fun! (Also, King Lear! Yay! I still have no clear idea why I have such a soft spot for that play. Which indirectly reminds me, have you seen Slings and Arrows?)

Which ones are you particularly interested in? *curious*

I might post something for the day, so people can check in and interact here, maybe?

My list has got longer... I'll type it up soon.

I haven't seen that, no.

I am so bad at names and titles... *goes look them up* Glyn Jones' The Dragon Has Two Tongues and Lewis Jones' Cwmardy & We Live are most prominent. Country Dance too, actually. But my memory is so bad I may be missing some.

It could be a lot of fun if you did. ^-^

Longer list! Yay!

Might be worth looking into. The very, very basic premise is that it's about a company of (Shakespearean) actors and their struggles in a world increasingly less interested in watching plays. They have bits of King Lear in the third season, which is why I'm reminded. (And huh. It just struck me that I've only ever seen Paul Gross act characters who see ghosts.)

The Dragon Has Two Tongues fascinated me so much because Glyn Jones rather liked Caradoc Evans, 'the most hated man in Wales', and offered a perspective on him I'd never seen before. And I was also intrigued by what he had to say about Dylan Thomas: I knew little about Dylan's life, but Glyn's account of it was quite sad. I also liked little things, like his explanation of the Welsh tendency to use first names not last -- that being, if you do that, you can't tell who the heck is meant, because we're all Evans and Jones and Walters and Thomas, because our surnames were given us by the English from first names. Also because we tend to be quite informal and classness, in Glyn Jones' view -- not, I think, entirely true, but...

Cwmardy & We Live are great. I thought they'd be boring, but they really weren't. I totally scared away an American friend, though, by saying they were communist -- but the miners were, I'm afraid, many of them: that's just a fact. Socialist, communist, supporters of the Labour party... It doesn't make their stories less worth hearing. Grr.

Margiad Evans' Country Dance is nice -- my favourite of hers, I think. The Wooden Doctor was too much about anxiety and specifically health anxiety, and also uncomfortably close to autobiography! And Turf or Stone was interesting but not as engaging as the other two...

Yep!

It's posted on

wilderthan, now.

Oooh, sounds interesting.

I have a feeling I might have to track down some more Welsh writers to read before digging into the non-fiction purely because it'll give me a reference I currently don't have. (But it soooouuuunds so good...)

No, it doesn't. It might make them all the more important to be heard, even.

*nods*

I saw! I'm just hopeless at useful comments. And book-flitty. >> *trying to find one she can settle and concentrate on* Maybe I need some short story anthologies...

I think it is. ^-^ But then if I didn't I wouldn't have mentioned it, so... It's not a very widely-known show, though, I don't think.

I hadn't read anything by some of the authors Glyn Jones discussed, but I think it does help -- for example, it helps to know what Caradoc Evans wrote, because then you'll understand why he was the most hated man in Wales. Glyn writes about Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones and, if I remember rightly, Gwyn Thomas, of the prose writers, and then Dylan Thomas and two other Welsh poets. I'd read a little something by most of them.

Yes, I think so. I mean, there's a reason the Welsh miners tended toward communism and socialism -- because capitalism treated them so atrociously poorly. And a lot of the Welsh died, during all this. Miners, their badly treated women, shopkeepers who could no longer earn a living who committed suicide... Lewis Jones himself died of exhaustion, after touring the UK (and maybe the US, too, I don't trust my memory on that part) speaking every night to crowds of hundreds of people... He cared so passionately about it that he literally worked himself to death for the cause. I wish people who don't agree with his politics wouldn't dismiss his passion and his good intentions.

If you like, when I've finished my Welsh Fiction in English course and don't need the books for a while, I could send you a box of some to borrow -- they can be expensive to buy, which is why I say borrow, I'm afraid -- and maybe photocopies of some of the short stories. I'm thinking of one by B.L. Coombes, which is about a trial following a cave-in in which his best friend died -- it's based on the true story of Coombes' own life, and has a whole moral dilemma about telling the truth vs. making sure reparation is paid for his friend's death. It's very interesting -- and heartbreaking, but much of Welsh fiction is. (Of course, I'm also totally in support of you owning copies for yourself, since the publishers are very small and struggling in the current economy. But the first part, to me, is to get people reading this stuff at all!)

If I were to give you a list of things to start with, to get an idea of the breadth of Welsh lit and the history behind the stories, I'd suggest Margiad Evans' Country Dance, Amy Dillwyn's The Rebecca Rioter, Caradoc Evans' My People, Lewis Jones' Cwmardy, Jack Jones' Black Parade, a selection of short stories by Rhys Davies, and a selection of Dylan Thomas' poetry -- some of which I could lend you. The stuff I'm going to be writing about is Welsh national identity as represented by the Nonconformist chapels, the language, and the industry, and the above stories give a good overview of all those things!

I'm worried I'll have that problem, which is why there are two short story collections in the bunch -- if I can't settle, I'll just use those to indulge the restless part of my brain and bribe it to behave!

Edited (Correcting myself. Also, oh god, I'm sorry, it's an essay.) 2011-04-08 21:58 (UTC)

*smiles* And that would be why I'm wanting to get at least some fiction and general understanding of the situation under my belt before I tackle the essays. Otherwise I'd get virtually nothing out of it. 'course with my attention span that'd take forever, so I might have to adjust that idea some. >< (And it took me five minutes to realise that I wanted the word 'adjust', so I should probably go to bed...)

*nods* And do they disagree with the actual politics or just with the potentially wrong idea they have of them?

You're a sweetheart, hun. It might be ages and ages before you got them back if you did, so I wouldn't be comfortable or happy taking you up on your offer. I'd like to say 'yes, please!', but it'd really be unfair on you. (Besides, buying them new is a good cause.)

I hope you won't have that problem! But I'm glad you've something to help if it turns out you do. ^-^ (And I like essays like this! I wish I could write them.)

Yeah: Glyn Jones does contextualise a fair bit, but it helps to understand going in that Caradoc Evans... well, his books were burnt in Cardiff when they were first published. He was hated. But even just me telling you that wouldn't really make you understand. (Although I think his work is somewhat misunderstood, I dislike it quite strongly too, even a century later.)

I think they just think communism=bad. I don't think they really have any concept of the dangers of the mines and how badly the workers were treated. Just reading Lewis Jones was enough to make me want to spit, in a totally different way to Caradoc Evans! It's like the protests here now, in many ways, which is another reason I think it's very relevant.

If you can get hold of them, buying them new is a great cause. Originally, one of the publishers was publicising how to support the company directly, and I care enough about it that if I can still do that, I will. Honno, Seren, and the Library of Wales are the best ones to support.

I'm going to use some of them to get me started -- something quick and easy. Except that I might have to start with finishing up Fledgling (Octavia Butler).

You're making me mighty curious as to why he was/is so hated now...

*makes note of these*

I noticed that you did indeed start by finishing that one. ^-^

His representation of the Welsh as stupid, dirty, perverted, incestuous...

Yay!

I can see why they burned his books, yes. Well, some of why, anyhow. (Do I really want to read some of his works then?)

You probably don't want to! But, though I don't like the fact, he's pretty much the father of Welsh writing in English. Mind, I think Glyn Jones has excerpts of his stories in The Dragon Has Two Tongues, so you could get by without the full Caradoc Evans experience. I could photocopy you a story or two of his, too, if I photocopy you B.L. Coombes' story and such?

I would vastly prefer that, I think. <3 But only if it's no trouble to you, please!

And this also reminds me, now that I'm actually awake, I have a (slightly) older book on learning Welsh if you or any of your flatmates are interested in it?

I have a spare module guide with a whole bunch of stories in, actually. I can just send you that. *grin*

Probably!

Oooooh! Shiny! Plus also potentially coming with a wealth of other information.

I shall send it along with Reynard then! (Somewere... near the end of the month. *pokes it*)

I think it has a couple of essays and stuff as well. And definitely a reading list.

Okay! Thank you. ♥

I heart reading lists! (Except the ones that look scary. Those are, well, scary.)

Quite welcome. ^-^

didn't read too much in march, but i liked;

up till now by william shatner (his autobiography)
blind man's bluff: the untold story of american submarine espionage by sherry sontag and christopher drew
stargate SG-1: a matter of honor by sally malcolm

That submarine one sounds... compelling. (I have, like, zero interest in either submarines or espionage but it sounds so fascinating!)

I have, like, zero interest in either submarines or espionage but it sounds so fascinating!

same here, but i found it to be very interesting.

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