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Jan. 5th, 2026 11:38 am
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Everyone misses the book memes, I see. From various:

Grab the nearest book.
Turn to page 126
The 6th full sentence is your life in 2026.


When I first saw this I was in the bathroom with no books ... but with my phone. Here is the sixth sentence from the 126th page of the ebook edition of The Horse and His Boy (which is at the top of the list because I've finished it) as displayed on my particular phone with those particular Libby settings:
This seemed to last for hours.

That is ... not what I wanted, as divination goes...

2025 Reading

Jan. 1st, 2026 05:39 pm
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So I saw a few people talking about their favourite books of 2025, and I decided to see if I could actually come up with a (short) list since I generally don’t even try to name favourites.

This excludes rereads and fanfiction, which would about double the list. * indicates books published within the last two years, ~ indicates the last of a trilogy where I also recommend the rest. Listed in order of reading.

  • ~Blood and Ember by Isabel Cooper
  • The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity and Christopher Baldwin (comic)
  • Dionysos by Richard Seaford (nonfiction)
  • ~*Viscounts & Villainy by Allie Therin
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  • The Adventures of Harlequin by Francis Bickley
  • *Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy (comments here)

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Привет and welcome to our new Russian friends from LiveJournal! We are happy to offer you a new home. We will not require identification for you to post or comment. We also do not cooperate with Russian government requests for any information about your account unless they go through a United States court first. (And it hasn't happened in 16 years!)

Importing your journal from ЖЖ may be slow. There are a lot of you, with many posts and comments, and we have to limit how fast we download your information from ЖЖ so they don't block us. Please be patient! We have been watching and fixing errors, and we will go back to doing that after the holiday is over.

I am very sorry that we can't translate the site into Russian or offer support in Russian. We are a much, much smaller company than LiveJournal is, and my high school Russian classes were a very long time ago :) But at least we aren't owned by Sberbank!

С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

EDIT: Большое спасибо всем за помощь друг другу в комментариях! Я ценю каждого, кто предоставляет нашим новым соседям информацию, понятную им без необходимости искать её в Google. :) И спасибо вам за терпение к моему русскому переводу с помощью Google Translate! Прошло уже много-много лет со школьных времен!

Thank you also to everyone who's been giving our new neighbors a warm welcome. I love you all ❤️

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