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SELLING “COUNTERCULTURAL” FASCISM via Westernized versions of yoga didn’t start as a TikTok trend: witty, opinionated, well researched book traces the origins of today’s granola Fascism to the early twentieth-century right. SOLID B

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fascist-yoga-stewart-home/1146243474?ean=9780745351124

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🏮 A game by lanternlight. A creature no one expected...

Katie joins new friends for a story game in the heart of Elderglen… but when her imagination sparks real magic, the village may never be the same.

✨ My Cozy Fantasy Book 'Advent of Dragons' continues with Chapter 5—where laughter, warmth, and wonder meet just a touch of chaos.

👉Read it for free: https://fatherroderick.substack.com/p/advent-of-dragons-chapter-5

oh dear usually i do my book in big blocs of books i'm currently like 10 books into zombie apocalypse then its john brown the martyr and badass then cosmic horror i guess? 2026 is gonna be a good year methinks!

I've made a new book challenge on StoryGraph.

This year it's about optimism and skill building: solar punk!

Join me if you'd like to do a bit more doing and a little less doom scrolling next year.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/c49dcb13-085b-4950-b189-a5f0fe3ff37c

<THIRD CANDLE>

as
we
were
trying
to hold

we
were
alive
somehow

pitiful
memory of self
we held
as the winter
rained onto the
golden dirt
and everything's

blooming

and the electric candle
of the recollection is dimming

as the distant scream
touches you

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The Void - Dark sci-fi space opera.

S04E06 - Relic

A derelict Yeung Corporation battleship is discovered with faint lifesigns evident. Why is a hostile state’s ship floating aimlessly in Republic space sporting obvious battle damage?

And Mira is on the hunt for Gideon, following the evidence trail Grace supplies, whilst Gideon ponders the pursuit of his ambition when he has discovered love for the first time.

https://www.ratchman.com/episodes/the-void-the-long-cold-dark-s04e06-relic

Image by Mariam Kalandarishvili. Yiu Quon relaxes in his garden of reflection in front of a pagoda. The garden is a vibrant mix of greens and pinks with a stream bubbling through the middle. Hard to image this exists at the apex of a starscraper. Quon is getting older and, as he likes to view it, wiser. His face expresses his calm demeanour and quiet dignity, but his eyes reflect a more analytical, perhaps even coldly rational aspect of himself.

💙📚 Announcing TCL's New Release Challenge for 2026! with Sign Up Link Party. Join the year-long challenge devised by Brandee & Linda of (un)Conventional Bookworms, and add your sign-up links and/or goals to my new link party here!

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/12/08/announcing-tcls-new-release-challenge-for-2026-2026newreleasechallenge-with-sign-up-link-party/

_Knave of Diamonds_ by Laurie R King is the nineteenth in the Mary Russell series. I love Russell and this isn't a bad book really, I enjoyed reading it, but some of it's starting to feel a lot like filler.

https://nocto.com/books/knave-of-diamonds/

A hardback copy of the Knave of Diamonds book.

Review - The Wages of Sin, by Kaite Welsh: this wasn't quite for me due to the many references to sexual assault, but it's an interesting historical fiction/mystery based around the first women who studied medicine in Victorian Britain. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it").

Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2025/12/07/review-the-wages-of-sin/

well since goodreads thinks i've read 241 books due rto a glitch and the fix is too onerous i'm just gonna roll with it and bump my goal to 250 books! i can definitely do 9 more by january 1st!!!!

There's no danger of my 2 entries for this week not qualifying: one from my favourite GAP(ublisher), Dean Street Press and one from my favourite GAQ, Margery Allingham

https://crossexaminingcrime.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/

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cover of "There May Be Danger" by Ianthe Jerrold, showing a woman with a frightened expression on her face as a shadowy hand reaches for her
cover of ebook edition of "Sweet Danger" by Margery Allingham showing a golden tiara with three stars attached and blood spatters beside it