EXCERPT: COMPANION WANTED FOR ELDERLY WOMAN – NORTH NORFOLK Temporary position. Live-in. BOX:765034 Job specifications: Live-in companion wanted for an elderly woman. You will have your own room with a private bathroom in a substantial home on a large country estate in North Norfolk. The position is temporary – seven days in the last week of August during a family wedding party. Your duties will be light. No persona care is involved. The woman requires, in essence, a friendly person to be her companion while the family are otherwise engaged with wedding preparations. You must be efficient, quick-witted and happy to join the family for their very special occasion. If the applicant is successful, there is the potential for a permanent position in the woman’s London home. . .
Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to ‘find himself’ ā alone ā and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving divorce papers in his wake.
Now Gina needs a new role in life, not to mention somewhere to live, so she applies for the position of Companion to elderly Dorothy Reed. At eighty-nine, āDotā needs someone to help her around the house ā or at least, her family seems to think so. Her companionās first role would be to accompany Dot for a week-long extravagant wedding party.
But when Georgina arrives at the large Norfolk estate where the wedding will take place, she quickly discovers Dot has an ulterior motive for hiring her. While the other guests are busy sipping champagne and playing croquet, Dot needs Georgina to help her solve a mystery ā about a missing painting, which she believes is hidden somewhere in the house.
Because, after all, who would suspect two old ladies of getting up to mischief?
MY THOUGHTS: I loved these two main characters! Eighty-nine-year-old Dot Reed and seventy-one-year-old Gina Knight just seem to hit it off. Dot really didn’t want a companion until she met Gina, who has a skill that Dot needs to fulfil her quest. Gina just wants out of the marital home which is in the process of being sold.
Gina doesn’t have a lot of self-confidence, shaken by a departing husband who describes her as ‘beige and unexciting.’ Dorothy tends to be impulsive and a holder of grudges. At first glance these two have nothing in common, but in truth both are quick-witted and suspicious. Juliet, Dot’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter makes the third person in the search for stolen goods in the host’s home.
Old Girls Behaving Badly is humorous romp (without being at all silly!) under cover of the upcoming nuptials in a large and stately manor house with staircases, cellars and hidden rooms. Dot and Gina made me think of an aged Nancy Drew!
This read is a lot of fun. It deals with divorce in the elderly, grief, finding your feet again and finding new friends in unexpected places. Every time I think about Old Girls Behaving Badly, I smile. The way Kate Galley has ended this book makes me believe there may be a second book on the horizon. I sincerely hope so.
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THE AUTHOR: Kate Galley lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, children and Meg, their Patterdale Terrier. Much of Kate’s inspiration co0mes from the varied lives of her client as a mobile hairdresser.
DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Boldwood Books via NetGalley for providing a digital ARC of Old Girls Behaving Badly by Kate Galley for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
Yay!!!! Only three new ARCs arrived in my inbox this week! Excuse me while I do a little dance . . .
My first new title is a publisher’s widget – The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. I see this isn’t getting great reviews, but I have enjoyed everything else I have read by her, so we’ll see . . . It certainly sounds enticing!
Midsummer, the Dorset coast
In the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a beautiful new countryside retreat.
But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. And the candles have barely been lit for a solstice supper when the body is found.
It all began with a secret, fifteen years ago. Now the past has crashed the party. And itāll end in murder atā¦
THE MIDNIGHT FEAST
I have read so many amazing reviews about Goyhood by new-to-me author Rueven Fenton that I just couldn’t resist requesting it.
But his mother’s untimely death brings a shocking revelation: Mayer and his ne’er-do-well twin brother David aren’t, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayer’s only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim?
So begins the Belkins’ Rumspringa through America’s Deep South with Mom’s ashes in tow, plus two tagalongs: an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.
And to round out this weeks books is the latest in the Josie ‘nosey’ Parker cosy mystery series by Fiona Leitch – The Cornish Campsite Murder.
Jodie āNoseyā Parker is back in 2024 with a brand new Cornish mystery to unravelā¦
As they prepare for a weekend of camping and being elbow deep in shortcrust pastry, Jodie hadnāt bargained on witnessing a fight between members of the lead band.
But when the body of one of the band members is found dead not far from the campsite, Jodie finds it hard to believe it was an accident. Especially when the other members had so much to gainā¦
I still have 22 pending requests, 2 past publication date but which are not archived until some time later in May.
I have 515 books on my NetGalley shelf, one less than last week. Hey, I’ll take it. It’s a gain, or a loss, however you want to look at it! At least it makes my 72% feedback ratio a little more secure . . .
Goodreads group, All About Books is having another readathon starting at 12.01 am Friday 26 April and finishing at 11.59 p.m. Sunday 28 April for which I have signed up.
I have completed 8/9 books and all four books by Australian authors for my Aussie Readers April challenge. I will read the 9th and remaining book after I have finished my current read. I will easily complete this challenge before the end of the month.
I have just signed up for the May Aussie Reader’s challenge. The featured author is Sophie Green.
I have read 7/14 books for the Autumn Aussie Readers challenge, so I am right on target!
I have completed my first task of 24 for the World Book Day Challenge which I need to complete before 23 April 2025.
When I was at the library recently, our librarian introduced me to Beanstack an online reading library-based reading challenge but I didn’t get around to signing up for it until yesterday. There is a timer where you can log your reading minutes, Book bingo on which I have this morning completed my first square, and a place to publish your reviews. There are several other features that I haven’t yet had time to explore but will do as soon as possible.
My annual goals I am just going to update at the end of each month, and as it is the last Wednesday of the month, here goes –
I have read 87 of my goal of 225 books for my 2024 Goodreads Reading challenge- 18 books ahead of schedule; and 64 of my goal of 150 NetGalley titles. I can always increase my goals later in the year.
I have read 13 of my goal of 20 Backlist titles for 2024. These titles must have been on my shelf for longer than 12 months to qualify.
I have read 22 of my 24 book goal for my 2024 library love challenge, so I may need to reset that goal too.
I selected the My Precious (I had my earbuds surgically implanted) level of 30+ audiobooks for 2024. I have so far listened to 19/30.
Another few days and we’ll be 1/3 of the way through the year!
Dustin and Luke fly back from Perth Thursday night – that week has gone by fast! Luke loved the reptile park so much that they made a return visit yesterday and Luke got to feed a snake! He was so excited. He keeps messaging me telling me what he’s doing. He’ll be spending time with his Australian grandad for the last two days of his visit which will be nice for both of them.
I have a busy morning ahead. I need to tidy up my office desk as I have mislaid two vital bits of paper. My friend Annette is staying tonight after we get back from seeing Dragon in concert so I need to make up a bed for her. Pete’s dinner is simmering away in the crockpot, but I need to get some food in for the weekend, do laundry, and sort out what I am wearing tonight. The day is going to be beautiful, but not that warm. It will be hot inside the event centre but cold outside. What to wear???? Boots, definitely. I hate to have cold feet!
EXCERPT: ‘Your train was cancelled yesterday, so you went for a walk and found this weird charity shop, saw a strange clock, got locked in and then got out again?’ Marguerite’s podgy hand flew to her mouth, almost batting the tantric crystals clean across the scuffed floor tiles of Mrs Hall’s Pantry. ‘Oh goodness gracious me,’ she said, and gave a neighing peal of laughter. ‘You must think I’m a complete numpty!’ Pat smiled faintly, making a considerable effort not to look as if she agreed. ‘I went back,’ said Marguerite. ‘I wasn’t working this morning, so I went back to the charity shop. I wanted to go back and see how much this clock I saw cost. At that point I hadn’t twigged that it wasn’t real.’ She paused dramatically. ‘And?’ ‘It wasn’t there!’ ‘The clock?’ ‘No, the whole shop. When I went back this morning, the whole shop had just vanished!’
ABOUT ‘A CLOCK STOPPED DEAD’: Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are giving up their coffee morning for a brand-new mystery. The perfect cosy crime story for fans of The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
But when their good friend Marguerite claims to have uncovered a mysterious charity shop that has since vanished, they simply canāt resist investigating.
Before long, our trio of unlikely sleuths find themselves embroiled in a race against the clock to get to the bottom of this mystery ā but who has a secret to hide and how far will they go to keep it concealed?
MY THOUGHTS: I quite enjoyed catching up with this trio of ex-school teachers, but I didn’t love it as much as I wanted to. I think, because there is simply too much dialogue. Far too much. Understandable perhaps with the author being a playwright first and foremost. So I shall temper that comment by saying ‘far too much dialogue for a novel.’ I find it very hard to get a sense of place or character with so much dialogue and so little of anything else.
I do love the characters, Pat, Liz and Thelma. There’s a little conflict between them in this installment that leaves Pat wondering if, after twenty-five years, give or take, they were all growing apart now that the common bond of teaching that had drawn them together was gone.
There are adjustments to be made all round. Two of the women have their adult children return home unexpectedly, Pat has to come to terms with her aging, and Thelma has something to learn about her husband.
There are some beautifully humorous moments such as when Pat’s husband Rod is trying to plan a holiday for them, and the feud between Polly, Thelma’s workmate at a (different) charity shop, and the manager of said shop. The window display scene is priceless.
But the mystery . . . the mystery is messy and hard to follow. There are psuedo-supernatural elements that only cloud the issues, too many extra characters and simply too much going on with all the different side-stories. The author seems to have thrown everything but the kitchen sink into this – but wait, I may be wrong, he may well have thrown the kitchen sink in as well – I’m sure there was a mention of dishes being done . . .
To be quite honest, I was more interested in what was going on in the lives of these three women than I was in the mystery.
I do love the lead ins to each chapter, a la Winnie-the-Pooh, e.g. CHAPTER FIVE Two friends don’t fall out and a plan is hatched
My least favorite book of the series so far. (sorry!š¬) And I should perhaps mention that although there is a complete mystery in each of these books, I don’t really think that this would read easily as a stand-alone. There’s a lot of back history to these characters.
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THE AUTHOR: J.M. Hall is an author, playwright and deputy head of a primary school. His plays have been produced in theatres across the UK as well as for radio.
DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Avon Books UK via NetGalley for providing a digital ARC of A Clock Stopped Dead by J.M. Hall for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.
Ten! Yes, ten new titles arrived to review this week. What was I thinking? But so many of my favorite authors have put books up on NetGalley this week, that I just couldn’t resist!
So, what are these titles?
If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay. I have enjoyed every book I have read by this author; he sure knows how to write a tense and absorbing read!
The crushing blow to the head. Hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriendās piercing screamā¦
For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. With no trace of Ali after she is abducted, a cloud of suspicion hangs over him, though he is never charged. Trying to put his past behind him, Ryan changes his name and enters law school.
Itās on a summer trip to Italy that he gets the call: his missing car has finally been found, submerged in a lake in his hometown. But inside the car are two dead men. The only trace of Ali is a cryptic note, the envelope in her handwriting stating If something happens to me…
Reeling from the news, Ryan sees the man who has haunted his nightmares since the night Ali was taken. But how could that be possible, so far from home? His search for answers leads him to England and France, but the truth may lie in the shape of two very different people back in the USA.
Dog Days by Wendy Corsi Straub is the next instalment of the Lily Dale mysteries. I have come to feel a great affection for these characters.
After attending a family wedding in Chicago, young widow Bella Jordan is returning to the guesthouse she runs in Lily Dale – the quirky upstate New York lakeside village famous for its spiritual mediums – when she catches a glimpse of the impossible at the airport: her late husband Sam.
A former science teacher, Bella is grounded in facts and logic. She doesn’t believe in ghosts. But even when she’s back home with the competing distractions of her quirky guests, small son Max, resident pet cats and a very unexpected litter of puppies, Bella can’t find a good explanation for what she’s seen.
The situation gets even stranger when her psychic friend Odelia tells her that she made contact with Sam’s spirit and he shared a significant name: Kevin . . . Bacon!
Bella doesn’t know what to think, but when she glimpses Sam again and things start to vanish around her, she knows she has to get to the bottom of the strange happenings – even if that means letting go for good . . .
Fiona Walker is an author whose books I can never wait to get my hands on! Her latest is The Art of Murder.
Welcome to the beautiful English village of Inkbury. Tucked deep in the North Wessex Downs, its only claim to fame is the picturesque riverside that once appeared in a Richard Curtis movie. That is, until the murderā¦
Former stand-up comic Juno Mulligan has been suffering a serious sense-of-humour failure. Not only has she lost the love of her life, but sheās having to relocate to the (admittedly idyllic) village of Inkbury to watch out for her elderly mother, who sheās genuinely worried might be marrying a wife-killer.
But before they have a chance, the local art dealer washes up distinctly dead in the villageās famous river. His lover is in the frame, but Juno and Phoebe suspect that there is a deeper secretā¦ One that relates to Phoebeās own past and Junoās present.
Will the unofficial Village Detective Agency solve the mystery before the killer strikes again? In sleepy Inkbury, as they soon discover, living oneās best midlife can be murder.
Beth Moran is an author who always gives me all the feels with her heartwarming novels. It Had To Be You is one I just had to read.
Growing up, sisters Libby and Nicky never knew who theyād find at breakfast.
Their parents fostered children of all ages, and although the girls loved playing their part in providing a safe haven, it meant that life was rarely peaceful.
Now as a single mother of two, Libbyās life is still anything but peaceful. In her work as an antenatal coach, as well as for the charity she and Nicky run for teenage mothers, Libby uses all the skills she learnt growing up surrounded by children. Her days are full, caring for her family, the mothers-to-be and the latest strays she has welcomed into her home. But in the dark of the lonely nights, Libby worries sheās falling apart at the seams.
One troubled boy and a reckless decision she made thirteen years ago still haunts her.
Two hearts that were broken, still not mended.
The time has come for Libby to look out for herself. As her family, friends and her community have known forever, Libby is one of a kind, and if she can just learn to love herself, she may be able to welcome back the love she let slip through her fingers.
I have heard a lot about, but whom I have never read until now. The Blood Promise is the first installment in a new Scottish crime series.
A deadly gift
Imogen Clark wakes up on her 16th birthday to find her parents dead at the breakfast table, along with a message from their killer.
A twist of fate
Detectives Jazzy Solanki and Annie McQueen join the investigation, but the more they discover, the more Jazzy suspects that the killing is a twisted message for her. Jazzy shares the same birthday as Imogen, and believes that this is more than a coincidence.
A race to catch a killer
When Jazzy discovers the connection between the killer and the stalker who has been following her for years, she is forced to confront the dark past she was desperate to keep hidden. She must stop at nothing to solve the case, before she becomes the next victimā¦
The first of two Australian titles this week is Down the Track by Stella Quinn, also a new-to-me author.
Dr Joanne Tan is an expert in a lot of things. Love isn’t one of them.
Being thirty-something, broke, divorced and in a cold war with her ten-year-old son is a lot, but Jo’s handling it. Just. At least she is until her job at the Natural History Museum is put in jeopardy. An invitation to dig up dinosaur bones on a remote Queensland sheep station arrives at just the right time.
It’s not her first trip to Yindi Creek, but it’s not as though anyone will remember her from fifteen years ago … And by anyone, of course, she means the pilot she had that fling with. The fling that taught her she’s far safer sticking to science …
Gavin ‘Hux’ Huxtable, helicopter pilot and reluctant sheep-shearer, has turned his broken heart into a secret (and successful) writing career. But running into Jo again, all these years down the track, stirs up a lot more than outback country dust.
A missing person, a fossilised legbone and a nosy country cop force Jo and Hux together and the sparks that start flying don’t go unnoticed by the locals …
Digging up the past isn’t easy. Digging up the truth can be even harder.
Susan Loves Books is to blame for this title! I saw it on her post and had to have it! The Irish Key by Daisy O’Shea is the first in The Emerald Isles series.
āTake the key, my pet. I canāt ever go back. The last letter I had from Ireland was clear about that. But one day you may need a safe haven, and itās the one thing I can give you. Ireland is in your blood, it will keep you safe.ā
When Grace arrives tired, tearful and rain-soaked in Roone Bay, the little Irish village where her grandmother Caitlin grew up, she is overwhelmed with longing for Caitlinās safe, warm arms. The crumbling wreck of Caitlinās once-beautiful childhood cottage ā whose key Grace was given on her wedding day as a secret refuge if she ever needed it ā is not the fresh start sheād hoped for. But with her young daughter Olivia to look after and a painful past to hide from, Grace has to stay strong.
Plucking up the courage to ask for help from her kind new neighbours ā including quietly rugged carpenter Sean Murphy ā Grace gets to work making the house habitable. Soon the view of the deep emerald sea has her captivated, Olivia is blossoming, and Sean makes her laugh in a way sheād forgotten she couldā¦
As she learns more about her family history, with Sean by her side, Graceās curiosity unearths only further mystery. What drove Caitlin away from Ireland, never to return? But when Grace uncovers a long-lost letter to Caitlin that reveals the heartbreaking truth, she is suddenly threatened by her own devastating secrets.
Grace may have finally found a home for her little family. But when faced with everything she ran from,Ā will the past tear her apart once more? Or will Grace find the strength to stand up for her daughter, her love for Sean, and her new life in Ireland?
David Mark is an author I read religiously. When the Bough Breaks is his latest offering and also the start of a new series.
Traffic cop Sal Delaney’s past is catching up with her . . .
North of England. Cumbria. Salome Delaney didn’t have a great start in life. But her abusive childhood came to a tragic conclusion with the killing of her tyrant mother, Trina, by a jealous ex-boyfriend. At least, that’s what the police say. Sal has never believed kind Wulf, who tried to protect her from her mother’s dark side, could have committed such a crime, but the evidence was irrefutable . . . and who else could have done it?
Now an adult, with a good job as a Collison Investigation Officer, Sal’s done her best to put the past behind her. But one snowy morning she’s called to an accident scene, and she recognizes the body – Barry Ford, the man her mother left Wulf for, all those years ago.
It soon becomes clear this wasn’t just an accident – it was murder. And Wulf, now out of prison, lives very close by . . .
The question of who really killed her mother has haunted Sal her whole life, but as she launches a complex investigation, which gets darker by the hour, she starts to wonder if she really wants to know the answer after all.
Two of this weeks new ARCs are audiobooks – the first is The Intruders, written by Louise Jensen and narrated by Helen Keeley.
They were told to leave. They should have listened.
The perfect opportunityā¦
A manor house available rent-free to house-sitters is an offer too good to miss for Cass and James, who have been saving for a deposit on their own home for so long.
Although it had been abandoned for almost thirty years, after a home invasion left almost all the inhabitants dead, it is an amazing chance for them to build their future.
But is it worth the price?
Shortly after moving in things take a sinister turn. Objects disappear and turn up in odd places, the clock always stops at the same time, the house is strangely oppressive and sometimes it feels like Cass and James are not alone.
Newington House may have bad energy, and a dark reputation. But surely thereās no reason for history to repeat itself, is there?
The second audiobook is also my second Australian title this week – Red River Road is written by Anna Downes, a new-to-me author, and narrated by Maddy Withington.
Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, her free-spirited younger sister, Phoebe, vanished without a trace on the remote, achingly beautiful coastal highway in Western Australia. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up on her.
Using Phoebeās social media accounts as a map, Katy retraces her sisterās steps, searching for any clues the police may have missed. Was Phoebe being followed? Who had she met along the way, and how dangerous were they?
And then Katyās path collides with that of Beth, who is on the run from her own dark past. Katy realizes that Beth might be her bestāand onlyāchance of finding the truth, and the two women form an uneasy alliance to find out what really happened to Phoebe in this wild, beautiful, and perilous place.
I think I need to ban myself from NetGalley for a while! What do you think?
Enjoy the remainder of your week, and happy reading!šš
Happy Sunday! I think I will be having a little nap after I have finished this post. I am exhausted after Luke’s birthday party yesterday, even though I slept well last night. I Had forgotten how active five seven to nine-year-olds could be. They had sack races, played tag and hide-n-seek (which Luke when he was much younger called hide-and-sneak). The most sedate thing they did all day was play pass the parcel, and then that was more throw than pass. The birthday cake I made was beautiful, nice and moist, but the adults ate more of it than the children did. I also saw one or two tucking into the fairy bread! It was nice to meet the parents of Luke’s friends. His best friend Ryan has just moved five minutes down the road so I am sure they will now be seeing a lot more of each other out of school than when Ryan’s family was living in the city.
So, what am I currently reading? I am starting The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up by Laura Pearson. I have loved all the books I have read by this author and can’t wait to get stuck into this one.
When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested.
Heās the reason sheās in here. She knows it. She remembers what he did. Clearly as anything.
But there are things Shelley has forgotten too, including parts of her childhood. And as those start to come back to her, so do other memories. Ones with the power to change everything.
But can she trust these new memories, or what anyone around her is telling her? And who is the mysterious hospital volunteer who brings her food and keeps making her smile? Is it possible to find your future when you’re confused about your past?
I started The Last Best Chance by Brooke Dunnell this morning. I enjoyed The Glass House by this author last year, but have still to find my feet with this. To be fair, I am only twenty pages in . . .
When Rachel, a forty-something single woman, finds herself running out of options on her path to motherhood, she seeks treatment at a fertility clinic in Central Europe. Telling half-truths to her family and the clinic’ s medical team, Rachel questions how far she will go to become a mother, even though she struggles to articulate her desire to become one. Meanwhile, expat Jess loves her new life with Viktor despite their struggle to make ends meet and her confusion about her life’ s purpose. Viktor and his friends live their lives passionately while Jess just seems to be living. With the city preparing for a green-energy expo, Jess sees the opportunity to ignite a career dream, while Rachel fears that it might jeopardise her dream of having a child. Will a chance encounter between the two women give each what she desires?
I am listening to one of my 2018 back titles, What Happened to Us by Faith Hogan, and loving it.
Sometimes the end is only the beginning…
After ten years together, Dubliner Carrie Nolan is devastated when she’s dumped by Kevin Mulvey without even a backwards glance. But on reflection, she had been sacrificing her own long-term happiness by pandering to his excessive ego ā well, not anymore!
While Kevin is ‘living the dream’ with his beautiful new Brazilian girlfriend, Carrie seeks solace from a circle of mismatched strangers who need her as much as she needs them.
Then suddenly a catastrophic sequence of events leaves Carrie unsure if there’s anyone she can trust.
How far do you need to fall before you realise it’s never too late to start again?
And the coming week? I only have one read for review scheduled this week – what a relief! I can hopefully catch up on a couple of titles I have skipped past. We are 14 (I think) weeks into the year, and I have 14 titles that I have bypassed so far this year. This time last year I was completely up to date with all my scheduled reads for review.
My next read up will be The Clock Stopped Dead by J.M. Hall, a cosy mystery featuring three retired schoolteachers turned amateur sleuths. I enjoyed the first tow books in the series and have no reason to think that this will be any different.
Retired schoolteachers and amateur sleuths Liz, Pat and Thelma are giving up their coffee morning for a brand-new mystery.
But when their good friend tells them about an unsettling experience she had in a sinister-feeling charity shop, they simply canāt resist investigatingā¦
Because the entire shop has vanished into thin air.
Before long, our trio of unlikely sleuths find themselves embroiled in a race against the clock to get to the bottom of this mystery ā but who has a secret to hide and how far will they go to keep it concealed?
Now, I’m not quite sure how a whole charity shop can vanish into thin air, but I am looking forward to finding out.
Enjoy whatever is left of your weekend, and keep on reading! šš
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