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Dr Richard Hussey
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"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence"
Senior Data Scientist
Books, boardgames, RPGs, evolutionary computation, graph DB
Autistic; Gay

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Book 71 is "Lukenbooth" by Jenni Fagan.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #jennifagan #luckenbooth
The cover of the book. A seven storey tenament house stand alone in the middle; it has a large keyhole overlaid over the floors, and an eye peers through. Red leaves fall all around the cover, and there is an organic pattern behind the image.
December 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Book 70 of 2025 is "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers, first in the Wayfarers series.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #beckychambers #wayfarers #TheLongWaytoaSmallAngryPlanet
The cover of the book. The silhouette of a woman stands on a slight hilltop, with a vast starscape above and behind her filling the rest of the image.
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Book 69 is "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #EmilyBrontë #wutheringheights
The cover of the book. The roof of a house can just be seen peaking out of the rolling hills and moorland. A gaunt tree sticks up in front of it.
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Book 68 is "My Brother's Keeper" by Tim Powers.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #timpowers #mybrotherskeeper
The cover of the book. An animal skull with two sabre-like teeth is in the middle of the image, with four cameo-like images of people in the corners. There are bones and daggers in decoration, and curling stone-like leaves.
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Book 67 is "An Instruction in Shadow" by Benedict Jacka, book 2 of the Inheritance of Magic series.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #benedictjacka #aninheritanceofmagic #aninstructioninshadow
The cover of the book. A five pointed star shape made of red raven's wings radiating out from a central point. Over the top is laid a golden downward facing pentagon and pentagram, as well as a five pointed star. There are lines and alchemical symbols decorating the shapes, and leaves in the background.
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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3rd December. A bookmark that looks like a book spine titled "Folk & Faerie Tales: Volume IV".

#advent2025 #adventcalendar
As described in the post.
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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2nd December. A deck of cards to help you choose what to read next from your To Read pile.

#advent2025 #adventcalendar
A deck of cards next to their box. The top card says "Read a book with gold on the cover". The box says "TBR prompts".
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Book 66 is "The Society of Unknowable Objects" by Gareth Brown.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #garethbrown #thesocietyofunknowableobjects
The cover of the book. A leather bag that clasps closed along the top is open and glowing golden from within. A number of objects are floating above it in a swirl of golden glitter including: a chess rock, a locket, an old fashioned hand mirror, and an hourglass.
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Book 65 is "Fool Moon" by Jim Butcher, the second Dresden Files book.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #JimButcher #DresdenFiles #foolmoon
The cover of the book. A man in a fedora and long coat, holding wooden staff. A large full moon behind him and a blurred out city skyline.
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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1st December. A wooden tag of a ribbon saying "Reader", to hang up.

#advent2025 #adventcalendar
The tag as described on top of a light blue bag, with a 1 in the corner.
December 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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I've got two advent "calendars" this year. One of which I'll be posting pictures of and the other I won't...

The latest in the #journal29 series, and a gift calendar of greatest themed book related items.

#adventcalendar #advent2025
A green book. The title is "Journal 29 Advent Calendar" with a subheading "Interactive Book Game". A notecard on top of tissue paper. It reads "The Fairytale & Fantasy Advent Calendar 2025".
December 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Book 64 is "Ascension" by Nicholas Binge.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #nicholasbinge #ascension
A large sheer rock of an island juts up out of the water with a light sky splattered with stars overheard. The title runs vertically down the middle of the image.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Trying book 63 again as I picked up the wrong book from the shelf and accidentally started number 4 instead ..

Book 63 is "Memories of Ice", a Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #stevenerikson #malazanbookofthefallen #memoriesofice
The cover of the book. A vaguely Nordic/Celtic looking warrior work a helmet, axe, and shield is walking past some rocks. Behind everything fire burns and smoke billows.
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Book 62 is "Evocation" by S.T. Gibson, book 1 of the Summoner's Circle series.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #stgibson #thesummonerscircle #evocation
The cover of the book. A blond man is hanging upside down from a rope tied around his ankle; his other leg is folded at the knee 90 degrees on the typical "Hanged Man" tarot card image. His hands are behind his back, and a red clawed arm reaches over his waist to clutch at his heart - which is ringed with magic. He is wearing a fancy waistcoat and jacket, and a cloak that falls down to the bottom of the image behind his head. In the background are numerous candles. The whole image is bordered with silver filigree and the alchemical symbols for the four elements.
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Look what turned up from @tomgauld.bsky.social - "Physics for Cats".

#bookstodon #tomgauld #physicsforcats
The cover of the book. A number of cartoon black cats on an impossible shape suspended in space.
October 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Book 61 is "Jade Legacy" by Fonda Lee, the third Green Bone Saga book.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #fondalee #greenbonesaga #jadelegacy
The cover of the book. Carvings of dragons at the top of the image above horizontal lightning through the title, and a forested river landscape below. Everything is shaded blue.
October 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Book 60 of 2025 is "The Lights of Prague" by Nicole Jarvis.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #nicolejarvis #thelightsofprague
The cover of the book. A pencil drawing of the city of Prague in Victorian times. Roofs of red, and tiny sticks of people. The cathedral rises in the centre, and bats fly up from it into the sky above the title.
September 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Book 59 is "The Mercy of Gods" by James S.A. Corey, first of The Captive's War.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #jamessacorey #thecaptiveswar #themercyofgods
The cover of the book. The title and author is superimposed over a blue tinted shot of science fiction skyscrapers that invoke the feeling of being abandoned and ruined, as well as vastly tall and curving inwards like rock spires around a canyon. The sky is yellow, and there are smaller buildings clustered at the bottom.
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Book 58 is "Jade War" by Fonda Lee, the second in the Green Bone Saga.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #fondalee #greenbonesaga #jadewar
The cover of the book. The title is in a red font with a bolt of red lightning travelling across the page sideways between the words Jade and War. Behind the lightning can just be made out a city of skyscrapers all in red.
September 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Book 57 is "The Black Hunger" by Nicholas Pullen.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #nicholaspullen #theblackhunger
The cover of the book. A table is piled with grapes, fruit, a glass of wine (?), a silver bowl with plums, and a skull. The bowl also contains a cross splattered with blood, and blood drips off of one of the grape leaves onto swarth of parchment across the middle of the image that contains the title in old fashioned gothic type.
September 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Book 56 is "Jade City" by Fonda Lee, first in the Green Bone Saga.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #fondalee #greenbonesaga #jadecity
The cover of the book. The title, in green, with a bolt of green lightning crossing sideways between the two words.
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Book 55 is "Alien Clay" but Adrian Tchaikovsky.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #AdrianTchaikovsky #alienclay
The cover of the book. A very blue image of blue sky, blue rocks, blue plants, blue ground had several tall and thin yellow plants in the front and some scattered yellow and orange plants further back.
August 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Book 54 is "The Devils" by Joe Abercrombie.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #joeabercrombie #thedevils
The cover of the book. A skull sits in the middle of the image, with golden flames coming off to the left and right. Above it golden smoke drifts from two candles stuck either side of the forehead like horns. Its lower jaw is missing, and a crown (the correct way up) floats in its place.
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Book 53 is "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem.

(I do not appear to be able to work out how to do the correct "L with a dash through it" that is in his name. My apologies to Mr Lem.)

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #StanislawLem #solaris
The cover of the book. The word Solaris in the middle in a white ring, and the variously spaced dashed and dotted red rings. Reminiscent of a star and planetary orbits.
August 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Book 52 of 2025 is "Dangerous Dimensions", part of the British Library's Tales of the Weird series and edited by Henry Bartholomew.

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #henrybartholomew #britishlibrary #talesoftheweird #dangerousdimensions
The cover of the book. The image is all in pink on a black background. A face above a hand which has all the wrong number of fingers, because there seem to be multiple versions of it overlapping but out of phase with each other. Shadow hands behind the head reach down towards their shoulder.
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM