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So, turns out the nasty cold I’ve been enduring is actually covid. It’s not as bad as my previous bouts with the disease, but still had me feeling pretty miserable. It explains why I’m still feeling so tired, though.

I searched for serial killer board games earlier in the week. I was looking for games in which the player must survive a serial killer, or maybe the player is a detective whose aim is to catch the killer. I did not expect a video about a banned board game in which the board is a map of the USA, the players are serial killers, and the aim is to rack up the body count without getting caught and, if you are caught, it best be in a state without the death penalty. If you get caught in a state with the death penalty, you lose the game. What the actual fuck?

Other than all that, it’s been a pretty boring week. I did have a zoom interview on Thursday for a work from home transcriber job. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

Started

Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father and His Sister: Life and Death in Juarez by Sandra Rodríguez Nieto

Soulless: Sometimes the Darkness Overcomes the Light (The Revenge, Unhinged Series #2) by Michael Geczi [Review Copy]

The Music Makers: A novel about the death and re-birth of freedom by James D. Snyder [Review Copy]

Finished

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland #1) by Lewis Carroll

Winter Moon by Dean Koontz

DNF’d

Current Reads

Freebies

Review copy:

The Music Makers: A novel about the death and re-birth of freedom by James D. Snyder

Gifted

Library

Dracul (Stoker’s Dracula #1) by Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker

Always By Your Side (Blossom Heath #1) by Julie Haworth

Purchased

The StoryGraph Reading Goals

52 Book Club 2025 Challenge

52 Book Club 2025 Mini-Challenges

2025 Read Good Challenge

2025 Buzzword Challenge

2025 Buzzword Cover Challenge

Monthly Challenges

This week I learned that kremlinologists exist. According to Wikipedia, Kremlinology is the study and analysis of the politics and policies of the Soviet Union while Sovietology is the study of politics and policies of both the Soviet Union and former Communist states more generally. These two terms were synonymous until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Words I had to look up this week:

anachronism

1. the representation of an event, person, or thing in a historical context in which it could not have occurred or existed
2. a person or thing that belongs or seems to belong to another time

(source: collinsdictionary.com)

pince-nez

1. Pince-nez are old-fashioned glasses that consist of two lenses that fit tightly onto the top of your nose and do not have parts that rest on your ears.

(source: collinsdictionary.com)

exogenous

1. having an external origin
2. biology
   • developing or originating outside an organism or part of an organism
   • of or relating to external factors, such as light, that influence an organism
3. psychiatry
   • (of a mental illness) caused by external factors

The context in which I read it is more in line with the first definition.

(source: collinsdictionary.com)

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Pronunciations I had to look up this week:

So, that’s my week. Not a lot going on lot this week. I’ve simply been too unwell to do much of anything. Watch out for tomorrow’s post, though, for the inaugural post of my brand new blog meme: The Monday Bookmark.

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© Adele Walker November 2025