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• Sunday Post November 2025 Week 1
• Monday Bookmark: Yuumei
• The First Ten Books Randomly Chosen From My Shelves
• My Year in Nonfiction
• WWW Wednesday 2025: 5 November
• Original story: Restless Revenant
• Friday Fragments the Fifth

• Book Review: Bond Keeper by Nicola Appaji
• Top Ten Tuesday
• WWW Wednesday
• Original Poem
• Friday Fragments
• Book Review: Soulless by Michael Geczi
• Sunday Post

Just as I was still recovering from Covid, I caught a nasty cold. With that, on top of attending to my usual responsibilities (volunteering, study etc) meant that I really didn’t have much energy left for blogging. This means I haven’t posted as much, I haven’t been reading a lot of other people’s blog posts, and I’ve commented on even less. But, I’m back now, and should be back to my normal posting schedule. I might even finally post that review of Bond Keeper lol. That’s about all I have to report since I haven’t been doing much more than rest offline either.

Oh, I do have two things to tell you, though. Firstly, since I didn’t post last weekend, today’s Sunday post will cover the past fortnight. Secondly, there’ll be a minor tweak to my challenge updates. From now on, only monthly challenges will be updated weekly. Annual challenges will be updated in the first Sunday Post of each month. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to update weekly when the progress will be so small.

Started

100 Things to Do Before You Die: (plus a Few to Do Afterwards) by Liz Else & Valerie Jamieson et al.

Dracul by Dacre Stoker & J.D. Barker

Four Ingredients by Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham

How to Be Both by Ali Smith with John Banks (Narrator)

Lawless Game of Lies by Maeven Vox [Review Copy]

Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1) by Kendare Blake

Finished

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

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

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna with Samara MacLaren (Narrator)

DNF’d

Current Reads

Freebies

Review copy:

Lawless Game of Lies by Maeven Vox

Rescued from recycling:

The Guilt-Free Cookbook 1998: A Collection of Guilt-Free Recipes produced in 1998 at the Adelaide Nutrition Care clinic by Cassandra Hood

Carbohydrate Serve Counter by Alison Martin & Cassandra Hood

Protein Serve Counter by Alison Martin & Cassandra Hood

Easy Slow Cooker Cookbook: Simple Ingredients and Easy Preparation for Hassle-Free Cooking by Barbara C. Jones

Favourite Meat Recipes (Family Circle Step-by-Step)

Gifted

Library

Purchased

Selected Stories by Rudyard Kipling

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr Yorick by Laurence Sterne

This week I learned that Orangutans are scarily smart; that they learn from humans; that each group has their own culture which is lost when that group disappears; that males have been known to rape human women; and that there is even at least one example of a ‘femme fatale’ luring a male Orangutan into murdering her rival. In fact, they’re practically just hairy humans. Does that make the destruction of a clan of Orangutans genocide?

Words I had to look up this week:

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. Hopefully, I’ll have more to report next week.

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© Adele Walker November 2025