Been too long

Sorry it has been so long since I kept this up!   Cheri's book was Crazy Rich Asians.   Will meet in September or November of 2018

Book Club Book List

May 2008 - Present

 

1. Audition by Barbara Walters – Denise in May 2008  
2. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum – Laurel
3. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston – Malin
4. The Awakening by Kate Chopin – Loader
5. Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler - Kenyon
6. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer – Cherie
7. The Stranger Besides Me by Ann Rule - Kimbril
8. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson – Rossi
9. Gods in Alabama by Joshily Jackson – Dana
10. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski – Denise
11. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen – Malin
12. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison – Loader
13. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows – Cherie
14. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – Kathleen
15. Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – Kenyon
16. The Shack by William P. Young – Laurel
17. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster -
18. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden – Rossi
19. Still Alice by Lisa Genova – Laurel
20. One Dead in the Attic by Chris Rose – Cherie
21. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay – Paula
22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – Malin
23. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick – Denise
24. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 
25. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – Kimbril
26. The Help by Kathryn Stockett – Dana
27. The 19^th Wife by David Ebershoff -
28. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -
29. Aberrations by Penelope Przekop – Paula
30. The Room by Emma Donoghue – Kenyon
31. The Kitchen by Robert Alexander -
32. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman -
33. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro -
34. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain – Dana
35. A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron – Cherie
36. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard – Kimbril
37. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston – Denise
38. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – Paula
39. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom – Kenyon
40. The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann – Rossi
41. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand – Malin
42. 50 Shades of Grey by E. L. James – Kimbril
43. The Life Boat by Charlotte Rogan – Dana
44. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh – Cherie
45. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls - Loader
46. Gold by Chris Cleave – Denise
47. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan – Paula
48. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – Kenyon
49. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Rossi
50. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer – Malin
51. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett – Paula
52. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – Kimbril
53. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - Dana
54. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty – Denise
55. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins -
56. Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar – Malin
     

MISSING/OUT OF ORDER BELOW

57. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
58. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
59. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
60. Defending Jacob by William Landay
61. The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama
62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  
63. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – Denise    
64. Summer House by Nancy Thayer – Cherie
65. Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson -
66. League of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada – Paula
67. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer –
68. The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin -
69. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – Kimbril  
70. The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin – Malin
71. Astronauts Wives Club by Lily Koppel – Paula
72. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross – Dana
73. When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey – Cherie
74. The Vegetarian by Han Kang – Denise  - February 2017
75. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – Loader – April 2017
76. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Malin - June 2017
77. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena –  
78. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - Dana - 2018
79. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan – Cherie – August 2018
80.  The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee – Paula - September 2018

           

 

Thursday March 3rd 7pm at Besito

BOOK CLUB 2016

Thursday March 3rd 7pm at Besito (Westshore Mall)

The Swans of Fifth Avenue – by Melanie Benjamin

http://www.amazon.com/The-Swans-Fifth-Avenue-Novel/dp/0345528697

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.

Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends—the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband, and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman—a woman desperately longing for true love and connection.

Enter Truman Capote. This diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality explodes onto the scene, setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan’s elite, along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe’s powerful circle. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls “True Heart,” Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. But once a storyteller, always a storyteller—even when the stories aren’t his to tell.

Truman’s fame is at its peak when such notable celebrities as Frank and Mia Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Rose Kennedy converge on his glittering Black and White Ball. But all too soon, he’ll ignite a literary scandal whose repercussions echo through the years. The Swans of Fifth Avenue will seduce and startle readers as it opens the door onto one of America’s most sumptuous eras.

Friday April 22nd 7pm OR Saturday April 23rd 10am breakfast - J.C.

June - Paula

August - Kimbril

October - Dana

December - Denise or Cherie? 

April 24th Book Club Dana

Sorry I have been a slacker about posting. 

Just to recap... 

January 2015 book club hosted by Jennifer Malin was Deep Down Dark.  Here is the fabulous photo from ROUX!

We have rescheduled April Book Club from the 10th to the 24th.  
Dana will keep you posted.  

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins (Author)
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2015: Intersecting, overlapping, not-quite-what-they-seem lives. Jealousies and betrayals and wounded hearts. A haunting unease that clutches and won’t let go. All this and more helps propel Paula Hawkins’s addictive debut into a new stratum of the psychological thriller genre. At times, I couldn’t help but think: Hitchcockian. From the opening line, the reader knows what they’re in for: “She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks…” But Hawkins teases out the mystery with a veteran’s finesse. The “girl on the train” is Rachel, who commutes into London and back each day, rolling past the backyard of a happy-looking couple she names Jess and Jason. Then one day Rachel sees “Jess” kissing another man. The day after that, Jess goes missing. The story is told from three character’s not-to-be-trusted perspectives: Rachel, who mourns the loss of her former life with the help of canned gin and tonics; Megan (aka Jess); and Anna, Rachel’s ex-husband’s wife, who happens to be Jess/Megan’s neighbor. Rachel’s voyeuristic yearning for the seemingly idyllic life of Jess and Jason lures her closer and closer to the investigation into Jess/Megan’s disappearance, and closer to a deeper understanding of who she really is. And who she isn’t. This is a book to be devoured. -Neal Thompson

Final 2014 dates

Amy Gall - August (possibly Thursday August 7 or Friday August 8)
Jennifer Malin - September

Cherie - October/November

June The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - Canceled

The Husband's Secret

by 

Liane Moriarty

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .

Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.

Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.

May Book Club Canceled

April 2014 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - Dana - canceled

canceled meeting

The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide.

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.

Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will end

Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

ure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.

Thursday March 20th 2014 7pm - Kimbril Book Club

"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak


The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time

Ladies - please check your calendars and tell me what you think about these dates.  I just counted every four weeks and came up with these so if this is your month and these dates are bad please let me know and we will push schedule back.  Decide whether  you can do the Thursday or Friday of your month and let me know so I can update schedule.  Thanks Ladies! 

Kimbril - March - Thursday March 20th

Dana - April - Thursday April 17 or Friday the 18

Cherie - May - Thursday May 15 or Friday May 16

Denise - June - Thursday June 12 or Friday June 13

Jennifer Malin - July Thursday July 10 or Friday July 11

Amy Gall - August - Thursday August 7 or Friday August 8

HAD AN AWESOME TIME AT MAGGIANO'S!!!

Kicking Off 2014!

Fun times at book club Ladies!  Looking forward to next month! 

Paula - February - Friday February 21st

Location TBA

Last Guard Out by Jim Albright

Book Description

The Last Guard Out is the fascinating true story of one man's life as a guard behind the merciless concrete walls of Alcatraz.I was newly assigned to the infamous island penitentiary of Alcatraz. Reporting to Alcatraz required me to uproot my wife Cathy and young son Kenny from Colorado to California. As we approached San Francisco via of the Oakland Bay Bridge we got our first foreboding glance of Alcatraz Island with a dense circle of fog surrounding it. A strange sense of dread came over me. I looked at our young son asleep in the back seat, then turned to my wife next to me and I whispered "What The Hell Did We Do". After moving on to Alcatraz our thought on Island life quickly changed and we decided not to apply for a transfer out, which consequently left us there until the Island closed in March of 1963.Because of our newly born daughters foot problem they left us there until June of 1963 making me The Last Guard Out.

Kimbril - March - Thursday March 20th

Dana - April 

Cherie - May

Denise - June

Jennifer Malin - July

Amy Gall - August

Need to discuss dates for rest of the year.  Please let me know when you would like to schedule your month. 

January 10, 2014 JC book club Wine Exchange

reservations under my name at 7pm.

Wine Exchange
1609 W Snow Ave
Tampa, FL 33606

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Vintage) Paperback

by

Cheryl Strayed (Author)

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, St. Louis Dispatch

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Katheen's Service Saturday January 4th from 11am to 2pm Rusty Pelican

http://adams-jennings.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2363701&fh_id=12401


Kathleen Elizabeth Hogan
(March 29, 1971 - December 17, 2013)

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42, passed away after a valiant battle with cancer. Born and raised in Tampa, Kathleen graduated from Plant High School and St. Petersburg College. She loved her job and colleagues at Jabil Circuit and remained close friends with former co-workers at Carrabba’s. No one who knew Kathleen will forget her wall-to-wall smile, genuine warmth and offbeat Irish humor. Even while fighting the battle of her life, she charmed her medical team and buoyed loved ones with her confident optimism. Throughout that too-brief life, she used her incisive wit and practical intellect for good, but delighted in fun-loving (though never mean-spirited) naughtiness. She wrote the book on strength of spirit and quiet grace in the face of agonizing challenges. She will be deeply missed by her loving parents, Thomas (Red) and Ellen Hogan; her doting sister and brother-in-law, Meghan and Steve Tauber; devoted boyfriend, Bill Kelleher; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends across the country; plus her furry kids, Butter and Sugar. Kathleen’s friends and loved ones will gather to celebrate her life, swap stories and tickle old memories January 4, 2014, at the Rusty Pelican, 2425 North Rocky Point Drive, Tampa; 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, LifePath Hospice, the Humane Society Tampa Bay or charity of your choice. 

The White Queen - Jen Malin - October Book Club

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

The date we have held is October 17^th at 7pm 

OR Brunch at Oxford Exchange instead on Saturday, October 19 at 11am

http://www.philippagregory.com/books/the-white-queen

Three different, yet equally relentless women who will scheme, manipulate, and seduce their way onto the English throne.

The White Queen is the story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman of extraordinary beau

ty and ambition, who secretly marries the newly crowned Edward IV. Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for her family’s dominance, but despite her best efforts, her two sons become pawns in a famous unsolved mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the lost princes in the Tower of London. In this dazzling account of the deadly Wars of the Roses, brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England.

Amazon.com Review

Book Description

THE COUSINS' WAR
Book One

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction,"*
presents the first of a new series set amid the
deadly feuds of England known as the
Wars of the Roses.

Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.

The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills. 

SEPTEMBER 19TH - Amy Rossi Gall - Defending Jacob by William Landay

Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012: A fast, compelling, and compulsively readable courtroom drama, Defending Jacob tells the story of a district attorney’s son who is accused of killing a classmate. As the father attempts to prove his son’s innocence, Landay explores uncomfortable territory: can a tendency toward violence be inherited? Is the capacity for murder a genetic disposition? The author, a former district attorney, gets the taut nuances just right, capturing the subtleties of a trial in a packed courtroom, where a small rustle or murmur can signify a lot. In the end Landay pulls off a clever plot device that doesn’t reveal itself until the final pages. --Neal Thompson

Featured Guest Review: Chevy Stevens on Defending Jacob   Chevy Stevens grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still calls the island home. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Still Missing and Never Knowing.

From the first few pages of Defending Jacob, I knew this book was special. More than an exciting courtroom drama that combines the best elements of a legal and psychological thriller, it also delves into the heart of a family, and will rip yours out in the process.

When a young boy is found brutally murdered in the woods in a peaceful New England town, his body hastily covered with leaves, the community is shaken to its core. No one more so than Andy Barber, a well-respected assistant district attorney whose fourteen-year-old son, Jacob, went to school with the boy. Sure, Jacob is a typical moody teenager, hiding in his room all day with his headphones and lap top, but Andy loves him more than anything in this world--and would do anything to protect him.

While Andy's wife, Laurie, struggles with the possibility that there's a killer on the loose and their own son could be next, Andy's determined to find the culprit and bring him to justice. He immerses himself in a maelstrom of angry parents demanding answers, police hell-bent on making an arrest, and the complicated lives of teenagers, with their own secrets, and reasons for keeping them.

When, in a stunning turn of events, Jacob is arrested for the crime, both Andy and Laurie are stalwart in their defense of their son: there's no way their child could've committed this terrible act. As more shocking facts are revealed and lies uncovered, Andy is pushed to the edge and his twenty-year marriage tested. Beautiful Laura, his college sweetheart and love of his life, begins to fade in front of his eyes, crumbling under the pressure of the trial, the public accusations, and the weight of her own doubts--in her son and her husband. When truths about Andy's past comes to surface, he must chose between the life he thought he'd left behind, and the father he wants to be.

Defending Jacob raises the question: how far would you go to protect your family? But it also leaves you wondering if anyone could answer that question, and whether we really know what we're capable of when push comes to shove.

Let's pray we never have to find out.

Photos from Phriday

 A good time was had by all! 

One Thousand White Women August 22, Denise, PF Changs

We actually met on June 20th at Cherie's house.

PF Chang's was awesome Ladies.  I forgot to post this month so I am post posting.  LOL.  We have photos that must be uploaded pronto!

August 22nd book was Denise's pick.  One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, by Jim Fergus

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time
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May 30th Cherie - The Orchardist

MAY 30th
Cherie's house  7pm
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin

At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.
In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions.

BTW... This is our official 5 year anniversary! We started May of 2008! 

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April Book Club Dana

Beautiful Ruins

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Ruins-A-Novel-P-S/dp/0061928178/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

The acclaimed award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, Beautiful Ruins is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.

Also...
let me know if this is okay with you guys...

April - Dana

May - Cherie

June - J.C.

July - Denise

August - Amy Jones

September - Amy Gall

October - Jennifer Malin

March 21 Kimbril at PJ Changs

"A Grown Up Kind of Pretty" by Joshilyn Jackson

A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past--and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.

February 21 - Paula - location TBA

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

http://www.amazon.com/Bel-Canto-Ann-Patchett/dp/0060838728

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers. 

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March 21 - Kimbril

April - Dana

May - Cherie

June - J.C.

July - Denise

August - Amy Jones

September - Amy Gall

October - Jennifer Malin

Let's discuss a night out in April at the next book club.  BRING CALENDARS

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