Kate’s 2¢: “Roctogenarians: late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs” by  Mo Rocca

“Roctogenarians: late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs” by  Mo Rocca

NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   Jonathan D. Greenberg and  Mo Rocca did a good job of narrating this book that was one of seven on a cartridge sent by NLS. It was fun to learn of the ‘come back’ kids of all ages. They triumphed over age, prejudices, and their own perceived limitations.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maurice Alberto “Mo” Rocca (born January 28, 1969) is an American humorist, journalist, and actor. He is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, the host and creator of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the Cooking Channel, and also the host of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation on CBS. He was the moderator of the National Geographic Society’s National Geographic Bee from 2016 until its final competition in 2019, as the 2020 and 2021 competitions were cancelled and the competition was ended in 2021. He is also the host of the podcast Mobituaries with Mo Rocca from CBS News. He is a regular panelist on the radio quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!

Mo Rocca got his start in television behind the scenes, writing and producing several children’s TV shows. His first work in front of the camera came as a correspondent for news satire show The Daily Show from 1998 to 2003. He played a similar role as a satirical correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 2004 to 2008, and later moved on to more serious (but still light-hearted) roles with CBS News for which he continues to work. He has also acted in theater, film, and on television in small roles from time to time, and has written two books.

Early life and education[edit]

Rocca was born in Washington, D.C. His mother immigrated there from Bogotá, Colombia, in 1956 at age 28, and his father was a third generation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts.[1] He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boys’ school in North Bethesda, Maryland, graduating with the Class of 1987. He graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature.[2] He served as president of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, performing in four of the company’s notorious burlesques and co-authoring one (Suede Expectations).[3] While at Harvard, he also played Seymour in a production of Little Shop of Horrors which co-starred future Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.[4]

Career[edit]

Film[edit]

Rocca appeared in the 2005 film Bewitched and, in 2007, in the independent science-fiction family comedy I’ll Believe You with fellow Daily Show alumnus Ed Helms. In 2012, Rocca was the narrator of the documentary Electoral Dysfunction, a movie which satirically analyzes the American voting system and which aired on PBS in 2012 and 2016.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

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Rocca, Mo Reading time: 11 hours, 38 minutes.

Jonathan D. Greenberg; Mo Rocca

Biography

Health and Medicine

Social Sciences

Bestsellers

“Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been puttering–breaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set land-speed records–and in the case of one ninety-year-old tortoise, becoming a first-time father … In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans–some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some [until recently] still living (the original EGOT, Rita Moreno). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eighty-six helped lead sit-ins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and John Goodenough, who was more than good enough to score a Nobel Prize at ninety-seven for inventing the lithium-ion battery. Then there’s Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties but completed it at ninety years old”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.

Kate’s 2¢: “The cautious traveller’s guide to the Wastelands: by Sarah Brooks  

“The cautious traveller’s guide to the Wastelands: by Sarah Brooks  

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   Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Katie Leung did a good job of narrating this fantasmagoric tale. I especially liked the ending drama and conclusion.  

snippet from the web

Sarah Brooks won the Lucy Cavendish Prize in 2019. She works in East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds where she also helps run the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. She has a PhD on monsters in classical Chinese ghost stories. She is also co-editor of Samovar, a bilingual online magazine.

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Brooks, Sarah Reading time: 9 hours, 17 minutes.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Katie Leung

Historical Fiction

Fantasy Fiction

Animals and Wildlife

“For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape. It is said there is a price that every passenger must pay. A price beyond the cost of a ticket. There is only one way to travel across the Wastelands: on the Trans-Siberian Express, a train as famous for its luxury as for its danger. The train is never short of passengers, eager to catch sight of Wastelands creatures more miraculous and terrifying than anything they could imagine. But on the train’s last journey, something went horribly wrong, though no one seems to remember what exactly happened. Not even Zhang Weiwei, who has spent her life onboard and thought she knew all of the train’s secrets. Now, the train is about to embark again, with a new set of passengers. Among them are Marya Petrovna, a grieving woman with a borrowed name; Henry Grey, a disgraced naturalist looking for redemption; and Elena, a beguiling stowaway with a powerful connection to the Wastelands itself. Weiwei knows she should report Elena, but she can’t help but be drawn to her. As the girls begin a forbidden friendship, there are warning signs that the rules of the Wastelands are changing, and the train might once again be imperiled. Can the passengers trust each other, as the wildness outside threatens to consume them all?”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “How to win friends and influence fungi: collected quirks of science, tech, engineering, and math from Nerd Nite” by Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan

“How to win friends and influence fungi: collected quirks of science, tech, engineering, and math from Nerd Nite” by Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan

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   This book was one of seven on a cartridge sent by NLS.  Shahjehan Khan; Torian Brackett; Maggie Thompson; Isabel Pask did a great job of narrating this fun read. You won’t be bored.

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How to win friends and influence fungi: collected quirks of science, tech, engineering, and math from Nerd Nite DB119676

Reading time: 9 hours, 32 minutes.

Shahjehan Khan; Torian Brackett; Maggie Thompson; Isabel Pask

Science and Technology

Humor

“In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, pop culture, you name it. There hasn’t been a rabbit hole that their army of presenters hasn’t been afraid to explore. Finally, after countless requests to bring Nerd Nite to more fans across the globe, co-founders and college pals Matt Wasowski and Chris Balakrishnan are bringing readers the quirky and accessible science content that they crave in book form, focused on STEM and paired with detailed illustrations that make the content pop. The resulting range of topics is quirky and vast, from kinky, spring-loaded spiders to the Webb telescope’s influence on movie special effects. Hilariously named after Dale Carnegie’s iconic book, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi features narratives, bursts, and infographics on all things STEM from scientists around the world. Chapters are sure to make you laugh-out-loud, with titles such as “The Science of the Hangover,” “What Birds Can Teach Us About the Impending Zombie Apocalypse,” and “Lessons from the Oregon Trail.” With fascinating details, facts, and illustrations, combined with Chris and Matt’s incredible connections to organizations such as the Discovery Network and the Smithsonian Institution, How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi is sure to reach joyful STEM enthusiasts of all ages around the world. About Nerd Nite: Started in 2003, Nerd Nite is a monthly event held in 100+ cities worldwide during which folks give 20-minute fun-yet-informative presentations across all disciplines, while the audience drinks along!”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Kate’s 2¢: “Cypress Grove” by James Sallis

 “Cypress Grove” by James Sallis

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   Gregory Gorton did a good job of narrating this book. I enjoyed the narrative arc and intrigue.

A few take-aways:

–Life is what happens while you’re waiting around for other things to happen that never do.

–Instruments should be played, just as lives should be lived.

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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James Sallis (born December 21, 1944) is an American crime writer who wrote a series of novels featuring the detective character Lew Griffin set in New Orleans, and the 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.

Sallis began writing science fiction for magazines in the late 1960s. Having sold several stories to Damon Knight for his Orbit series of anthologies, and a story to Michael Moorcock by the time he was in his mid-twenties, Sallis was then invited to go to London to help edit New Worlds just as it changed to its large format during its Michael Moorcock-directed New Wave SF phase; Sallis published his first sf story, “Kazoo”, there in 1967 and was co-editor from April 1968 through February 1969. His clearly acknowledged models in the French avant-garde and the gnomic brevity of much of his work limited his appeal in the science fiction world, though he received some critical acclaim for A Few Last Words (collection, 1970).[1] Sallis has been influenced by French New Novelists including Michel Butor and Robbe-Grillet. Camus’ L’Etranger is mentioned in each of Sallis’s novels.[citation needed]

Later short work (uncollected until Time’s Hammers) appeared in the USA through the 1970s and 1980s.

He is the brother of late philosopher John Sallis.

Career and critical reception[edit]

Sallis has worked as a creative writing teacher, respiratory therapist, musician, music teacher, screenwriter, periodical editor, book reviewer, and translator, winning acclaim for his 1993 version of Raymond Queneau’s Saint Glinglin.[citation needed] Trained as a respiratory therapist, Sallis worked in intensive care for both adults and newborns at many hospitals.[when?]

In 2000, he appeared as himself in the UK Channel 4 project Asylum (2000)—a mix of both documentary and fiction, where in the future a group of people are looking back at the twentieth century after a virus has wiped out most of the culture—written and directed by Christopher Petit and Iain Sinclair. Sallis appears alongside Michael Moorcock and Ed Dorn. In 2012, Sallis played a small part as a detective in the film The Detective’s Lover, directed by Travis Mills. Sallis taught writing classes at Otis College in Los Angeles and until September 2015 at Phoenix College in Arizona; he left his job rather than sign a state-mandated loyalty oath that he regards as unconstitutional.[2]

In Literary Hub, Lisa Levy considered his output significant and diverse and ranked him as perhaps alongside Don DeLillo (b. 1936) and Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937).[3]

On noir Sallis argues it is an oppositional form, working not to reinforce American culture but to subvert it: “there is no moral order save which a man creates from himself. Like high art, these stories worked hard  to unfold the lies society tells us and the lies we tell ourselves”.[3]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

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Sallis, James. Reading time: 7 hours, 11 minutes.

Read by Gregory Gorton.

Mystery and Detective Stories

Psychological Fiction

Turner, ex-Memphis detective and ex-con, retires to the Tennessee countryside seeking a life of solitude. He reluctantly agrees to help the local sheriff solve a set of bizarre ritual murders–a role that introduces him to the locals and exposes him to the unexpected kindness of strangers. Some violence and some strong language. 2003.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Myth Of You And Me” by Leah Stewart

“The Myth Of You And Me” by Leah Stewart

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   Staci Snell did a good job of narrating this fictional memoir. The ending is when she wanats to stop telling the story.

A few Take-aways:

–All times exist simultaneously.

–The my th of you and me. You wonder why we were friends.

–Time is meaningless. When something is over, it’s over.

–To her, that pen would look ordinary, like trash.

–A happy ending isn’t really the end. It’s just  a place where you choose to stop telling the story.

–How quickly  a person you’ve liked can go out of your life at the at someone else’s discretion.A history, like a life, is just what one person chooses to remember.

–To go on loving someone means to over and over allow the necessary pain

Snip-its from the WEB:

Leah Stewart is the author of the novels The Myth of You and Me and Body of a Girl. A recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship, she lives in Cincinnati.

Aug 15, 2019 — Master’s in fine arts at the University of Michigan (Learned to make a life writing fiction). Roving writer marries and has two kids (Wrote …

She has taught writing at Vanderbilt University and Sewanee, the University of the South. 

BTW: I do not like snip-its from the web. I much prefer the full information from WIKIPEDIA.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The myth of you & me DB60657

Stewart, Leah. Reading time: 8 hours, 14 minutes.

Read by Staci Snell.

Psychological Fiction

Mississippi. Thirty-year-old Cameron Wilson lives in seclusion as research assistant to elderly historian Oliver Doucet. Cameron ignores a letter from her estranged best friend Sonia–until Doucet dies, leaving a final request that Cameron deliver Sonia a package. Cameron’s quest retraces their complex friendship. Descriptions of sex and strong language. Commercial audiobook. 2005.

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Kate’s 2¢: “No Two Persons” by Erica Bauermeister

“No Two Persons” by Erica Bauermeister

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   A different narrator read each of the loosely connected short stories in this collection  The thread throughout the collection was how one author’s book affected each person differently. I enjoyed listening to this book  and the interview with the author and one of the narrators at the end of the book..

A few take-aways:

–Her father preferred children who were respectful.

–After Alice learned to read, she discovered a whole new world.

–The point is what you’ll learn on the way.

–What humans are willing to do and for each other.

–words and books turned into voices.

–She knew what symbols and metaphors were. The things that imagine the unimaginable.

–He loved knowing a store’s worth of stories and matching them to his customers.

–During the interview at the end, Erica says: listening to audible book of your own book is like watching someone kiss your wife.

From the web:

Erica Bauermeister lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with her husband and 238 wild deer. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Scent Keeper, The School of Essential Ingredients, House Lessons: Renovating a Life, Let’s Hear It for the Girls, and her latest, No Two Persons.

50 Years of Island Books

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Bauermeister Erica

Braden Wright; Cassandra Campbell; Jesse Vilinsky; George Newbern; Stephen Graybill; Gabra Zackman; Barrie Kreinik; Rachel L. Jacobs; Carol Jacobanis; Max Meyers

Psychological Fiction

“Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives. Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Lost in the Forest” by Sue Miller

“Lost in the Forest” by Sue Miller

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    Blair Brown did a good job of narrating this story. Tales of child abuse are always hard to read and harder to understand and hardest to forgive.

A few take-aways:

–She missed her even more when she was still around.

–A lie would lock her into all kinds of implications.

–It reminded him of all the feelings of inadaquacies and failure.

–He felt that everything he’d worked for was sslipping away.

–Whatever use you made of me, I made of you.

AI from the web:

Sue Miller is a best-selling American author known for her novels that often explore family dynamics, relationships, and the complexities of modern life. She has written numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Good Mother, Family Pictures, and While I Was Gone, the latter of which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Miller’s work frequently delves into themes of marriage, infidelity, motherhood, and the search for identity. 

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Lost in the forest DB59666

Miller, Sue. Reading time: 8 hours, 39 minutes.

Read by Blair Brown.

Family

Psychological Fiction

When her beloved stepfather dies in a car accident, young teenager Daisy, the middle child in a blended family, falls apart. The rest of her family struggles on, but Daisy is seduced by an older, married man and enters a dangerous adult world. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Commercial audiobook. 2005.

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Kate’s 2¢: “What Harry Saw” by Thomas Moran

“What Harry Saw” by Thomas Moran

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    Bruce Nelsondid a good job of narrating this book that takes place in New South Wales. Harry shares a stream of consciousness to make the narrative arc plausible.

A few take-aways:

–How everything shifts and changes between people

–There doesn’t seem to beany going back, once a change has happened.

–How you behave one time, isn’t any indicator of how you’ll behave another time.

–Autumn to Autumn and ‘round again.

–Life is like some long-distance race: no real finish line.

Thomas Moran is an author of fiction, known for novels like “The Man in the Box”. He also has a strong connection to the world of journalism, having received a Pulitzer nomination for his investigative reporting. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Moran was born and raised near Baltimore. He attended the University of Maryland and The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At twenty-eight, after five years as a journalist, he earned a Pulitzer nomination in investigative reporting for a series of stories on Mafia activities in New York City. He has written five novels, several of which have been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin prize. In 2001, Moran was awarded the prestigious Tennessee Williams Fellowship by the University of the South.

Moran’s novels have been translated into German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese. Moran and his family divide their time between Woodstock, N.Y., New York City, and Europe.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

What Harry saw DB56538

Moran, Thomas. Reading time: 11 hours, 49 minutes.

Read by Bruce Nelson.

Human Relations

Psychological Fiction

Penetrating journey into the mind of Australian veteran Harry Hull. Returning from the Vietnam War scarred and traumatized, he struggles to cope. Harry’s post-war existence is full of emotional and complicated relationships–he has an alcoholic father and a stormy love life. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2002.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Not Guilty” by Patricia MacDonald

“Not Guilty” by Patricia MacDonald

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   Margaret Strom read this tense story very well.  It was unfortunate that it took the son’s desperarate measure to get the mOther to believe him. The ending was very interesting, once we were clued in on the back-ground of it all.

AI from the web:

MacDonald grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and has a master’s degree from Boston College. Before writing her own novels she was a book editor and was once an editor for a soap opera magazine in New York. She is married to writer Art Bourgeau. They live in Cape May, New Jersey and have one daughter.

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Not guilty DB56778

MacDonald, Patricia J. Reading time: 14 hours, 20 minutes.

Read by Margaret Strom.

Suspense Fiction

Psychological Fiction

Keely Weaver is shocked when her second husband drowns in their pool. She is stunned when her teenage son, Dylan, is accused of his stepfather’s murder and also that of his father years ago. Keely uses all her resources to find the real killer. Some violence and some strong language. 2002.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Beneath Dark Waters” by Karren Rose

“Beneath Dark Waters” by Karren Rose

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   Lee Osorio did a great job of narrating this lengthy book. I felt the author had introduced too many characters too soon for me to keep track of, but eventually each came into focus. Their place in the narrative became apparent and I like the way the author drew them all together for the ending.

   I enjoyed this book and missed several on-line meetings to continue reading straight through to the end.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

www.karenrosebooks.com

Karen Rose (born Karen Rose Hafer in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an internationally bestselling, RITA-award winning romantic suspense author. Rose was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. She met her husband, Martin, on a blind date when they were seventeen and after they both graduated from the University of Maryland (Karen with a degree in chemical engineering), they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen worked as a chemical engineer for a large consumer goods company, earning two patents, but as Karen says, “scenes were roiling in my head and I couldn’t concentrate on my job so I started writing them down. I started out writing for fun, and soon found I was hooked.”

Her debut suspense novel, Don’t Tell, was released in July, 2003. Since then, she has published more than fifteen novels and two novellas. Her twenty-fifth novel, Say No More, was released in August 2020.

Karen’s books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, London’s Sunday Times, and Germany’s Der Spiegel (#1), and the Irish Times, as well as lists in South Africa (#1) and Australia.

Her novels, I’m Watching You and Silent Scream, received the Romance Writers of America’s RITA award for Best Romantic Suspense for 2005 and 2011. Five of her other books have been RITA finalists. To date, her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Karen’s books are set in different US states. The books are connected, and characters from previous novels usually make appearances, even if they are not from those places.[1]

A former high school teacher of chemistry and physics, Karen lives in Florida with her husband of more than thirty years and her dog, Loki.[2]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Beneath dark waters DB128255

Rose, Karen. Reading time: 19 hours, 53 minutes.

Read by Osorio, Lee.

Mystery and Detective Stories

Romantic Suspense

“There’s no safe place for a child to hide when the danger comes from every direction. Public prosecutor J.P. “Kaj” Cardozo has lived in New Orleans for only six months, and he’s already working on a high-profile celebrity sexual assault case that has made headlines all over the country. But when his son becomes the target of a kidnapping attempt as a threat to Kaj, he is desperate to keep him safe and turns to a private investigative firm famous for their protection services. A former marine, Val Sorensen is glad to have found a new career with Broussard Investigations, and her latest assignment as the bodyguard of ten-year-old Elijah Cardozo reminds her why: Val is a kick ass guardian with a tender heart. Through her duties, Val grows fond of the boy–and his handsome father. But when the high-stakes investigation reveals an explosive network of crime through a revived drug gang, lingering deep-seated corruption in the NOPD, and a group of murderers-for-hire targeting Kaj, Elijah, an

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