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Reading Books I Read in April 2025 From a plea for moral AI to a British state of the nation novel, here's what I read this month.
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Reading Reading Wales Month: Clear by Carys Davies A church minister is sent to evict the last inhabitant of a remote island, but things don't go as planned.