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		<title>Two Decades of Collected Miscellany, Now What?</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/10/31/two-decades-of-collected-miscellany-now-what/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a way that seems emblematic of the near demise of this blog, CM turned twenty years old last Friday and I forgot to post about it. Crazy as it sounds, this blog was launched October 27, 2003. Now, you may be thinking: &#8220;Does it really matter, Kevin?&#8221; And you would have good reason for...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Now on Micro.Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having gone silent on this website for two months, and perhaps in a last ditch effort to return to blogging, I have started using Micro.blog again. So if you are looking for bloggy goodness, check me out here.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/27/book-review-project-hail-mary-by-andy-weir/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A creative and unique story about potential apocalypse and a dramatic attempt to save the world. I enjoyed the way the story played out as Grace slowly began to recover his memories and there are some definite twists as that process unfolds. But there was just way too much explanation of science and discussion of how to do the math involved.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying by Joseph Monninger</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/22/book-review-goodbye-to-clocks-ticking-how-we-live-while-dying-by-joseph-monninger/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 11:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tragically, a friend has recently been diagnosed with cancer.  So the topic has been on my mind as I have prayed for her and tried to offer her what support I could. As a result, when I saw Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying at the local library I thought it would...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Man in the Corduroy Suit by James Wolff</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/20/book-review-the-man-in-the-corduroy-suit-by-james-wolff/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Espionage Fiction]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wolff places his characters in unique and extreme circumstances and allows the reader to see how they react. As you read you are trying to work out who you can trust and what is "true" even as the main character tries to figure out the very same issues. The reader and the character examine and interrogate their motivations and instincts asking "Exactly what kind of person am I?"]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/19/book-review-mr-breakfast-by-jonathan-carroll/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed it and found it pretty quick read but it didn’t wow me. It is interesting to think about how various lives can be intertwined and how our choices shape and change our lives. Cliche in some ways but still profound in practice and in the hands of a skilled storyteller.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Books for Juneteenth on Juneteenth</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/19/books-for-juneteenth-on-juneteenth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If I was a competent book blogger or reviewer I would have put together some intelligent thematic thought for today's holiday. Instead, I offer Goodreads notes on two books and apologies.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quick Take: Jesus Wars by Philip Jenkins</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/15/quick-take-jesus-wars-by-philip-jenkins/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the end it is the story of how the church fought a bloody war over Christology, split apart, and settled on the so-called orthodox or Chalcedonian view only because the East broke off and died eventually (sort of). For me, it was depressing. It is interesting to think about this side of the ancient church and how historical events played a role in what we came to think of as a basic tenet of Christian faith. But if you don't have a deep interest in the topic, I am not sure I can recommend it.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book Review: The Endless Vessel by Charles Soule</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/06/13/book-review-the-endless-vessel-by-charles-soule/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Endless Vessel is inventive, suspenseful, and thought provoking. It is the kind of book where you want to block out chunks of time to read, to just enjoy the story. But aspects of it also stick with you as you think about big ideas like despair, risk, relationships, and what really matters.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Friends, enemies, and our redemptive instinct</title>
		<link>https://www.collectedmiscellany.com/2023/05/17/friends-enemies-and-our-redemptive-instinct/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Holtsberry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 17:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Perhaps at the moment of murdering Goliath, David fathomed the extent of his desire, had understood the true scale of his own passion, and that something about this had unsettled him. Perhaps the moment he ended his opponent&#8217;s life, David was overcome by the temptation, now forever thwarted, to try to see things through Goliath&#8217;s...]]></description>
		
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