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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 01:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tummy Rub Tuesday #TRT or Is This a Trap? Round 1 (Stormy &#38; Mara) &#8211; http://wp.me/p7ZkOi-3w]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tom Waits on Tom Waits (Goodreads) Tom Waits happens to be one of my favorite musicians, so when the opportunity to read Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters came along I jumped at the chance to read the book.  This is a collection of interviews and encounters interspersed with bits of biography divided [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Usually I&#8217;m good about writing posts right after I read the book, but lately I&#8217;ve been suffering from a little writer&#8217;s block.  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is an excellent novel about a man in a small Nigerian village. This book provided what seems to be a well written glimpse into the daily life [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Few Words on Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is part memoir, part travelogue, interspersed with historical accounts of the bombing of Hiroshima.  This book was not quite what I expected, but the lyrical nature of Rizzuto&#8217;s narrative made this book well worth reading.  Rizzuto was provided with a 6 month grant in 2001 to go [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I found out about this title I wanted to read it.  My prior career involved much tissue culture, which Henrietta Lacks contributed to in a large way.  Henrietta Lacks was the unwitting donor of the first immortal human cell line.  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot does a wonderful job at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Few Words on The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Girl in the Garden is a tale of family secrets and tragedy.  The story is laid out as a letter from the protagonist to her fiance telling the tale of one eventful summer in her childhood that holds many secrets.   The tale follows young Rakhee the summer of her eleventh birthday.  As an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Remarks on The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the perfect book for a bibliophile.  The novel centers around a boy&#8217;s obsession with one book and the author of that book.  The original novel was in Spanish and was translated to English by Lucia Graves.  This book was a best seller in Spain and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thoughts on God Dies by the Nile by Nawal El Saadawi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First I want to thank Lauren of Underneath a Book for providing me with a copy of this hard to find book.  God Dies by the Nile by Nawal El Saadawi is a difficult book for me to wrap my head around.  Not because it is a poorly written book, but because so much occurs [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Summary &#8212; The Months of May &#038; June</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 19:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I missed updating for May due to illness, so I am including it in this summary.  May and June were difficult months for me as I was battling illness and then trying to get back into a routine of reading and blogging.  At one point I even managed to break my Kindle. Books Read Children [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Few Words on Passing by Nella Larsen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;She wished to find out about this hazardous business of  &#8216;passing,&#8217; this breaking away from all that was familar and friendly to take one&#8217;s chances in another environment, not entirely strange, perhaps, but not entirely friendly.&#8221; I first learned about Passing by Nella Larsen after reading a review done by Eva at A Striped Armchair.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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