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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a universal, unspoken truth that, just about every time people sit down to play Dungeons &#38; Dragons, someone will be annoyed with someone else. Players are annoyed with the Dungeon Master (DM). DMs are annoyed with Players. Players are annoyed with Players. If you&#8217;re lucky, these annoyances are minor and quickly forgotten in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hitting Some Classics: Gilgamesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like most readers I imagine, I have shelves of books I&#8217;ve read, that mean a lot to me. Yet among these favorites are a couple of titles that I&#8217;ve only read once or (gasp) never cracked open. Chief among these are the books I&#8217;ve tossed into a &#8220;classics&#8221; section on my shelves. I&#8217;ve got books [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Top Books of 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[2024 was not a good reading year for me. I&#8217;m not quite sure what I spent most of the year doing, but it wasn&#8217;t picking up a book. Having missed my 2023 goal (155) by just over half, I reduced the reading goal for 2024 to 150. Still too ambitious as I walked away with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>February Kid Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The advantage of knowing elementary-school teachers is that when I post about spending a month reading books for kids, they chime in with suggestions. And they&#8217;re willing to let me borrow me books from their classrooms. I was going to dive into my old copies, but thanks to my magnificent sister and my amazing teacher [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Starting Over Isn&#8217;t Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And that&#8217;s where I feel I am with running. Remember all those posts of yesteryear: me running a 5k, me on long runs in the woods, me excited that I was getting faster and stronger and all that cool stuff? Yeah, well, that&#8217;s all fallen by the wayside. 2023 had a lot going on and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stop Falling Over!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Over the last several years, I&#8217;ve ended up with a small collection of Funko Pop figures. I own about a dozen. I display them on my bookshelves and board-game shelves. What bugs me about some of them is that their feet can be super narrow. With the big Funko head, they&#8217;re unbalanced and constantly fall [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Still Makes Me Cry [spoilers]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I finished Bridge to Terabithia. The book still makes me cry, like tears running down my cheeks and lots of sniffles. It&#8217;s not just the death of one of the characters. That&#8217;s sad enough on its own. The way Patterson writes Jesse&#8217;s denial and grief is heartbreaking. But just as I start to recover, Leslie&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time to Re-read Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it&#8217;s time to start a book, I tend to reach for books I haven&#8217;t read. I check books out of the library or buy something for my Kindle app. Except in February. February is when I make sure to read books I already own on my physical bookshelves. In the past, I&#8217;ve devoted the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dungeons &#038; Dragons: Make Your Own Monster Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned last week, a DM needs many tools to run a successful game. The three core books for the 5th edition of the game are: Player&#8217;s Handbook, Dungeon Master&#8217;s Guide, and Monster Manual. That&#8217;s all you need to run an infinite number of games. But sometimes you need to add to these tools [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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