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	<description>The pretentious writings of a self-proclaimed Book Nerd</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I always wanted to slide down Moon-Face&#8217;s slippery dip&#8221; was what a friend said to me one day. I didn&#8217;t know what to make of it. I had no idea what she was talking about and it sounded a bit sexy. Then the light bulb flicked on: The Magic Faraway Tree. And with that, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 00:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a general rule and probably on principal, books that are read at school aren&#8217;t a hit with the kids (with the divine exception of To Kill a Mockingbird), so when I was handed the book list for ENG101 several years ago, I did not expect to like any of the foes that I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the title suggests, I am apologising for something. It could be a fun game for you (and quite deflating for me) to guess exactly what I am apologising for as I am not too sure if I have readers enough to notice that I have not written in a while, but we&#8217;re not going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was only a matter of time before I was going to write a rant about this excellent novel. Well. To be more specific, this excellent novel/film/ABC mini-series (and yes, specifically ABC as they are an entity unto itself). To make things easier, let&#8217;s just call it a story.

You see, the first time I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pact - Jodi Piccoult</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I normally ent a judgin’ when it comes to literature, but Jodi Piccoult just asks for it. Seriously. As a commie at heart, I care not for the superiority complex some can get over their untranslated Dostoyevsky. In fact, I can sometimes be found chowing down on a diet of Mills and Boon, a grassy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Road - Jack Kerouac</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. I&#8217;m probably going to offend the whole reading population in about&#8230; a second, so brace yourself - I hated this book.
I know. Get your stones ready. Look. I&#8217;ll even get them ready for you&#8230; see&#8230; this is a nice sharp one. I only deserve it, right?

Kerouac&#8217;s On The Road has long been hailed as one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Currently reading: Catch-22 - Joseph Heller</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I was first introduced to this novel (epic is probably the more appropriate term) while on holiday with a rather free spirited friend.
“I’m reading Shantaram,” she said one day while we were basking in the holiday sun. My brain did not quite register this foreign sounding word.
“It’s amazing. It’s about this man who was one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello World!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Mr WordPress once wrote: &#8216;Hello World!&#8217; I too take on this excellent phrase as a welcome to my reading rambles. I guess this is just a little post to note that, while I have just posted about that excellent book &#8216;The Book Thief&#8217;, will inform that there may be posting of reviews at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I am generally not ok with Holocaust literature. I find that – no matter if it is a work of fiction or non-fiction – it has a general bad habit of falling into the pit of self-pity and tokenism; not so for The Book Thief. It is a book that launches into a different way [...]]]></description>
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