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		<title>Anne of Green Gables &#8211; L.M. Montgomery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[L.M. Montgomery&#8217;s Anne of Green Gables played an integral role in my childhood. For a long time, I lived vicariously through the life of Anne Shirley of Green Gables, later of Queens College and that little school that I forget the name of. She did all the things that I, a child of the mid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=15&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading FAIL: One Flew Over The Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest &#8211; Ken Kesey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had heard rumours about One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest being an excellent novel. It was the type of novel that people wrote about, that people made films about, that people wanted to read and, when they did read it, they found it an enjoyable and enriching experience. Unfortunately, I was not one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=126&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And The Ass Saw The Angel &#8211; Nick Cave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of making a wide sweeping generalisations, novels relating to flagrant worshippers of errant gods are prone to heroing the three D’s – the disabled, disadvantaged and downtrodden. Not so in Nick Cave’s And The Ass Saw The Angel. Everyone is fair game.

 
Poor little Euchrid Eucrow the Mute was ejected into the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=138&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure &#8211; John Cleland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a quick introduction of the title character, Fanny Hill (heh), as a good little girl with few temptations in life, the book escalates into lesbian sex. Quite unexpected from a book lustily thrown into the nether regions of literature &#8216;Classics&#8217;. It, in fact, reminds me much of what the world refers to as &#8216;pornographic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=132&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lolita &#8211; Vladimir Nabokov</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just finished reading Lolita. I was slightly disturbed &#8211; not only by the story line, but by the fact that I pretty much devoured the novel.
Why, I asked myself, was I so interested in paedophilia (if it can be considered that) and why was I siding with the paedophile?
To make things worse, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=118&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirt: Confessions of the World&#8217;s Most Notorious Rock Band &#8211; Tommy Lee , Vince Neil , Mick Mars , Nikki Sixx , Neil Strauss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may or may not have worked out, most things I read have some element of stupidity in it. I enjoy stupidity. Like when boys punch walls when they are angry and break their hand, or when 20-pluses insists on drinking like 16-year-old with parents on holiday, the entertainment factor is high. Extremely high.
Which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=111&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tess of the d&#8217;Urbervilles &#8211; Thomas Hardy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your relationship with your favourite book is not unlike what you have with your most favourite person in the world &#8211; they drive you nuts, they have ridiculous quirks, they can quite possibly annoy the bloody crap out of you, but you still love the heck out of them, you find them hilarious and you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=108&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rachel Papers &#8211; Martin Amis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I don&#8217;t really have anything against this book, but I kinda didn&#8217;t like it. Like I kinda didn&#8217;t like Charles Highway &#8211; not in a &#8216;I freaking hate his guts&#8217; kinda dislike, but more of a &#8216;what&#8217;s that bad smell&#8217; kinda dislike. 
Young Charles is a bit like Holden Caulfield &#8211; brash, sex driven, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=105&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Currently Reading: The Rachel Papers &#8211; Martin Amis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Gosh. It&#8217;s always great knowing someone who has a bigger collection of books than you do. Thanks Panty Shanty &#8211; I hope you never find out that I am only using you for your books&#8230;
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		<title>Kafka on the Shore &#8211; Haruki Murakami</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always get a bit nervous when talking about Japanese or Japanese-influenced books (of course, with the exception of Memoirs of a Geisha &#8211; totally made up by a white man) simply because there is so much to Shintoism that is so different from western culture. Kafka on the Shore is no different.
There is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&blog=3485446&post=90&subd=jesscreadsbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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