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		<title>Reading FAIL: The Holy Bible: New Testament &#8211; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not gonna lie. I hated reading The Bible. I growing up in a catholic household and going to a catholic school, religion was one of those things that had to be done &#8211; tedious, but an inevitable part of life. Which is why I can comfortably say that I much like the New Testament over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=215&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream &#8211; William Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Shakespeare. I genuinely do and I put it entirely to my first positive, wonderful encounter with the great bard. It was my 12th year in existence and Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream was on the school curriculum. That year, I fell in love and, as whenever the process of &#8216;falling in love&#8217; takes place, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=213&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life of Pi &#8211; Yann Martel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyena]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok gang. It&#8217;s time for a poll: I had heard a lot about this book, but never worked out exactly what it was about. You see, Life of Pi is one of those books that people get really excited about, but never actually read. It&#8217;s a little sad because it is quite the little gem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=17&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Currently reading: Freedom &#8211; Jonathan Franzen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Middlesex &#8211; Jeffrey Eugenides</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 03:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked many things about Middlesex. Here is a list: The story in the most general sense The fact that said story has a quite normalised approach to a subject matter that is quite un-normal in our society The back-and-forth flashbacky type writing. I normally find it quite annoying, but here it was good The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=201&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Pigling Bland &#8211; Beatrix Potter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If someone asked if you what your favourite Beatrix Potter character was, what would you say? I bet you would probably say &#8216;there were others apart from that cheeky little rabbit?&#8217;. To that, I would say, yes. Most certainly. And the best of those, in my opinion, is Pigling Bland. Yes, The Tale of Pigling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=198&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Australian Principles of Tort Law &#8211; Pam Stewart and Anita Stuhmcke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, technically, I am in the process of reading Australian Principles of Tort Law and will be for the next few months, but I will 100% guarantee you now that I will never ever complete it. Ever. I apologise, Anita, if you happen across this, but &#8211; let&#8217;s be realistic here &#8211; you really shouldn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=195&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Currently reading: Middlesex &#8211; Jeffrey Eugenides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<title>Therese Raquin &#8211; Emile Zola</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now those are two names that are good to say. C&#8217;mon&#8230; say it with me: Terreeeeez Ra-caaaaa. Emeeee Zolaaaaaaaa. Good, huh? There&#8217;s just something so seductive about the way that those names roll off your tongue. And the same can be said of the book. Therese Raquin is like a smooth whiskey &#8211; seductive, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=187&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading FAIL: Illywhacker &#8211; Peter Carey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Reader friends, I have a conundrum: I really liked this book. Well, as much as I had read. Illywhacker is beautiful, it is rhythmic in its touch, it is magic in its realism, it is signature Carey, signature Winton, signature pick-your-favourite-Australian-author. Illywhacker is everything that is good about Australian literature and I&#8217;d like to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jesscreadsbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3485446&amp;post=182&amp;subd=jesscreadsbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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