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		<title>Have You Heard About This?  Mississippi School Cancels Prom Because Lesbian Wants to Bring Her Girlfriend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very rare that I ever blog about anything other than books here at Bibliofreak.  But sometimes something happens, and I must use this blog for social justice.  I regret that.

But more than that, I regret the decision a school district in Mississippi has made in canceling prom rather than allow a lesbian student to [...]


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		<title>FreeVerse: The Green Bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Carroll is my all-time favorite poet.  Hands down.  No question.  

He&#8217;s also the poet that probably (for better or worse) had the greatest impact on my own poetry, back when I did things like write poetry.
My autographed copy of Fear of Dreaming, which is an anthology of his work, is probably my most prized [...]


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		<title>American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really no wonder that this was shortlisted for the National Book Award (Young People&#8217;s category) and won the Printz award.  It&#8217;s one of those highly literary stories that trancscends the young adult or genre or the graphic novel genre.  In fact, I think it may be enhanced by them.

Three different stories are woven together, [...]


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		<title>US/Canada &amp; Int&#8217;l Give Away!</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/give-aways/uscanada-intl-give/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to TLC Book Tours and Ballantine books, I get to give away a copy of Johanna Moran&#8217;s The Wives of Henry Oades!

Yay!
One lucky person, with a U.S. or Canada address, will win a new copy of the book!
But wait, there&#8217;s more!
I also have a galley of the book, that I&#8217;m going to give away [...]


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		<title>The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/fiction/wives-henry-oades-iby-johanna-morani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really wanted to love this book.  But I just couldn&#8217;t.  It needs a couple of more drafts before really getting there.  

The story is based on a real court case from the late 1800&#8217;s.  Henry Oades and his wife, Margaret, and their children travel from England to New Zealand, where Henry is taking a [...]


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		<title>2 Challenges Trish Is Hosting</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/challenges/2-challenges-trish-hosting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trish from Trish&#8217;s Reading Nook is hosting a couple of challenges coming up, and since I already knew I&#8217;d be joining one, I decided I might as well join the other&#8230;I&#8217;m writing one post already, right?

Besides, The Classics Challenge sounds really tempting!
You can sign up to read four, five, or six classics.  I&#8217;m going to [...]


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		<title>The Sandman: The Doll&#8217;s House by Neil Gaiman</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/fiction/sandman-dolls-house-iby-neil-gaimani/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though I&#8217;d just read the first of the Sandman graphic novels a week ago, I appreciated the summary in the beginning of Volume 2.  Instead of really refreshing things for me, it served more to better my understanding.  

What I realized is that there is so much going on in these books, so much [...]


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		<title>The Forty Rules of Love Give Away!</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/give-aways/forty-rules-love-give/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just so happen to have an extra copy of The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.

So, I&#8217;m going to send it to one of you!  Yay!
But wait, there&#8217;s more!
I know that a lot of my give aways lately have been U.S./Canada only because they&#8217;ve been coming straight from the publishers, but this is [...]


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		<title>Crashing Parties &amp; Blaspheming God for Love</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/fiction/crashing-parties-blaspheming-god-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at that other job I have where I write stuff and don&#8217;t get paid either, I&#8217;ve had a couple of articles lately.  

Most recently, I reviewed Elif Shafak&#8217;s The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi.
The novel goes back and forth between the story of Ella Rubinstein, and her increasing interest in a [...]


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		<title>FreeVerse: To the Phoenix</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/memes/freeverse-phoenix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cara is still on blogging hiatus, but she&#8217;s set up some FreeVerse posts, so onward we march, in search of love, and truth, and iambic pentameter.

Robert Pinsky is one of my favorite poets.  I did a paper on his collection Jersey Rain in college, and then about a year after I graduated I went to a [...]


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