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	<title>Bibliofreakblog &#187; coming of age</title>
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		<title>Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first half of this book is slow-paced and unlike the first book.  The second half involves the Games and is fast-paced and much like the first book.  Both of these are good things.

Having come right off reading the first book, I didn&#8217;t mind that there was a bit of a slow build.  I was [...]


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		<title>Mansfield Park by Jane Austen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mansfield Park.  What can I say?  I liked it far better than I thought I would.  But it made me think about a lot of things, not least of which about Jane Austen herself.

This review will contain spoilers.  Mainly because of the love triangle, and just what I think about that.
Even though I knew the [...]


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		<title>The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not entirely sure why this was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.  It was good.  But it wasn&#8217;t Man Booker good.

In fact, as I listened to it, driving around in my car, I found it slow-paced and therefore, if not boring, unengaging (not a word, I know, but sometimes you just gotta pull a [...]


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		<title>The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!  I am amazed not just by this book, but the fact that finally&#8211;finally!&#8211;a book&#8211;a YA book&#8211;has lived up to its hype.

Since most everyone has read this book by now, I will first do just a short summary for the few who haven&#8217;t.
Set at least 74 years in the future (because it&#8217;s the 74th Hunger [...]


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		<title>The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bean Trees was Barbara Kingsolver&#8217;s debut novel, back in the &#8217;80&#8217;s.  One chapter in, and you can already see the foreshadows of the voices she would create over the next few decades.

She has done almost the impossible right off the bat: created characters that are at once endearing and real, flawed but genuinely good. [...]


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		<title>Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I have anything to complain about this book, it&#8217;s that it&#8217;s too short.  We&#8217;re transported into the world of  Marjane Satrapi&#8217;s family for an afternoon, but left wanting more.

Short though it is, it does manage to pack several stories in, from disparate female voices in Satrapi&#8217;s family.  Each woman takes a turn, usually telling [...]


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		<title>Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/fiction/shiver-iby-maggie-stiefvateri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler: the guy lives at the end.  But you and I already knew that, considering that the sequel, Linger, is already out.  I actually would have really enjoyed some delicious tragedy where he died and the next book could have been about some of the other werewolves, but this is YAPARANORMALROMANCE and that just isn&#8217;t [...]


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		<title>Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/fiction/hush-hush-iby-becca-fitzpatricki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8230;actually liked this book.  I had invited my Inner Teenaged Self up from the basement where she&#8217;s usually kept and we read it together.  She liked it, too.  So, here is is Inner Teenaged Self (you can picture her has having purple spikey hair, fishnet tights, and doc Martins, and that will be a pretty [...]


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		<title>Hidden Wives by Claire Avery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is riveting.  For reals.  In fact, the pace could have been slowed down a bit, particularly the last few chapters.  But as it was, I found myself totally engrossed.  

Sara and Rachel are half sisters.  Rachel is from their father&#8217;s legal marriage to his first wife, while Sara is a product of his [...]


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		<title>L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh.  My.  Fucking.  God.  Why would anyone ever read this book?  WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?  O.K., say you&#8217;re a fan of &#8220;The Hills&#8221; or whatever (though I don&#8217;t really get that either&#8230;scripted reality?  don&#8217;t you people have enough drama in your lives?).  And say that since you&#8217;re a fan, you want to learn more [...]


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