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		<title>The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite disappointed when I discovered that this book is titled The Financial Lives of the Poets (emphasis mine, obvs) rather than just The Financial Lives of Poets.  So that&#8217;s my first objection.

My second objection is that I found it boring and depressing until about 200 pages in.
And then it was still depressing, but [...]


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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>Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is systematically impossible to review this book without comparing Shandi Mitchell to Willa Cather.  Similarities include, but are not limited to: Eastern European immigrants to the harsh prairies of North America; suicide; vast landscapes; early 20th century; complex characters (particularly strong women).  

It is also impossible to review this book and include all of [...]


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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>Ruby and the Stone Age Diet by Martin Millar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ruby and the Stone Age Diet was one of Martin Millar&#8217;s first books.  It came out something like 20 years ago (indeed, a blurb from Neil Gaiman says that he&#8217;s been reading Millar for 20 years) in the U.K., but was only just published earlier this year in the U.S. by Soft Skull Press.

And I [...]


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		<title>The Army of the Republic by Stuart Archer Cohen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this book a few months ago, read a couple chapters, got bored, put it back down.  A few days ago I picked it back up and wondered how I could have possibly been bored the first time around.

Set in the near future, America has become a slave to corporations.  The Post Office [...]


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		<title>31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Ellen Horan&#8217;s debut novel, 31 Bond Street.  Centering on a murder in 1850&#8217;s New York City, it is more about a lawyer, dedicated to defending the accused, than the who dunnit you might expect.

Henry Clinton first reads about the murder that took place at 31 Bond Street in the paper.  But soon [...]


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		<title>American Rust by Philipp Meyer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those novels that comes along in life and just makes you gush.  I told my boss about it.  I told my mom about it.  I finished the book and turned to my husband and said, you need to read this.

What&#8217;s it about? I keep being asked.  That&#8217;s a trickier question.  It&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Nibble &amp; Kuhn by David Schmahmann</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either David Schmahmann is a master of subtle characterization, or he&#8217;s kind of a jerk, and this just seeped out into his characters naturally.

Let me back up.  Nibble and Kuhn is a book about a lawyer who is up for partner at his law firm.  Meanwhile, he&#8217;s having an affair with a junior associate (who is [...]


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