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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>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>Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s debut novel, Wench, Lizzie, Sweet, Reenie, and Mawu are all brought to the Tawawa resort in southern Ohio for the summer by their masters.  Perkins-Valdez researched the real retreat where it was common for Southern gentlemen to bring their slave-mistresses.  Of course, being in a free state has a certain [...]


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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>The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holling Hoodhood is the only kid in his grade who is neither Catholic nor Jewish.  Consequently, he is the only kid stuck with Mrs. Baker on Wednesday afternoons when the kids go to Church or Temple to prepare for their Confirmations and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs.  

Mrs. Baker, whose husband is away fighting in Vietnam.  Discerning readers [...]


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		<title>Watermark by Vanitha Sankaran</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book contained so many elements that speak to me in a book and engage my nerdy interests, I just have to list them out:

     *Church history, including heretics in the Languedoc (Souther France) (This makes me Squee because I did a paper on the Albigensian Crusades in college, which, granted came a couple of [...]


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		<title>Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare &amp; Mustashirk Mahbab</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it is the nature of Comedy vs. Tragedy, but of the two Manga Shakespeare editions I&#8217;ve read so far, I liked A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream much better.

Then again, it might have just come down to the illustrations.
I found illustrator Mustashirk Mahbab&#8217;s drawing to be very sketch-heavy.  As they were not colored in, this was [...]


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		<title>The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran</title>
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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>The Forgotten Legion by Ben Kane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 200 pages into this 500+ page epic, I figured out that this most be book 1 of a series.  The main characters had not even joined the army yet.

But guess what!  I&#8217;m not complaining about it.  Not that much.
The story of Forgotten Legion is based on Roman legionaries, who were lead by Crassus into [...]


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		<title>Odd &amp; the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odd, in this case, may indeed be odd, but that is not what his name implies.  In Old Norse, it means &#8220;lucky.&#8221;  Unfortunately for Odd, he&#8217;s not.  

His father died at sea on a Viking raid.  His mother remarried a jerk.  Not long ago, Odd had an accident when  tree fell on his leg, crushing [...]


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