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	<title>Bibliofreakblog &#187; politics</title>
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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 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>Fables vol 7: Arabian Nights (and Days) by Bill Williamson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arabian Fables have sent a delegation to Fabletown, led by Sinbad.  Cultural differences abound but guess who steps in to save everyone&#8217;s face?  King Cole, the former Mayor.

There are some truly funny moments as King Cole translates Prince Charming&#8217;s stark words into flourishing Arabic (marked by using a different font).  
Having read 1001 Nights [...]


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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>The Sandman: Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we have Fables &#38; Reflections the 6th volume of the Sandman series.  This is one of those volumes that doesn&#8217;t have an over-arcing storyline, so Imma break it down for you.

First we have a little prelude, where Morpheus give a fledgling director the courage to try.  I&#8217;m sorta reminded of Arthur Dent learning to fly [...]


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		<title>The Last War by Ana Menéndez</title>
		<link>http://bibliofreakblog.com/fiction/war-iby-ana-menndezi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really wanted to love this book, but it&#8217;s over-narration killed it for me.  Never in recent memory has it taken me so long to get through a book so short (just over 200 pages).

The writing, at times, can be really beautiful, too.  And there&#8217;s some spots, where Ana Menéndez really nails it, such as [...]


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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>Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T. Oldfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life seems perfect for Thursday Next.  She&#8217;s just gotten married to the love of her life,  saved the world from Acheron Hades, improved Jane Eyre, and basically ended the Crimean war, which has been going on for about 150 years.  

Sure, she&#8217;s still stuck in the Literary Detectives, and being hounded by the spec-ops publicity [...]


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