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		<title>If the Harry Potter Series Had Been the Hermione Granger Series</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/if-the-harry-potter-series-had-been-the-hermione-granger-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sady Doyle writes a fascinating satirical take on an alternative series to Harry Potter that instead focused on Hermione as the main character.  What I find most interesting is just how successfully it provides a strong feminist critique of the whole Harry Potter series.  I have read much praise and criticism for J. K. Rowling&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=168&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 119th J. R. R. Tolkien</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/happy-119th-j-r-r-tolkien/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J. R. R. Tolkien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hobbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lord of Rings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Silmarillion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unfinished Tales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, January 3rd 2011, would be the 119th birthday of Mr. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.  I think that it is a reasonable argument that there is no greater figure in the history of modern fantasy literature than Mr. Tolkien.  His novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy are a staple of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=165&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Niven&#8217;s &#8220;Ringworld&#8221; at 40</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/larry-nivens-ringworld-at-40/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2001: ASpace Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Herbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Niven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip K. Dick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ringworld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So yeah, this October is the 40th anniversary of the publicaton of Larry Niven&#8217;s great science fiction nove3l &#8220;Ringworld.&#8221;  I learned this by reading this Tor.com blog post.  I won&#8217;t repeat everything that was said there because I figure that if you are visiting a book blog like mine here, then there is a pretty good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=162&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading: Jurassic Park pt. 2</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/reading-jurassic-park-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[I Claudius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jurassic Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Crichton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Graves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Elements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Gray]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I am a bit further in &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; at about page 100 (I know, I am a slow reader these days, though I do have two other books going.  I&#8217;ll write about them sometime hopefully). A few things that I am noticing so far.  Probably all in relation to the film.  As a note, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=159&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Read: Michael Crichton&#8217;s &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/on-the-read-michael-crichtons-jurassic-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dinosaurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lost World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished re-reading &#8220;Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban&#8221; yesterday (I&#8217;ve been trying to re-read all the Harry Potter books because I honestly can&#8217;t remember a lot of them. Fact:  they are not as good as I remember them being).  Last night I decided to look through my growing pile of books that I&#8217;ve bought at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=156&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Irving&#8217;s Response to an Attempted Book Banning</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/john-irvings-response-to-an-attempted-book-banning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banned books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Irving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamson Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plymouth New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plymouth State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hotel New Hampshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World According to Garp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, it has been a long time.  I seriously apologize for that.  I am making some efforts to get back to blogging, on all my blogs, more consistently, so lets hope it works out. Anyways, I thought I&#8217;d link to this wonderful letter by John Irving in response to an attempt to ban his novel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=153&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angry Authors</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/angry-authors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 16:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insults]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good running list of some of the malicious and angry things said by various authors.  When you sit down and consider it, really nore of it should be much of a surprise.  Most of the people are amazing literary talents and thus are quite likely to fling some major stinging verbal abuse.  Just interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=151&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Without a Cover: What Are You Reading?</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/without-a-cover-what-are-you-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnes & Noble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GoodReads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LibraryThing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelfari]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful New York Times article discussing the change in how we find what others are reading in a day and age of increasingly digital format books. Really it provides a whole different take on the change of reading format.  While the content of the writing might be what is actually sought in books, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=149&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wear a Book Cover</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/wear-a-book-cover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the idea of Out of Print T-Shirts.  It offers so much to the modern book reader.  1) A stylis t-shirt with the cover of a favorite literary classic on the front. 2) A great conversation starter (&#8220;Oh you like Moby Dick?&#8221; &#8220;Why yes, yes I do.&#8221;). 3) The opportunity to provide some good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=146&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judging Books By Their Covers</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/judging-books-by-their-covers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book covers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Queenan writes a wonderful essay in The New York Times titled &#8220;When Bad Covers Happen to Good Books&#8221; which addresses another end of the popular proverb of not judging books by their covers. I think that Queenan makes a reasonable point about the aethetic appeal of books.  While certainly readers pursue books for the content [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4810684&amp;post=143&amp;subd=booksaregood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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