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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>
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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 within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=143&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading: Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;Under the Dome&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/reading-stephen-kings-under-the-dome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned probably several times previously on this blog (though not recently as I have written relatively little on it in recent weeks and/or months) I am a fan of Stephen King.  So you can be damn well sure that I went ahead and bought his latest novel Under the Dome not long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=141&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dickens&#8217; &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; Manuscript</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/dickens-a-christmas-carol-manuscript/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Christmas Carol]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I find it hard to describe the joy I feel in finding The New York Times interactive manuscript of Charles Dickens&#8217; &#8220;A Christmas Carol.&#8221;  It is such a wonderful feature presenting a well known story in a way that many of us may never have engaged it before.  The fact that it is the only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=138&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vonnegut on the Read/Re-Read</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/vonnegut-on-the-readre-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harrison Bergeron]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Slaughter-House Five]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[So it goes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welcome to the Monkey House]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/?p=135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I finished re-reading Kurt Vonnegut jr&#8217;s Slaughter-House Five for about the fifth or sixth time.  Even considering that I pretty much know the book by heart now I still love reading it again and again.  it is very easily high up on my list of favorite all-time books and Vonnegut himself might be in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=135&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today is International Literacy Day</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/today-is-international-literacy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internation Literacy Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy International Literacy Day everybody!  In celebration of world literacy we should all take a little bit of time today to sit down and read something for the pure joy of reading.  it doesn&#8217;t matter whether it is a book or a magazine or a paper or a blog.  Just read because you can read.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=132&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sun Also Rises Again</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/the-sun-also-rises-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jake Barnes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently re-reading Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s The Sun Also Rises for the second time (which will make it my third reading altogether).
As I have likely mentioned in previous posts, The Sun Also Rises holds a special significance to me, in that I think it is really the one book which demonstrated my growth as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=129&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Illustrative Interpretations of Books</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/illustrative-interpretations-of-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank L. Baum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[interpretations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Sendak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrible Yellow Eyes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wizard of Oz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Where the Wild Things Are]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While, as this blog contests, I am an avid lover of books and reading I have a number of other interests as well, a big one being drawing (which is a passtime I practice almost as much as reading).  I am very fond of the visual arts in general and thus have often attempted creating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=127&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Last Lines From Science Fiction Novels</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/great-last-lines-from-science-fiction-novels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many things that I enjoy about the all-things geeky blog io9, but one that fits perfectly well with this blog here has to be the list of favorite last lines from science fiction novels. 
Some people might be put off by reading the closing lines from any novel (in which case I&#8217;d suggest avoiding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=124&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Audio-Book Listening</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/audio-book-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[book on CD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Herbert]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been doing something which I have never done before, and that is listening to a full book as an audio-book (I have previously listened t parts of books in audio form, namely Stephen King&#8217;s Dark Tower Series, which my father had plaing in his car continuously a few years ago).  The reason why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=122&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonderful Mr. Bradley</title>
		<link>http://booksaregood.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/the-wonderful-mr-bradley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fahrenheit 451]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zen and the Art of Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Bradley is unquestionably one of my all time favorite authors.  I honestly cannot think of a single piece of writing of his which I&#8217;ve read and not enjoyed.  Perhaps one of his most influential works to me was his collection of essays entitled Zen and the Art of Writing which served as a constant source [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=booksaregood.wordpress.com&blog=4810684&post=120&subd=booksaregood&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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