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		<title>Remarkable Creatures</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tracy Chevalier Read: January &#8217;10 Rating: Illuminating For the Feminist Review I&#8217;m a huge fan of Tracy Chevalier. Like a lot of people, I began with Girl with a Pearl Earring, and have since made my way through all but one of her other books. So of course I leapt at the chance to sample <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/03/remarkable-creatures/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lovely Bones</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alice Sebold Read: January 2010 Rating: Lovely The sort of book that stays with you for a long time. Susie is fourteen when she is lured off by a neighbor, raped, and murdered. She watches from her heaven as her family struggles to cope with the aftermath. Her father is obsessed with finding her <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/the-lovely-bones/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Landower Legacy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Victoria Holt Read: January 2010 Rating: Not Bad I don&#8217;t remember where it came from, but I wound up with a paperback of this out-of-print book. I can&#8217;t see a reason for it to be. It&#8217;s not a romance novel&#8211;it&#8217;s a novel with romance in it. So there. Caroline Tressidor is the second daughter <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/the-landower-legacy/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Birth of Venus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Dunant Read: October 2009 Rating: Excellent The Birth of Venus begins in the most intriguing way&#8230; It is the tail end of the Renaissance, in Florence, Italy. An elderly nun in a convent dies from a malignant breast tumor. The convent&#8217;s tradition is to wash and clothe the body, make it fresh for <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/11/the-birth-of-venus/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[aka The Julie/Julia Project aka 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen aka My Year of Cooking Dangerously aka a movie with Meryl Streep and Amy Adams By Julie Powell Read: August 2009 Rating: Nifty Yeah, this is one of those books that is suddenly on everyone&#8217;s mind&#8211;or just was, anyway. The movie version <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/julie-julia/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hebrew Tutor of Bel-Air</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Allan Appel Read: August 2009 Rating: Disappointing The back copy for The Hebrew Tutor paints a picture that is enticing: Under threat of nuclear war and the gorgeous California sun, the two [Norman and Bayla] forge a tentative truce. They may not be learning Hebrew, but through the miracle of motorcycles and the epiphanies <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/the-hebrew-tutor-of-bel-air/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Emily Bronte Read: March 2009 Rating: Poison I give up. I quit. I want nothing more to do with this torturous mess. I decided it was time to try Wuthering Heights because my TiVo had picked up a documentary on the Bronte sisters, which was of course full of people who think they&#8217;re the <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/03/wuthering-heights/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mistress of the Art of Death</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ariana Franklin Read: Feb 2009 Rating: AWESOME. I go down on bended knee to my friend V for recommending this. The cover and its text make this sound like a pretty dark murder mystery that happens to be set in medieval Europe. That was pretty cool, but I wasn&#8217;t expecting to enjoy it so <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/mistress-of-the-art-of-death/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tamora Pierce Read: First time in 6th grade? Multiple re-readings thereafter. January 2009. Rating: Immortal. I love Alanna. I love, love, love, love, LOVE her. I think I was about 12&#8230; possibly 10 or 11&#8230; when I found In The Hand of the Goddess at the public library. It was exactly what I had <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/lioness-rampant/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Confessions of St. Augustine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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