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		<title>Ella Enchanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gail Carson Levine Read: Repeatedly since 1997. Most recently, April 2010 Rating: J&#8217;adore Some books are like old friends. It doesn&#8217;t matter where you left off, or how long it&#8217;s been, you fall right back into friendship as soon as you meet up. Ella Enchanted is one of my favorite books. I can still <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/05/ella-enchanted/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Movie vs. Book: Ella Enchanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Bridget Jones&#8217; Diary</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/11/bridget-jones-diary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Helen Fielding Read: October 2009, repeatedly since ~2002 Rating: v.v.v.v.g. Bridget Jones is a classic of our time. She can&#8217;t be anything but. Plenty of people have gone on and on about how this book changed womens&#8217; literature to chick lit (for better or worse). When I first read it, I was sixteen and <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/11/bridget-jones-diary/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Lotus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: This was the very first Tintin book I ever got my hands on. So there&#8217;s nostalgic attachment to it. Published in 1936, the squabbling countries make speeches to&#8230; The League of Nations! Funnily enough, there&#8217;s not mention of communism, at all. But I suppose that wasn&#8217;t so much on <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-blue-lotus/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cigars of the Pharoah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: Transitional One can definitely feel the transitional quality of this volume. It FEELS like a Tintin book, but the story is quite choppy, and for good reason&#8211;originally, it was running as a serial. There is a consistent story arc, but it&#8217;s not like later books where everything is geared <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-cigars-of-the-pharoah/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tintin in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: Trippy I now know why this volume confused the hell out of me as a kid. Firstly, it&#8217;s the first in the series, as published widely, but it&#8217;s technically the third book. So there are references to Tintin&#8217;s past adventures, and he has a hell of a reputation. Such <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/tintin-in-america/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wuthering Heights</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/03/wuthering-heights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DH Lawrence Read: Feb/Mar 2009 Rating:a Romp I wish I&#8217;d read this sooner. It&#8217;s so wonderful to read a book by a man, written decades ago, that basically asks the question, &#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t this woman be happy?&#8221; Feminist, ho! Connie is a product of the brief wave of feminism in the second quarter-ish of <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/03/lady-chatterleys-lover/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wagner the Werewolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George W. M. Reynolds Attempted Read: Feb 2009 Rating: Goddamn. Just&#8230; goddamn.  I saw this at Strand Books and spent MONTHS hemming and hawing over whether or not I should put my money toward it. Pro: It&#8217;s a book from the 1800s about a werewolf in the 1500s. HOT DAMN it&#8217;s historical fiction^2 with <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/wagner-the-werewolf/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ballet Shoes</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/12/ballet-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Noel Streatfield Read: Eons ago, December 2008 Rating: Sweet You may know of Ballet Shoes because the BBC has turned it into a movie with Emma Watson (aka Hermione). Like Harry Potter, that movie is based on a book. Unlike Potter, Ballet Shoes is OLD. It dates back to the 1930s. My copy is <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/12/ballet-shoes/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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