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	<title>Reading Backwards book reviews &#187; Twentieth Century</title>
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		<title>Beyond Safe Boundaries</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for kids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Sacks
Read: February 2010
Rating: Hmm
I want to talk about this book in two capacities&#8211;as a story, and as a representation of South Africa. My bestie gave it to me for Xmas, and it looks like a pretty rare find to me. I had no idea there were kids books about SA in 1989, when <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lovely Bones</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/the-lovely-bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice Sebold]]></category>

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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 murderer. Her mother shuts <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/the-lovely-bones/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Landower Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/the-landower-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[you call that love?!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Holt]]></category>

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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 of a wealthy, upstanding <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/the-landower-legacy/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Lotus</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-blue-lotus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures of Tintin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[classics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hergé]]></category>

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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 the public radar until <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>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-cigars-of-the-pharoah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures of Tintin]]></category>
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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 toward that one <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>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/tintin-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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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 strong reputation that <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/tintin-in-america/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hebrew Tutor of Bel-Air</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/the-hebrew-tutor-of-bel-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back cover copy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biographical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[for Feminist Review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allan Appel]]></category>

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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 of the road, Bayla <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/the-hebrew-tutor-of-bel-air/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thorn</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/thorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 07:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Mebberson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Amy Mebberson
Status: On Hiatus, Storylines Complete
http://www.mimisgrotto.com/thorn
It took a little while for me to notice that my RSS feed had stopped updating&#8230; and that Thorn really had gone on hiatus/retired. Thorn was a labor of love for its artist, an attempt to get syndicated, and I really wish it had. Now that it&#8217;s over, I <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/thorn/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamless</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/dreamless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bobby Crosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Ellerton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Ellerton (art) and Bobby Crosby (writing)
Read: May 2009, ongoing
 Rating: Wow
Read it at:  http://dreamless.keenspot.com/
Ordinarily I wouldn&#8217;t bother reviewing a comic that only has about a dozen pages, but my dearest Sreyaduck has been begging me to read this one. You should as well. 
The art is beyond fantastic. Each panel is like a full <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/dreamless/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/03/lady-chatterleys-lover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DH Lawrence]]></category>

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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 the 20th century. She <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/03/lady-chatterleys-lover/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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