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		<title>Samurai Swords</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Clive Sinclaire Read: May 2010 Ratings: Pleasurable My senior thesis was a story rooted in Japanese mythology surrounding  sword smithing. I spent years working on this thing, and have done a lot of research. Of course, I wasn&#8217;t able to lay my hands on anything really useful in the months leading up to my <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/samurai-swords/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon</title>
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		<title>The Barbarian</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judith E French Read: February 2010 Rating: A bit muddled I bought this book because, well, it&#8217;s called The Barbarian and it has a laughably swoony cover. I mean, c&#8217;mon, what&#8217;s more classically romance novel than a dude&#8217;s face all up close and personal while he gaze intensely at you, all the while holding <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/the-barbarian/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Thrall&#8217;s Tale</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donna Jo Napoli Read: 1998, October 2008 Rating: Provocative I still remember seeing Sirena on display at our school library, when it first came out. I was perhaps in 6th grade. It was on a special shelf, for the library&#8217;s special reader program&#8211;those readers got first pick of the new titles and were supposed <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/12/sirena/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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