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		<title>The Linnet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Elizabeth English (aka Elizabeth Minogue) Read: June 2010 Rating: Sigh. I have been waiting to read this book since I read The Prince (Jan &#8217;06). I loved that so much that I immediately set my sights on the only other book under this name. Alas, The Linnet does not live up to The Prince&#8217;s <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/the-linnet/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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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>Defiant Spitfire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kay McMahon Not Read: April 2010 Rating: AUGH Coming out of Beyond Heaving Bosoms, I naturally wanted to indulge in some of the best/worst of the genre. I swapped for this book a short while ago and figured it was as good a place to start as any. But the Smart Bitches have just <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/defiant-spitfire/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Remarkable Creatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Until Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Johanna Lindsey Read: Feb 2010 Rating: Convoluted There&#8217;s a LOT of fun to poke at this thing. Before I have fun, let me say that it wasn&#8217;t awful. It wasn&#8217;t really good, either. BOOK-IN-A-MINUTE, Git-style (Yes, that means spoiler) Roseleen: I am a history professor with a penchant for old weapons. Look at this <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/until-forever/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara G. Walker Not Read: Feb 2010 Rating: *zones out* I&#8217;m trying to be good, really I am. But 50 pages out of 170 isn&#8217;t such a bad run&#8230; The book is awkward and boring and it reads like what it is&#8211;a work of fiction by a feminist scholar that has been described (by <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/amazon/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Barbarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Beyond Safe Boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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 <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Knight in Shining Armor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jude Deveraux Attempted to Read: January 2010 Rating: AUGH Wot the shit is this?! Today, RB stands for RIDICULOUSLY BAD. Hey Jude don&#8217;t make it bad Take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her under your skin Then you&#8217;ll begin to make it better Better, better, better, better, better, Yeah,Yeah,YeahNa <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/a-knight-in-shining-armor/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lovely Bones</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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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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