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		<title>Me on Jezebel on The Song of the Lioness</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/me-on-jezebel-on-the-song-of-the-lioness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews of Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jezebel.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a fan of Jezebel.com, though I do wind up there sometimes. Sreya sent me a very me-oriented link, however: Alanna: The First Adventure: For The Crossdressing Knight In Every Girl. Jezebel takes a look at YA lit they loved as kids, and evaluate them now. (Not a new concept, but something that does <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/me-on-jezebel-on-the-song-of-the-lioness/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Samurai Swords</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/samurai-swords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancient Civilizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clive Sinclaire]]></category>

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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 due date. When <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/samurai-swords/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Heaving Bosoms</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/beyond-heaving-bosoms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/beyond-heaving-bosoms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cover art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loved it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[on writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candy "Smart Bitch" Tan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah "Smart Bitch" Wendell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell
Read: April 2010
Rating: BWAHA!
By god, I love the Smart Bitches! Their fabulously hilarious blog, SmartBitchesTrashyBooks.com was the perfect platform for their snarkage, but it couldn&#8217;t really contain everything about the genre. Blogs are topical, this book is more an overview of the genre as a whole, while reiterating the Smart <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/beyond-heaving-bosoms/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Louder Than Words: Marni</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/louder-than-words-marni/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/louder-than-words-marni/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for Feminist Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marni Bates]]></category>

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By Marni Bates
HCI Teens
Louder Than Words is a series aimed at teenagers about teenage experiences. Atypically, the volumes are also written by teenagers. It may seem bizarre to ask teenagers to write memoirs—as Marni says, her siblings laughed—but Louder Than Words is dedicated to “reinforce[ing] the message that the experiences of teenagers and their perceptions <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/louder-than-words-marni/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Photographer</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/10/the-photographer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loved it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Didier Lefèvre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmanuel Guibert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frédéric Lemercier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Frédéric Lemercier
Read: October 2009
Rating: Wow
There&#8217;s no other word for it than, &#8220;Wow.&#8221; Every few pages, there it is again&#8211;Wow.
Didier Lefèvre was a photographer, who became involved with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In 1986, he accepted an assignment to enter Afghanistan with an MSF mission, to document their journey <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/10/the-photographer/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Julie &amp; Julia</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/julie-julia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/julie-julia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie vs. Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biographical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Powell]]></category>

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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 came out earlier this month, and I <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/julie-julia/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiating With the Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/negotiating-with-the-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/negotiating-with-the-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[on writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Margaret Atwood
Read: August 2009
Rating: Nonnegotiable
The whole time I was reading this I wondered why none of my writing classes assigned us to read it.
Margaret Atwood is one of the Big Ones. She&#8217;s made her mark on modern literature, and at least some of her books will still be considered worth reading and studying a <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/negotiating-with-the-dead/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Month is Annoying</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/nonfiction-month-is-annoying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/nonfiction-month-is-annoying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state of the blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shen The RB Git: I have to finish reading Negotiating With the Dead, then Julie &#38; Julia. And hopefully that will take me to the end of August and Nonfiction Month will be over.
 Sreya (of the Pocket): Hahahaha
 Sreya (of the Pocket): I could&#8217;ve recommended to you SO MANY GOOD NONFICTION books
 Sreya (of <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/nonfiction-month-is-annoying/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>WOMAN: An Intimate Geography</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/woman-an-intimate-geography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/woman-an-intimate-geography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie Angier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Natalie Angier
Read: August 2009
Rating: Nifty
W:IG is an interesting blend of science, statistics, theories, and anecdotes. Angier is a journalist and a feminist, who has clearly put in a lot of time studying her subject, both for work and for personal interest. She&#8217;s pulled her findings and ideas together in this book, I believe to <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/woman-an-intimate-geography/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Made to Stick</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/made-to-stick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/made-to-stick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nonfiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chip Heath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Heath]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Read: July 2009
Rating: Sticky!
Written by brothers who found they had been approaching the same question in different ways, Made To Stick is a guide to what makes ideas &#8220;sticky.&#8221; Why do some phrases stay with you when others don&#8217;t? What makes a successful mission statement?
Heath and Heath have put together <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/08/made-to-stick/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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