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		<title>The Merry Gentry Series, books 6-8</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laurell K Hamiltom Read: April 2010 Rating: Phwoar I tried really hard not to let them all run together, but they did. Rather than try to pull the last three books apart, I&#8217;m just going to shove &#8216;em in one post and mention what lasting impressions I have. A Lick of Frost I was <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/04/the-merry-gentry-series-books-6-8/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Stroke of Midnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Laurell K. Hamilton Read: March 2010 Rating: Whirlwind Time moves differently in the sithen. Merry says, &#8220;I wish we had more time!&#8221; and suddenly they do. Time is moving glacially outside the hill, giving them all they need&#8230; to catch a killer. The book begins with a press conference, sometime in the afternoon (I <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/03/a-stroke-of-midnight/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr. Norrell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susanna Clarke Read: December 2009 Rating: Engrossing For the record, I am including this in the 2009 50Book list, because I read the vast majority of it during December. So there. Mein gott, this has been sitting on my shelf since FOREVER. And it is one daunting brick of a book, too. Over 1000 <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/01/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>General Winston&#8217;s Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharon Shinn Read : June 2009 Rating: Ho hum? Well, it wasn&#8217;t terrible. There were some good points, but it certainly wasn&#8217;t Shinn&#8217;s best. (It&#8217;s feeling a little redundant saying that&#8230;) Essentially, it&#8217;s a story of imperialism, told for a young adult audience with a penchant for romance. Averie&#8217;s father is a general in <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/07/general-winstons-daughter/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Megatokyo</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Fred Gallagher Read: Continuously, reread May 2009 Rating: Brills Get sucked in: http://www.megatokyo.com/ If you&#8217;ve been reading webcomics for any period of time and haven&#8217;t come across Megatokyo you&#8217;re not surfing the right comics. Ever seen the Sad Girl In Snow trope? This is where it was born. Megatokyo is a lot of things, <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/megatokyo/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Subtle Knife</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Philip Pullman Read: August 2008 Rating: Disappointing Gentle readers, it is a sad day for my bookshelf. I am usually very good about finishing the books I pick up, I hate stopping partway, unless they&#8217;re really trash. Even when something becomes mediocre, I see it through, if only to see how bad it gets. <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/09/the-subtle-knife/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Compass(es)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Philip Pullman Read: August 2008 Rating: Intense I totally missed the boat on this one. It&#8217;s a real shame, because I think I would have quite liked it at the time it was published, and I was just ten years old. At 22, I&#8217;m much more critical of some things, and less easy to <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/08/the-golden-compasses/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Victory of Eagles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Novik Read: July 2008 Rating: Intense I got an email alert announcing the release of this book, and was able to attend Naomi Novik&#8217;s very first book signing EVARR. She was excited, we were excited, and the space at the Greenwich Village B&#38;N was standing room only. How cool was that?! She read <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/08/victory-of-eagles/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Empire of Ivory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Novik Read: June/July 2008 Rating: Fascinating I put off reading EoI for a long while because I just wasn&#8217;t in the mood. I read the first three Temeraire books back in &#8217;06 and they have since been passed on to both my parents. All our paperbacks now have warped spines and white, messy <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/07/empire-of-ivory/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cat&#8217;s Cradle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kurt Vonnegut. Available @Amazon.com (but I&#8217;m too lazy to link right now) Read: September 2007 Rating: PHWOAR. See the cat, see the cradle? Book is farking brilliant. My apologies that I&#8217;m not more coherent about it, but I thought it was brilliant. Vonnegut is my new personal hero. In the course of Cat&#8217;s Cradle <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/10/cats-cradle/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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