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		<title>The Linnet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>Movie vs. Book: Ella Enchanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I discovered a wonderful, wonderful book. Gail Carson Levine&#8217;s Ella Enchanted is immerses you in Ella&#8217;s world, giving you a best friend as well as an adventure. Then Hollywood got their hands on it. And THEY RAPED IT. Below is an off-the-cuff rant I wrote in 2004, before the movie was <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/movie-vs-book-ella-enchanted/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazons]]></category>
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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>A Knight in Shining Armor</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/a-knight-in-shining-armor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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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>Wuthering Heights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Emily Bronte Read: March 2009 Rating: Poison I give up. I quit. I want nothing more to do with this torturous mess. I decided it was time to try Wuthering Heights because my TiVo had picked up a documentary on the Bronte sisters, which was of course full of people who think they&#8217;re the <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/03/wuthering-heights/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wagner the Werewolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George W. M. Reynolds Attempted Read: Feb 2009 Rating: Goddamn. Just&#8230; goddamn.  I saw this at Strand Books and spent MONTHS hemming and hawing over whether or not I should put my money toward it. Pro: It&#8217;s a book from the 1800s about a werewolf in the 1500s. HOT DAMN it&#8217;s historical fiction^2 with <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/wagner-the-werewolf/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman in the Dunes</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/the-woman-in-the-dunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kobo Abe Read: May/June 2008 Rating: UGH This was recommended to me for my senior capstone project. I dutifully made it to the end, but gawd was it painful. Exemplifies all that I hate in a certain kind of writing, usually seen in short stories. Only this was longer. Unjustifiably so, in my opinion. <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/the-woman-in-the-dunes/'>[...]</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>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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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>Sex and Scandal in England (Guest Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sreya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Melody Thomas Guest Review by Sreya Read Shen&#8217;s review here. For the time being (the duration of this review) I&#8217;ll be taking over for Shen &#8212; no rotten tomatoes, please! &#8212; and I&#8217;ll be reviewing a novel that she lent me. She reviewed it herself, so I guess this is simultaneous. Shen and I <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/07/sex-and-scandal-guest/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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