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		<title>The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/12/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translated by Ivan Morris
Read: November 2008
Rating: Most delightful.
I think I like Sei Shonagon herself more than I like her writing. She&#8217;s a fantastic character in and of herself&#8211;willful, witty, clever, eager to entertain, proud, and quick to judge. All of this comes across through her own recounts of her days, which are honest in that <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/12/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Confessions of St. Augustine</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/06/the-confessions-of-st-augustine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By St. Augustine
Read: Jan/Feb 2008
Rating: MAKE IT STOP.
Every time a new semester starts, I try to be really on the ball and keep up with everything. Take lots of notes, etc. This slowly falls away as things progress and I get comfortable. Unfortunately, this was the first book assigned to my memoir class.
Is it sinful <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/06/the-confessions-of-st-augustine/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cat&#8217;s Cradle</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/10/cats-cradle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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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 he needles modern science, scientists, and <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/10/cats-cradle/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Female Quixote</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/04/the-female-quixote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Charlotte Lennox
Go, go! Get it!  @Amazon.com
Read: February 2007
Rating: Treasured
I truly don&#8217;t know how this book fell so completely out of favor. The Female Quixote was written in mid 1700s, about a young woman who, like Don Quixote, lives in her fantasies. Arabella reads romances, all of which are set in the ancient Greco-Roman <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/04/the-female-quixote/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Journal of a Plague Year</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/02/a-journal-of-a-plague-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Daniel Defore
Read: January/February 2007
Rating: Not Unpleasant
I try to use only one word in the ratings, but there isn&#8217;t really an equivalent for &#8216;not unpleasant&#8217; without outright saying &#8216;pleasant&#8217;, which isn&#8217;t really the same thing. And then you get into all this double-plus-ungood stuff and Big Brother descends to take you away. So, 2 words. <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/02/a-journal-of-a-plague-year/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sheikh&#8217;s Ransom</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/01/sheikhs-ransom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alexandra Sellers
Read: November 2006
 Rating: BLECH.
(This one has some bad language. Sorry.)
Remember that school project about Christian Romance Novels? Well, I got an A on it. But my punishment was having to read this garbage.
I&#8217;m not a stranger to fantasies that involve the dangerous, the forbidden, submission, and the otherwise impossible. Hell, that&#8217;s what <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2007/01/sheikhs-ransom/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Everything&#8217;s Coming Up Josey</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/12/everythings-coming-up-josey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Susan May Warren
Read: November-December 2006
Rating: Surprisingly Enjoyable (woah, 2 words!)
Again, school project, the same as Lambert&#8217;s Pride. I discovered that Harlequin has, in fact, been publishing evangelical Christian Chick Lit! Yes, Chick Lit! How&#8217;s that to make your head spin?
Josey has accepted Christ into her heart, but she has yet to find a man <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/12/everythings-coming-up-josey/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iphigeneia at Aulis</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/10/iphigeneia-at-aulis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/10/iphigeneia-at-aulis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Euripides. Translated by W. S. Merwin &#38; George E. Dimock.
Read: October 2006
Rating: Mixed.
This is the Oxford University Press edition, with both a scholar and a poet working on the translation. The play itself is only, say, 1/3 of the book itself. (Brings back memories of Ayn Rand&#8217;s Anthem.) This was a blessing, as I&#8217;m <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/10/iphigeneia-at-aulis/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mini Reviews (2006, January-June)</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/07/minis06_pt1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Frank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since time and interest don&#8217;t allow for every book to get its own lengthy review, I&#8217;m going to do some mini-reviews. Clod save us all.
This install comes from the 2006 50 Book Challenge, which is going great guns, thanks. Books 1-20 were read during this time period. This mini review includes:

Yentl&#8217;s Revenge (Essays on Judaism <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/07/minis06_pt1/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>1984</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/05/1984/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 07:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George Orwell
Rating: Phwoar
Read: April 2006
I read this once before, in junior year of high school. I didn&#8217;t like it so much then. But now I&#8217;m in awe, sort of like the JK Rowling phenomenon. I really like it this time. And I&#8217;m amazed by the theory and complexity. It is so COOL.
I still hate <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/05/1984/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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