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	<title>Reading Backwards book reviews &#187; Africa</title>
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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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				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[for kids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sacks]]></category>

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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 in 1989, when <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/beyond-safe-boundaries/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cigars of the Pharoah</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-cigars-of-the-pharoah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures of Tintin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twentieth Century]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hergé]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Hergé
Read: September 2009
Rating: Transitional
One can definitely feel the transitional quality of this volume. It FEELS like a Tintin book, but the story is quite choppy, and for good reason&#8211;originally, it was running as a serial. There is a consistent story arc, but it&#8217;s not like later books where everything is geared toward that one <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-cigars-of-the-pharoah/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Empire of Ivory</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/07/empire-of-ivory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Temeraire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternate reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loved it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Novik]]></category>

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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 &#8216;06 and they have since been passed on to both my parents. All our paperbacks now have warped spines and white, messy edges. Signs of <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/07/empire-of-ivory/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Madumo: A Man Bewitched</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/12/madumo-a-man-bewitched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghosts and the undead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spells and curses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Ashforth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Ashforth
Rating: Decent
Read: December 2005
I&#8217;m unsure how to categorize this one. It was required reading for my Apartheid &#38; After class. The main issue? Witchcraft.

Really, this book is an account of modern South Africa&#8217;s struggle with a tradition and supernaturally intrinsic past and its modern present. Madumo is a young man living in the townships <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/12/madumo-a-man-bewitched/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cause Celeb</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/05/cause-celeb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contemporary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helen Fielding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Helen Fielding
Rating: Excellent.
Read: May 2005

Helen Fielding has proven herself to be one of my favorite authors. Bridget Jones saved me on a 17-hour flight home from Cape Town and I found a British copy of Cause Celeb in Strand NYC. This is Fielding&#8217;s first novel, and if I can manage to pull off a <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/05/cause-celeb/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Stranger</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/03/the-stranger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[biographical]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hated it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Camus]]></category>

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By Albert Camus
Rating: Poor.
Read: March 2004
Category-ReqSchool Category-Ugh
For Rebellion &#38; Conformity, or whatever it is we&#8217;re studying right now, we&#8217;re reading The Stranger. We&#8217;re maybe two chapters from the end, and I am not moved.
Meursault is the most apathetic character I have ever read about. This makes him boring. He doesn&#8217;t care what happens to him; <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/03/the-stranger/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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