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		<title>Samurai Swords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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 <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/06/samurai-swords/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Photographer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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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, <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/10/the-photographer/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Lotus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adventures of Tintin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hergé Read: September 2009 Rating: This was the very first Tintin book I ever got my hands on. So there&#8217;s nostalgic attachment to it. Published in 1936, the squabbling countries make speeches to&#8230; The League of Nations! Funnily enough, there&#8217;s not mention of communism, at all. But I suppose that wasn&#8217;t so much on <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-blue-lotus/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cigars of the Pharoah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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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 <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/09/the-cigars-of-the-pharoah/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dreamless</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/dreamless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Ellerton (art) and Bobby Crosby (writing) Read: May 2009, ongoing Rating: Wow Read it at:  http://dreamless.keenspot.com/ Ordinarily I wouldn&#8217;t bother reviewing a comic that only has about a dozen pages, but my dearest Sreyaduck has been begging me to read this one. You should as well.  The art is beyond fantastic. Each panel <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/dreamless/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Megatokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 05:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternate reality]]></category>
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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>Red String</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gina Biggs Read: Continuously, reread April &#8217;09 Rating: Squee Read at http://redstring.strawberrycomics.com/ I&#8217;ve been reading Red String for quite a while. The concept piqued my interest right away. Old Japanese myth/folktale says that true lovers are connected by a red string. Miharu wants to believe in true love, but her parents have arranged a <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/red-string/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peony In Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa See Read: January 2009 Rating: Lovely Set in China during a time of transition, the novel is a story of love, and voice. Peony Definitely an improvement over Snow Flower, in that the language doesn&#8217;t have as many weak spots, and the historical fact conveyed is much, much smoother. Oddly enough, the voice <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/02/peony-in-love/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman in the Dunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Snow Flower and the Secret Fan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa See Read: January 2009 Rating: Absorbing This is a book I wanted to get my hands on quite a while ago. I found it, and a sister book, Peony in Love, at the Princeton Library sale. Two girls, matched in age, names, sizes, and signs, form a friendship through a traditional contract. This <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/01/snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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