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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>Dreamless</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/05/red-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
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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 Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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 <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/12/the-pillow-book-of-sei-shonagon/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alison Fell Read: July 2008 Rating: Humn. I bought this one for $1 at Strand, and so I can&#8217;t complain about the price. I was pretty pleased with it at first, titillated on my train ride home, but I stopped about midway through for some reason with the intention of picking it up again <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/08/the-pillow-boy-of-the-lady-onogoro/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memoirs of a Geisha</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/06/memoirs-of-a-geisha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Arthur Golden Read: high school, January 2008 Rating: Lovely A lot has been said about MoaG, so I&#8217;m not going to give it a huge, thorough review. What I am going to say is that it is wonderful. The settings are thorough. The culture feels alive and natural. You sympathize with the characters and <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2008/06/memoirs-of-a-geisha/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Idoru</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By William Gibson Don&#8217;t send the nanotech after me! Amazon.com Rating: Evasive. Read: Freshman year (00-01), reread march 05 There are two people who may be upset that I did not enjoy Idoru, but I&#8217;m afraid I have to be honest. I found Idoru to be scatter-brained and evasive. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/03/idoru/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing Agent Luna</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Story by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir &#38; Art by Shiei Read a sample online: Amazing Agent Luna Rating: Fun. Read: Tonight! NOTE: Amazing Agent Luna is manga- a graphic novel, rather than prose. This has all the makings of a really enjoyeable shoujo series. The characters are well-defined, the art is fantastic, and the <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/03/new-manga-amazing-agent-luna/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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