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		<title>The Barbarian</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ancient Civilizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judith E. French]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Judith E French
Read: February 2010
Rating: A bit muddled
I bought this book because, well, it&#8217;s called The Barbarian and it has a laughably swoony cover. I mean, c&#8217;mon, what&#8217;s more classically romance novel than a dude&#8217;s face all up close and personal while he gaze intensely at you, all the while holding his very phallic <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2010/02/the-barbarian/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Photographer</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/10/the-photographer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Didier Lefèvre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmanuel Guibert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frédéric Lemercier]]></category>

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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, to document their journey <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2009/10/the-photographer/'>[...]</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[romantica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Sellers]]></category>

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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>Iphigeneia at Aulis</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/10/iphigeneia-at-aulis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancient Civilizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Euripedes]]></category>

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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>The Temeraire Series (Books 1-3)</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/09/temeraire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Novik]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Novik
 Read: September 2006
 Rating: Faboo!!
Every so often, the grocery store rewards my endless browsing with a shiny pearl. This is some of the coolest stuff you could ever present to me: Historical novel. With dragons. !!!!! of JOY! Some of the only &#8221;traveling&#8221; books I have ever liked!
And you know it&#8217;s good, <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/09/temeraire/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beast</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/08/beast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[you call that love?!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donna Jo Napoli
Read: August 2006
Rating: Charming
I love retellings of fairy tales. My mother built me a collection of really gorgeously illustrated books when I was very young, and my edition of Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorites. Of course I had to read this rendition by Donna Jo Napoli, which begins <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/08/beast/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Queen of the Amazons</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/06/queen-of-the-amazons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judith Tarr
Rating: Ixcelsiooor!
Read: June 2006
This one came from Strand Books, my beloved second-hand goldmine. The description was interesting, the cover art is gorgeous (her neck piece looks like mother of pearl) and the story is well-told and thoroughly unusual. Very good.
The narrative follows Selene, an Amazon born with the gift of Sight. She was <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2006/06/queen-of-the-amazons/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pandora</title>
		<link>http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/06/pandora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shen Git</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Eastern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biographical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by region]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Rice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Anne Rice
Rating: Enjoyable.
Read: June 2005

I am not a fan of Anne Rice. I tried to read Interview With the Vampire years ago and failed miserably. There is nothing in her writing that goes unsaid- everything is laid out on the table. Sorry, but that&#8217;s boring, and makes for lousy prose. Pandora was a birthday <a href='http://www.thewordofgit.com/readingbackwards/2005/06/pandora/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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