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	<title>.  Spinning  . &#187; LITERATURE</title>
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		<title>LITERATURE: Hard-Boiled Wonderland &#8211; Finale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overall, this book probably demanded more concentrated reading than I was able to give it. While I did not lose the trail of the stories, I obviously was not so enamored of them that I let some other things go by undone. It was a fantastic concept of a futuristic world&#8211;yet set in a completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: Hard-Boiled Wonderland &#8211; Telling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not nuts about this, after over 350 pages and into the home stretch, that Murakami appears to explain all the goings on that up until this time, we are guessing and forming our own opinions about. Starting with Chapter 25, (the odd numbers are within the past, I believe) and going through 27, and 28, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: Hard-Boiled Wonderland &#8211; At Long Last</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2012/01/literature-hard-boiled-wonderland-at-long-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I&#8217;ve reached a concept in the book that really struck me. This dialog between the narrator and his shadow, the shadow slowly dying, still planning its escape, yet anxious to relay what he&#8217;s learned since separated from the narrator: &#8220;Just now you spoke of the Town&#8217;s perfection. Sure, the people here&#8211;the Gatekeeper aside&#8211;don&#8217;t hurt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: Murakami&#8217;s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2012/01/literature-murakamis-hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LITERATURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murakami]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, let me say that I&#8217;ve been reading this book like forever, or at least it seems that way. To be fair, my mind had been retrained to seek the immediate resolution of flash fiction and thus a novel-length book was suddenly overwhelming unless it was quick-paced action that required little involvement from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE &amp; REALITY?: Getting Back Into Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2012/01/literature-reality-getting-back-into-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well yes, I guess the last full novel I read was &#8220;The Namesake&#8221; back in April 2011. And yes, shortly thereafter I started Murakami&#8217;s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World but in truth, I&#8217;d only made it 200 pages in by the end of the year. Well of course I&#8217;ve been reading! Short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/11/literature-the-lost-children-a-charity-anthology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help the children by your purchase (all proceeds to charity) and read some beautiful and heartbreaking stories by buying the e-book &#8220;The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology&#8221; available at Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes &#38; Noble&#8211;and yes, I&#8217;m proud to be included here! Purchasing info at: http://the-lost-children.blogspot.com/ &#160; The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology]]></description>
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		<title>WRITING &amp; LITERATURE: thirtynine</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/05/writing-literature-thirtynine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third quarterly issue of the fabulous 52/250 project has just been released and it&#8217;s another winner. thirtynine is a selection of the best stories and poetry produced during thirteen weeks of work by an average weekly  group of between thirty to forty writers. The 52/250 Project was based on a different prompt each week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: The Namesake &#8211; Finale</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/04/literature-the-namesake-finale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lahiri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny, I&#8217;m mimicking Jhumpa Lahiri here in using the final post&#8211;in her case, final chapter&#8211;as a summary and wrap-up of the story. To be fair, I believe that yes, The Namesake likely (obviously) earned its place on the New York Times Bestseller List at the time. My failure to recognize and accept what that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: The Namesake &#8211; Leit Motif: FOOD!</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/04/literature-the-namesake-leit-motif-food/</link>
		<comments>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/04/literature-the-namesake-leit-motif-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lahiri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ohmigod, are you serious? Chapter 11 has established that Moushumi is having an affair, is traveling with God-knows-who, and Gogol, ignorant, slightly suspicious (because Lahiri once again lets us know this by using clothes as a tip-off, Moushumi has packed a bathing suit), but trusting, is awaiting her return from a trip. That&#8217;s how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LITERATURE: The Namesake &#8211; Conflict &amp; Protagonist</title>
		<link>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/04/literature-the-namesake-conflict-protagonist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.susangibb.net/2011/04/literature-the-namesake-conflict-protagonist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lahiri]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from the train wreck that Ashoke suffered early on, his death, and that damned name of &#8220;Gogol&#8221; there&#8217;s been little real conflict in the book. That&#8217;s why I suspected by the discontented Moushumi at the anniversary meal, together with the within 30 pages back-cover of the novel, that something might finally be coming to [...]]]></description>
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