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		<title>September 2008 Reading: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thornton Wilder&#8217;s Bridge of San Luis Rey sat on the TBR pile for several years.  I decided just before this spring&#8217;s trip to Peru that it would be perfect to read on the plane to Lima.  Unfortunately, due to a lack of shelf space, it was buried in a box somewhere in the secret book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=392&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 2008 Reading: Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fairness to Christopher Buckley, I should explain that I read much of his Supreme Courtshipwhile bouncing through the Olympic Peninsula in the back seat of a friend&#8217;s car. So, I assume, motion sickness is responsible for the nausea I felt while reading the novel and the nausea that overcomes me when I think back on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=394&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 2008 Reading: Complications: A Surgeon&#8217;s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Necrotizing fasciitis. Perhaps the scariest thing in Atul Gawande&#8217;s Complications  &#8211; and the scariest thing I&#8217;ve ever read of. But don&#8217;t let that throw you off this book; it is fantastic.
I was skeptical when I read a blurb on the back cover that declared Gawande the best non-fiction medical author (or something to that effect) today. My skepticism was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=396&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September 2008 Reading: Peru: Society and Nationhood in the Andes by Peter Flindell Flaren</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Klaren&#8217;s book is 400 pages of Peruvian history.  Interesting, but dense.  The text skips quickly through pre-conquest times.  Although more information on this period would be welcome, the lack of accurate records of this period gives the historian little to work with.
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		<title>What Should Sarah Palin Read?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JAI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest fire Sarah Palin is taking centers on what she reads . . . or doesn&#8217;t.  I&#8217;ve gather from written accounts of this latest Katie Couric interview that Palin declined to name her specific sources for news.  Of course, I scorn newspapers, news magazines, and television news programs (take that Katie!), so I won&#8217;t be throwing any rocks about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=382&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2008 National Book Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better than expected weather at this year&#8217;s National Book Festival.  2008 marks the sixth consecutive year my wife and I have attended.  This year, we found more overlap than usual in our schedules.  Mine is below with her deviations in parens.

10-10:30am &#8211; Gordon S. Wood, author of The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=376&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Weather</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking out the window today, I noticed the stiff wind and light rain.  Stepping out, I felt the slight chill of early fall.  Fall is easily my favorite season to be outside and I wondered about my favorite season for reading.
I came to the conclusion that I have no favorite season for reading.  The weather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=373&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Favorites: The Bobbsey Twins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently received an email update from a friend in London and was reminded of my first exposure to that city.  In early grade school, I was already drawn to sets of books in the school library.  Those long rows of books with matching spines were seduced this burgeoning bibliophile. 
The books in the school library [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=364&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perseverance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was complaining to my wife about a book I am reading.  I believe I described the writer&#8217;s style as both florid and lifeless.  While I&#8217;m still not prepared to embrace the author&#8217;s voice, my perseverance paid off over lunch as I began to run across arresting arguments like these:
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		<title>Childhood Favorites: Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought it would be fun to talk a little bit about some of my favorite books from childhood, so I&#8217;ll start today with Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard.  Most of these books were read multiple times, but I probably read and dipped into Big Red more than any other.  In fact, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bookpress.wordpress.com&blog=343675&post=355&subd=bookpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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