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		<title>The envelope please&#8230; I happily accept the Liebchen Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Tracy from Logy Express gave me this Liebchen Award – Liebchen being a “German term of endearment” – and named me one of her five favorite blogs.  So I’m happy to return the favor and name some other favorite blogs as well. The rules for accepting the award: 1.  Show your thanks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1633&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Steampunk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spring-Heeled Jack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steampunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring-Heeled Jack is pretty much what you’d expect it to be – it’s good, fun steampunk set in an alternate version of Victorian England.  The “twist” is that it actually explains how the alternate reality came to be.  It also involves a whole cast of real-life characters, including the explorer Richard Francis Burton, the poet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1615&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Monday; What are You Reading?</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Hops and Other Memes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asperger's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newbery medal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sherlock holmes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what you’ve read the past week and planning to read next. War and Peace, that’s what!  I’m feeling the need to actually finish this book.  Now I’d like to say that I’m loving the book, but at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1610&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Pump Six and Other Stories by Paulo Bacigalupi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dystopian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dystopian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paulo Bacigalupi is the author of the award-winning science fiction novel, The Windup Girl, and a young adult novel called Ship Breaker.  I loved Ship Breaker; but I’ve tried to read The Windup Girl and found it difficult to get into.  Bacigalupi introduces a very detailed alternative world that&#8217;s can be compared to the noir-dystopian-Asian-influenced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1601&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Room by Emma Donoghue</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/review-room-by-emma-donoghue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like The Book Thief, which I read last September, I thought there was no way Room could live up to the hype.  But it did.  This is a book nearly everyone on the planet has read and raved about.  It’s a book I put down days ago and I haven’t gotten out of my head.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Adults by Allison Espach</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/review-the-adults-by-allison-espach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adolescence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Adults is about Emily Vidal, a 14 year old in an affluent Connecticut suburb, whose parents announce they are divorcing, right before the start of a giant lawn party to celebrate Emily’s father’s birthday.  This is Espach&#8217;s first novel. I went into this book thinking it would remind me of my own parents’ divorce, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1581&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Truth about Us by Dalene Flannigan</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/review-the-truth-about-us-by-dalene-flannigan/</link>
		<comments>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/review-the-truth-about-us-by-dalene-flannigan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read this book based on a review request by its author, Dalene Flannigan.  I’ve received a number of review requests in the last year but this is the first one I’ve accepted.  The book has positive reviews on Amazon, and I read the first chapter and found myself interested in the story and characters. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1573&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy First Monday of 2012: What are You Reading?</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/happy-first-monday-of-2012-what-are-you-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog Hops and Other Memes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allison Espach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Asimov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s Monday! What are you reading?” is a weekly event hosted by Sheila at Bookjourney to share with others what you’ve read the past week and planning to read next. Happy Monday and hope you’re all enjoying this extension of the New Year’s Weekend.  I don’t know why the day off today feels like something extra [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1556&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Dracula by Bram Stoker</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/review-dracula-by-bram-stoker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classic horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dracula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stoker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vampires]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve signed up for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Challenge for 2012, and I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself a little bit but here&#8217;s my first review for the Challenge.  The Challenge is to read the classic horror and science fiction novels that created the characters in the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1541&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One More Best (and Worst) of the Year Post&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/one-more-best-and-worst-of-the-year-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>curlygeek04</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy holidays!  I&#8217;m in California celebrating Christmas with my husband&#8217;s family, and enjoying the warm weather (I hope, as I&#8217;ve written this in advance.) Hopefully you&#8217;re enjoying the holidays and buying and receiving lots of great books for 2012. Last month I wrote about 2011’s best books (based on what I’ve read anyway) but now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebookstop.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13749988&amp;post=1546&amp;subd=thebookstop&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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