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		<title>What I&#8217;m reading &amp; what I&#8217;m throwing across the room</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2012/01/what-im-reading-what-im-throwing-across-the-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ll give you the good news first. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox would have had a hard time being any better. When I finished it, I wanted to start reading it all over again from the beginning and enjoy it once more. It was a letdown that it ended. It was the sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequels that don&#8217;t suck!</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/12/sequels-that-dont-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year, I always get in the mood to re-read Kenneth Grahame&#8217;s The Wind In The Willows. A pleasant story about the adventures of a group of sociable woodland animals (and especially their triumphs over the hostilities of winter weather) goes over a treat when the dags are getting shorter and colder. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Bad Belle</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/12/big-bad-belle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing this review (such as it is) before I finished reading the book, but  most of the original objections stand.  I did finally slog my way through to the conclusion, and while the protagonist (for want of a a better word) does become somewhat less detestable and hateful, the story doesn&#8217;t improve significantly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kingsblood Royal</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/09/kingsblood-royal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/09/kingsblood-royal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.meetzorp.com/?p=1791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want my opinion (and if you don&#8217;t why are you reading my blog?!) I think that Sinclair Lewis is probably the most insightful author ever to come out of the USA. Probably four years ago or so, I read my first Lewis book, &#8220;Babbitt&#8221; on the strength of the prudish, boorish, racist Upson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More fine Library finds</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/06/more-fine-library-finds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go to the library, and every book I pick up is a total home-run! My most recent library expedition was such a winner. First things first, I snagged a couple of Jean Shepherd&#8216;s collections of short stories, In God We Trust (all others pay cash) and Wanda Hickey&#8217;s Night of Golden Memories (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go out and read these!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/05/go-out-and-read-these/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 02:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the last of Terry Moore&#8217;s Strangers In Paradise series and I am going to be recommending it to everyone I can, because it was just that good. I&#8217;m going to link the Wikipedia synopsis of the series which gives you an idea of what the stories are about, though it completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blossom time!</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/04/blossom-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading other people&#8217;s blogs in DC and Japan, especially, talking about cherry blossom viewing. It is that time of the year! Here in KC, we have a lot of trees blooming&#8230;mostly crabapple, redbud, and Bradford pear. I don&#8217;t know that there are any cherry trees to speak of, but there are plenty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to my World(book Encyclopedia)</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/03/welcome-to-my-worldbook-encyclopedia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, one of my favorite fonts of knowledge was my school&#8217;s shelf of the World Book Encyclopedia (1969 Edition). As I was a kid in the &#8217;80s, the encyclopedias were obviously pretty out-of-date, but there was sufficient content that wasn&#8217;t really going to have changed significantly in the 20-ish years between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#039;s too short for bad sex scenes</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/03/lifes-too-short-for-bad-sex-scenes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/03/lifes-too-short-for-bad-sex-scenes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past library run was a real strike-out so far. I&#8217;d picked up My Lush Life by Douglas McEwan, &#8217;cause I&#8217;d heard it was kind of like Patrick Dennis&#8217;s stuff, and I love, love, love me some Auntie Mame. It was, however, a tedious faux-biography that wore thinner and thinner as I read on. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obviously brilliant</title>
		<link>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/02/obviously-brilliant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.meetzorp.com/2009/02/obviously-brilliant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meetzorp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been enjoying a two-book set I checked out from the library. It&#8217;s a fashion history survey based on the collections of the Kyoto Costume Institute. If you&#8217;re into fashion (historic or contemporary), these books are a real treat. The collection is marvelous and the photography is splendid. Some of the more spectacular garments are [...]]]></description>
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