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		<title>Update No. 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now finished the hsc which means&#8230;.more posting! Perhaps. But I don&#8217;t have that many pressing things to do, and can at least probably find 30 minutes a week to write about a book, and I&#8217;m reading a lot! So on Monday, keep a look out for a post on &#8216;Einstein&#8217;s Heroes&#8217; (I&#8217;m going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=141&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Confession &#8211; Olen Steinhauer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fairly short and lifeless attempt to keep my blog running as I review Steinhauer's 'The Confession'<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=138&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posts Coming Soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As in&#8230;.soon. I haven&#8217;t posted for a long time because I always forget I actually have blogs. But coming up will be a post on either Olen Steinhauser&#8217;s The Confession or a biography of Eric Lidell. Keep your eyes open.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=136&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myths of Science &#8211; Edited by Kirsten Birkett</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have one sentence that encapsulates all that this book was for me: It is the most a book under 200 pages has ever made me think. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=128&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Spectator&#8217;s Guide to &#8230; &#8211; John Dickson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s two books I want to talk about here: A Spectator&#8217;s Guide to Jesus and A Spectator&#8217;s Guide to World Religions. Both are by John Dickson and both are very much worth a read. I can&#8217;t really remember why I decided to read the former, but it&#8217;s really helped get me into reading christian books more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=125&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Cinque&#8217;s Consolation &#8211; Helen Garner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while and I&#8217;m sorry, but I always just forget!! Time to set a  reminder on my phone I think &#8230; So, this week the book under scrutiny is Helen Garner&#8217;s Joe Cinque&#8217;s Consolation.  I read this book only because I needed a true crime text fro Extension English, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=122&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 Samuel Teaches AND Thrills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear, year twelve is absolutely dreadful: it doesn&#8217;t give me the time to read books quick enough for my blog and forces all thought of posting regularly out of my head! Oh well. For this week, my most read and remembered book worth posting about (okay&#8230;.over the last month) is 2 Samuel/1 Kings. So here&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=120&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, but I didn&#8217;t have time/forgot to post a review this week, but one/two are comming at you!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=118&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Barton &#8211; Elizabeth Gaskell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rave about Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and provide an amusing anecdote about Gaskell's inability to think up new character names.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alyssasbooks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5216397&amp;post=113&amp;subd=alyssasbooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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