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		<title>And another one bites&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>My leg, and then the dust. Stumpy bit my leg for no reason other than he was cranky from being woken up, and my leg  [...]</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My leg, and then the dust. Stumpy bit my leg for no reason other than he was cranky from being woken up, and my leg was within range. It doesn&#8217;t matter now. I&#8217;m alive, and he&#8217;s not. Feline immunodeficiency virus got him. RIP Stumpy, 2009?-2013.</p>
<div id="attachment_307" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/cute-stumpy.jpg" alt="Stumpy acting cute" width="465" height="341" class="size-full wp-image-307" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stumpy, December 2012</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_310" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/stumpy-with-sock.jpg" alt="Stumpy, 2009" width="465" height="367" class="size-full wp-image-310" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stumpy the playful, July 2009</p></div>
<div id="attachment_308" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/stumpy-sick-again.jpg" alt="Stumpy wearing cone" width="465" height="488" class="size-full wp-image-308" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stumpy the valiant warrior, December 2010</p></div>
<div id="attachment_309" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/stumpy-the-hut.jpg" alt="Stumpy on back" width="465" height="571" class="size-full wp-image-309" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stumpy the Hut, March 2012</p></div>
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		<title>Books read in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The number of books I&#8217;ve read over the past year has increased quite a bit. Most of these books come from the public library or  [...]</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The number of books I&#8217;ve read over the past year has increased quite a bit. Most of these books come from the public library or were free downloads. The quality of the free books is variable. Many, perhaps most, I discard after reading a few pages&#8211;and this is after previewing the books before I download. Poor copyediting or subject matter that I&#8217;m just not interested in can be determined pretty quickly, but other factors&#8211;an irritating or sophomoric or mean-spirited protagonist, a plot twisted out of believability to provide romance elements, plodding stretches of narrative&#8211;take awhile for me to catch.</p>
<p>In alpha order by author last name:<br />
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<ol>
<li>Abraham: <i>The Dragon&#8217;s Path</i></li>
<li>Anders: <i>Gypsy Moon</i></li>
<li>Beckett: <i>The House on Durrow Street</i></li>
<li>Beckett: <i>The Master of Heathcrest Hall</i></li>
<li>Bell: <i>The Goblin War</i></li>
<li>Black: <i>Red Glove</i></li>
<li>Bledsoe: <i>The Hum and the Shiver</i></li>
<li>Bledsoe: <i>The Sword-Edged Blonde</i></li>
<li>Bracken: <i>Brightly Woven</i></li>
<li>Brackett: <i>Black Amazon of Mars</i></li>
<li>Brackett: <i>The Big Jump</i></li>
<li>Brandon: <i>The Ruined City</i></li>
<li>Brandon: <i>The Traitor&#8217;s Daughter</i></li>
<li>Britain: <i>Blackveil</i></li>
<li>Bujold: <i>Cryoburn</i></li>
<li>Buroker: <i>Blood and Betrayal</i></li>
<li>Buroker: <i>Conspiracy</i></li>
<li>Buroker: <i>Dark Currents</i></li>
<li>Buroker: <i>Deadly Games</i></li>
<li>Buroker: <i>Encrypted</i></li>
<li>Buroker: <i>The Emperor&#8217;s Edge</i></li>
<li>Carson: <i>The Girl of Fire and Thorns</i></li>
<li>Cashore: <i>Fire</i></li>
<li>Cervantes: <i>Tortilla Sun</i></li>
<li>Chane: <i>Magebane</i></li>
<li>Collins: <i>Catching Fire</i></li>
<li>Collins: <i>Mockingjay</i></li>
<li>Dulle: <i>Death Is Clowning Around</i></li>
<li>DuPrau: <i>The City of Ember</i></li>
<li>Edghill: <i>The Warslayer</i></li>
<li>Ehrman: <i>At Risk</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>Darkhenge</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>Incarceron</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>Sapphique</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>The Dark City</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>The Hidden Coronet</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>The Lost Heiress</i></li>
<li>Fisher: <i>The Margrave</i></li>
<li>Forster: <i>Hostile Witness</i></li>
<li>Galligan: <i>The Nail Knot</i></li>
<li>Ghahremani: <i>Sky of Red Poppies</i></li>
<li>Gilman: <i>The Ice Owl</i></li>
<li>Hamilton: <i>In the Forests of the Night</i></li>
<li>Hamilton: <i>Tyger Tyger</i></li>
<li>Hardin: <i>Crosscut</i></li>
<li>Hardinge: <i>The Lost Conspiracy</i></li>
<li>Hart: <i>Dare to Die</i></li>
<li>Hobb: <i>City of Dragons</i></li>
<li>Hobson: <i>The Native Star</i></li>
<li>Hornung: <i>Dead Men Tell No Tales</i></li>
<li>Hunt: <i>The Rise of the Iron Moon</i></li>
<li>Jama-Everett: <i>The Liminal People</i></li>
<li>Jemisin: <i>The Killing Moon</i></li>
<li>Johnson: <i>The Name of the Star</i></li>
<li>Jones &#038; Bennett: <i>Dragon Soul</i></li>
<li>Jones: <i>The Desert of Souls</i></li>
<li>Kimelman: <i>Unleashed</i></li>
<li>Kittredge: <i>The Iron Thorn</i></li>
<li>Kling: <i>Circle of Bones</i></li>
<li>LaFevers: <i>Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos</i></li>
<li>Larke: <i>Stormlord&#8217;s Exile</i></li>
<li>Larke: <i>Stormlord Rising</i></li>
<li>Lee &#038; Miller: <i>Ghost Ship</i></li>
<li>Locke: <i>Maids of Misfortune</i></li>
<li>Locke: <i>Uneasy Spirits</i></li>
<li>Logue: <i>Blood Country</i></li>
<li>Lyons: <i>Snake Skin</i></li>
<li>MacBride: <i>Cold Granite</i></li>
<li>MacKenzie: <i>The Vanity Girl</i></li>
<li>Mafi: <i>Shatter Me</i></li>
<li>Marks: <i>Water Logic</i></li>
<li>McCaffrey: <i>The Dragonriders of Pern (Dragonflight; Dragonquest; The White Dragon)</i></li>
<li>McDermid: <i>The Retribution</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>The Bards of Bone Plain</i></li>
<li>McOmber: <i>The White Forest</i></li>
<li>Mieville: <i>Embassytown</i></li>
<li>Moon: <i>Dragon Badge</i></li>
<li>Moon: <i>Echoes of Betrayal</i></li>
<li>Moon: <i>Kings of the North</i></li>
<li>Moon: <i>Oath of Fealty</i></li>
<li>Ness: <i>The Knife of Never Letting Go</i></li>
<li>Neumeier: <i>The Floating Islands</i></li>
<li>Nix: <i>Shade&#8217;s Children</i></li>
<li>Novik: <i>Crucible of Gold</i></li>
<li>Oswald: <i>Natural Causes</i></li>
<li>Parker: <i>Devices and Desires</i></li>
<li>Patrone: <i>Death Is a Relative Thing</i></li>
<li>Peterfreund: <i>Rampant</i></li>
<li>Pierce: <i>Mastiff</i></li>
<li>Pierce: <i>Terrier</i></li>
<li>Pierce: <i>Trickster&#8217;s Choice</i></li>
<li>Pierce: <i>Trickster&#8217;s Queen</i></li>
<li>Priest: <i>Fathom</i></li>
<li>Richardson: <i>Labyrinth</i></li>
<li>Rusch: <i>Alien Influences</i></li>
<li>Rusch: <i>City of Ruins</i></li>
<li>Rusch: <i>Diving into the Wreck</i></li>
<li>Schafer: <i>The Whitefire Crossing</i></li>
<li>Shure: <i>The Baba Yaga</i></li>
<li>Siger: <i>Murder in Mykonos</i></li>
<li>Simon: <i>Mew for Murder</i></li>
<li>Tepper: <i>The Waters Rising</i></li>
<li>Urban: <i>A Single Deadly Truth</i></li>
<li>Vande Velde: <i>Heir Apparent</i></li>
<li>Walton: <i>Among Others</i></li>
<li>Wells: <i>The Cloud Roads</i></li>
<li>Wells: <i>The Serpent Sea</i></li>
<li>Wrede: <i>The Thirteenth Child</i></li>
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		<title>Tutone was a friend of mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Back in 2008, I&#8217;d see this cute little cat hanging around in the backyard. We left food out for her, and after about a year  [...]</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_301" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 478px"><a href="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/Tutone-07-24-08-final.jpg"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/Tutone-07-24-08-final.jpg" alt="" title="Tutone&#039;s first photo" width="468" height="340" class="size-full wp-image-301" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tutone, taken July 24, 2008<br />? &#8211; June 18, 2012</p></div>
<p>Back in 2008, I&#8217;d see this cute little cat hanging around in the backyard. We left food out for her, and after about a year she joined the family permanently.</p>
<p>She loved to be petted. She needed to be petted. She was so happy to have humans again, she followed us all around and got underfoot, literally. She had belonged to someone before; she&#8217;d been fixed. Her inside manners weren&#8217;t so good at first. She had to relearn how to use a cat box. But she didn&#8217;t intend to be bad.</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t like other cats much. She and Sydney hated each other. But before Sydney died the two had reached accommodation.</p>
<p>Her relationship with Stumpy was always a problem. He&#8217;s a big bully, and she was terrified of him. We had to make sure she wasn&#8217;t alone with him unless she had a safe corner.</p>
<p>We knew she was an older cat, but I thought we&#8217;d have a few more years with her. She died just a year and three months after Sydney.</p>
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		<title>Books read in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The books I&#8217;ve read this year, in alphabetic order by author last name.<span id="more-298"></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Aguirre: <i>Wanderlust</i></li>
<li>Atwood: <i>The Year of the Flood</i></li>
<li>Baker: <i>The Bird of </i></li> [...]</ol>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The books I&#8217;ve read this year, in alphabetic order by author last name.<span id="more-298"></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Aguirre: <i>Wanderlust</i></li>
<li>Atwood: <i>The Year of the Flood</i></li>
<li>Baker: <i>The Bird of the River</i></li>
<li>Bell: <i>The Goblin Gate</i></li>
<li>Berg: <i>Breath and Bone</i></li>
<li>Berg: <i>Flesh and Spirit</i></li>
<li>Berg: <i>Guardians of the Keep</i></li>
<li>Berg: <i>The Soul Mirror</i></li>
<li>Berg: <i>The Soul Weaver</i></li>
<li>Berg: <i>The Spirit Lens</i></li>
<li>Biggers: <i>The Agony Column</i></li>
<li>Bishop: <i>Airs of Night and Sea</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>Stormqueen!</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>The Door Through Space</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>The Heritage of Hastur</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>To Save a World (The Planet Savers; The World Wreckers)</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>Traitor&#8217;s Sun</i></li>
<li>Brennan: <i>The Demon&#8217;s Lexicon</i></li>
<li>Britain: <i>The High King&#8217;s Tomb</i></li>
<li>Brooks: <i>The Elfstones of Shannara</i></li>
<li>Canavan: <i>The Ambassador&#8217;s Mission</i></li>
<li>Carr: <i>Warlord of Kor</i></li>
<li>Carter: <i>Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy</i></li>
<li>Christie: <i>The Mysterious Affair at Styles</i></li>
<li>Christie: <i>The Secret Adversary</i></li>
<li>Collins: <i>The Haunted Hotel</i></li>
<li>Collins: <i>The Hunger Games</i></li>
<li>Collins: <i>The Moonstone</i></li>
<li>Collins: <i>The Woman in White</i></li>
<li>Crane: <i>The Red Badge of Courage</i></li>
<li>Czerneda: <i>Survival</i></li>
<li>Doctorow: <i>For the Win</i></li>
<li>Eliot: <i>The Mill on the Floss</i></li>
<li>Elliott: <i>Cold Magic</i></li>
<li>Finn: <i>Belladonna</i></li>
<li>Green: <i>A Strange Disappearance</i></li>
<li>Green: <i>The Leavenworth Case</i></li>
<li>Hobb: <i>Dragon Haven</i></li>
<li>Huff: <i>A Confederation of Valor (Valor&#8217;s Choice and The Better Part of Valor)</i></li>
<li>Huff: <i>The Heart of Valor</i></li>
<li>Huff: <i>Valor&#8217;s Trial</i></li>
<li>Hurley: <i>God&#8217;s War</i></li>
<li>Jemison: <i>The Broken Kingdoms</i></li>
<li>Jemison: <i>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</i></li>
<li>Jones &#038; Bennett: <i>Havemercy</i></li>
<li>Jones &#038; Bennett: <i>Shadow Magic</i></li>
<li>Jones: <i>The Dalemark Quartet (Cart and Cwidder; Drowned Ammet; The Spellcoats; The Crown of Dalemark)</i></li>
<li>Kent: <i>Twelve</i></li>
<li>Kerr: <i>The Gold Falcon</i></li>
<li>Kerr: <i>The Shadow Isle</i></li>
<li>Kerr: <i>The Silver Mage</i></li>
<li>Kerr: <i>The Spirit Stone</i></li>
<li>Lister: <i>Double Exposure</i></li>
<li>Mah: <i>Chinese Cinderella</i></li>
<li>Marr: <i>Wicked Lovely</i></li>
<li>Meldrum: <i>Madapple</i></li>
<li>Meyer: <i>Curse of the Blue Tattoo</i></li>
<li>Meyer: <i>Under the Jolly Roger</i></li>
<li>Mieville: <i>Kraken</i></li>
<li>Mieville: <i>The City and the City</i></li>
<li>Norton &#038; Lackey: <i>The Elvenbane</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Atlantis Endgame</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Crosstime (The Crossroads of Time, Quest Crosstime)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Darkness and Dawn (Daybreak&#8211;2250 A.D.; No Night Without Stars)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Janus (Judgment on Janus; Victory on Janus)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Star Soldiers (Star Guard, Star Rangers)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Starflight (The Stars Are Ours, Star Born)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Three Hands for Scorpio</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Time Traders (The Time Traders; Galactic Derelict)</i></li>
<li>Parker: <i>The Folding Knife</i></li>
<li>Pierce: <i>Bloodhound</i></li>
<li>Reeve: <i>Fever Crumb</i></li>
<li>Rinehart: <i>The Case of Jenny Brice</i></li>
<li>Rinehart: <i>The Confession</i></li>
<li>Rinehart: <i>The Window at the White Cat</i></li>
<li>Rohmer: <i>The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu</i></li>
<li>Ryan: <i>The Forest of Hands and Teeth</i></li>
<li>Scarborough: <i>The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas</i></li>
<li>Scott &#038; Barnett: <i>The Armor of Light</i></li>
<li>Silverberg: <i>Starman&#8217;s Quest</i></li>
<li>Smith: <i>Coronets and Steel</i></li>
<li>Sperring: <i>Living with Ghosts</i></li>
<li>Stark: <i>The Score</i></li>
<li>Stephenson: <i>Interface</i></li>
<li>Stevenson: <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i></li>
<li>Stevenson: <i>Treasure Island</i></li>
<li>Stross: <i>Glasshouse</i></li>
<li>Tey: <i>Brat Farrar</i></li>
<li>Tey: <i>Miss Pym Disposes</i></li>
<li>Tey: <i>The Franchise Affair</i></li>
<li>van Gulik: <i>The Chinese Maze Murders</i></li>
<li>Wallace: <i>The Clue of the Twisted Candle</i></li>
<li>Weber: <i>On Basilisk Station</i></li>
<li>Williams: <i>Shadowheart</i></li>
<li>Williams: <i>Shadowrise</i></li>
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		<title>They call her Tutone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_296" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/Tutone-10-10-2009.jpg"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/Tutone-10-10-2009.jpg" alt="Tutone" title="Tutone 10-10-2009" width="300" height="436" class="size-full wp-image-296" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">They call her Tutone, Tutone,<br />
&#8217;Cause she&#8217;s a good cat,<br />
And she&#8217;s a bad cat,<br />
They call her Tutone!</p></div>
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		<title>What does Satan read?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra</dc:creator>
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<p>Found in a library book. What kind of things has this person been taught that they have to self-reassure with a written note? [...]</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, little friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We got Sydney when she was a kitten. A friend who had an apartment downtown had another friend whose cat had kittens. They&#8217;d found homes  [...]</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_284" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/sydney-in-the-grass.jpg" alt="A black cat sitting on a messy lawn" title="Sydney in the Grass" width="465" height="305" class="size-full wp-image-284" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sydney, 1995 -- March 5, 2011</p></div>
<p>We got Sydney when she was a kitten. A friend who had an apartment downtown had another friend whose cat had kittens. They&#8217;d found homes for all the kittens but one they planned to keep. That kitten was Sydney.<span id="more-283"></span></p>
<p>It turned out that Sydney and her mom didn&#8217;t get along (Sydney difficult to get along with?!), so we took her in.</p>
<p>She was supposed to be my son&#8217;s cat, but she attached herself to me. She&#8217;d come come greet me in the back yard with a Siamese pride call. She stopped calling after Blackie came because she didn&#8217;t want him in her pride; it was supposed to be just her and her people. I missed her calling even before she died.</p>
<div id="attachment_286" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/sydney-on-the-deck.jpg" alt="" title="sydney-on-the-deck" width="465" height="305" class="size-full wp-image-286" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The good old days, when she and Hobbes were the only cats in the family.</p></div>
<p>Oddly, she was depressed after Hobbles&#8217; death left her the only kitty in the family. Having Stumpy and Tutone to hate perked her up. Oh, did she hate Tutone. (And Tutone reciprocated.) But they managed to tolerate each other at the end.</p>
<p>While I knew Sydney was getting old, I thought she was so cranky she&#8217;d live past the normal cat life expectancy. I thought wrong.</p>
<p>It was one of the few warm days this spring that she went outside to bask on the patio. Her internal organs failed suddenly; she couldn&#8217;t make it back to the house on her own. Our regular vet was just getting ready to close and they referred us to <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/northern-california-veterinary-specialists-sacramento">Northern California Veterinary Specialists</a>.</p>
<p>Even before we got to the vet, I knew Sydney wasn&#8217;t coming home with it. I&#8217;d seen Thevenin and Blackie and Hobbes approaching death, and Sydney had that same look. The vet saw Sydney right away, and then she met with us in the comfort room. It was a good place for Sydney to be put to sleep. We got to sit on a couch in a quiet room, Sydney on my lap. I petted her, and she relaxed, and some time later the vet came in and gave her the injection. Sydney died without alarm, peacefully.</p>
<p>A month later, the house still feels empty.</p>
<div id="attachment_285" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 475px"><img src="http://sandrakwilliams.net/press/wp-content/uploads/sydney-on-the-can.jpg" alt="" title="sydney-on-the-can" width="465" height="305" class="size-full wp-image-285" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Sydney&#039;s gone to the big recycling can.</p></div>
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		<title>Books read in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<li>Atwood: <i>Oryx and Crake</i></li>
<li>Bentley: <i>Enigma</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>Darkover Landfall</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>Sharra&#8217;s Exile</i></li>
<li>Brennan: <i>Faerie Wars</i></li>
<li>Browne: <i>Warriors of </i></li> [...]</ol>]]></description>
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<li>Atwood: <i>Oryx and Crake</i></li>
<li>Bentley: <i>Enigma</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>Darkover Landfall</i></li>
<li>Bradley: <i>Sharra&#8217;s Exile</i></li>
<li>Brennan: <i>Faerie Wars</i></li>
<li>Browne: <i>Warriors of Alavna</i></li>
<li>Buckell: <i>Sly Mongoose</i></li>
<li>Bujold: <i>Horizon</i></li>
<li>Bujold: <i>Passage</i></li>
<li>Butler: <i>Queen Ferris</i></li>
<li>Calhoun: <i>Aria of the Sea</i></li>
<li>Calhoun: <i>The Phoenix Dance</i></li>
<li>Calhoun: <i>White Midnight</i></li>
<li>Campbell: <i>The Lost Fleet: Dauntless</i></li>
<li>Campbell: <i>The Lost Fleet: Fearless</i></li>
<li>Carriger: <i>Soulless</i></li>
<li>Clarke: <i>Jonathan Strange &#038; Mr Norrell</i></li>
<li>Curtis Klause: <i>Freaks: Alive, on the Inside</i></li>
<li>Del Franco: <i>Unfallen Dead</i></li>
<li>Duane: <i>Omnitopia Dawn</i></li>
<li>Duey: <i>Sacred Scars</i></li>
<li>Forbes: <i>Johnny Tremain</i></li>
<li>Gamboe: <i>The Piaras Legacy</i></li>
<li>Gardner: <i>The Red Necklace</i></li>
<li>Gee: <i>Salt</i></li>
<li>Gentle: <i>Grunts</i></li>
<li>Gilman: <i>Gears of the City</i></li>
<li>Griffin: <i>A Madness of Angels</i></li>
<li>Hambly: <i>Star Wars: Planet of Twilight</i></li>
<li>Hambly: <i>The Ladies of Mandrigyn</i></li>
<li>Hobb: <i>Dragon Keeper</i></li>
<li>Hoffman: <i>Green Angel</i></li>
<li>Hoffman: <i>The Foretelling</i></li>
<li>Huff: <i>Smoke and Shadows</i></li>
<li>Huff: <i>The Enchantment Emporium</i></li>
<li>Hughart: <i>Eight Skilled Gentlemen</i></li>
<li>Hunt: <i>The Dark Path</i></li>
<li>Jones: <i>The Faerie Path</i></li>
<li>Jordan, S.: <i>The Hunting of the Last Dragon</i></li>
<li>Karr: <i>The Idylls of the Queen</i></li>
<li>Knox: <i>Dreamhunter</i></li>
<li>Kress: <i>Crossfire</i></li>
<li>Kress: <i>Crucible</i></li>
<li>Kress: <i>Steal Across the Sky</i></li>
<li>Le Guin: <i>Gifts</i></li>
<li>Le Guin: <i>Powers</i></li>
<li>Le Guin: <i>Voices</i></li>
<li>Lee &#038; Miller: <i>Saltation</i></li>
<li>Lindskold: <i>The Buried Pyramid</i></li>
<li>Lindskold: <i>Thirteen Orphans</i></li>
<li>Lisle: <i>Curse of the Black Heron</i></li>
<li>Lovelace: <i>King Kong</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>In the Forests of Serre</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>Ombria in Shadow</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>The Bell at Sealey Head</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>The Book of Atrix Wolfe</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>The Tower at Stony Wood</i></li>
<li>McKillip: <i>Winter Rose</i></li>
<li>Meyer: <i>Bloody Jack</i></li>
<li>Micklem: <i>Wildfire</i></li>
<li>Mills: <i>The Accidental Sorcerer (Rogue Agent, Book 1)</i></li>
<li>Montgomery: <i>Anne of Avonlea</i></li>
<li>Montgomery: <i>Anne of Green Gables</i></li>
<li>Moore: <i>Heros Adrift</i></li>
<li>Morris: <i>Ruined</i></li>
<li>Napoli: <i>Daughter of Venice</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Gods and Androids (Android at Arms, Wraiths of Time)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>The Solar Queen (Sargasso of Space, Plague Ship)</i></li>
<li>Norton: <i>Warlock (Storm Over Warlock, Ordeal in Otherwhere, Forerunner Foray)</i></li>
<li>Novik: <i>Throne of Jade</i></li>
<li>Novik: <i>Tongues of Serpents</i></li>
<li>Novik: <i>Victory of Eagles</i></li>
<li>Plum-Ucci: <i>Streams of Babel</i></li>
<li>Plum-Ucci: <i>The Body of Christopher Creed</i></li>
<li>Pon: <i>Silver Phoenix</i></li>
<li>Priest: <i>Boneshaker</i></li>
<li>Priest: <i>Clementine</i></li>
<li>Renault: <i>The Mask of Apollo</i></li>
<li>Roberson: <i>Paragaea</i></li>
<li>Robinson: <i>Sixty Days and Counting</i></li>
<li>Romano Young: <i>Cobwebs</i></li>
<li>Rothfuss: <i>The Name of the Wind</i></li>
<li>Russon: <i>Breathe</i></li>
<li>Sabin: <i>A Perilous Power</i></li>
<li>Skelton: <i>Endymion Spring</i></li>
<li>Sleator: <i>Blackbriar</i></li>
<li>Smith: <i>Betwixt</i></li>
<li>Smith: <i>Treason&#8217;s Shore</i></li>
<li>Stewart: <i>The Wicked Day</i></li>
<li>Swann: <i>Dragons &#038; Dwarves (Dragons of the Cuyahoga, The Dwarves of Whiskey Island)</i></li>
<li>Tan: <i>The Joy Luck Club</i></li>
<li>Viehl: <i>Afterburn</i></li>
<li>Weber: <i>In Fury Born</i></li>
<li>Weber: <i>The Apocalypse Troll</i></li>
<li>Williams: <i>The War of the Roses</i></li>
<li>Yee: <i>The Bone Collector&#8217;s Son</i></li>
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		<title>Gone but not forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Books read in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<li>Abbey: Rifkind&#8217;s Challenge</li>
<li>Abraham: A Shadow in Summer</li>
<li>Atwood: The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale</li>
<li>Baker: The House of the Stag</li>
<li>Ball: </li> [...]</ol>]]></description>
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<li>Abbey: Rifkind&#8217;s Challenge</li>
<li>Abraham: A Shadow in Summer</li>
<li>Atwood: The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale</li>
<li>Baker: The House of the Stag</li>
<li>Ball: Disappearing Act</li>
<li>Barnes: The Domino Men</li>
<li>Bentley: Harmony</li>
<li>Bray: The Far Sweet Thing</li>
<li>Briggs: Moon Called</li>
<li>Bryan: The Serpent and the Rose</li>
<li>Butler: Nightshade</li>
<li>Butler: Survivor</li>
<li>Cabell: Jurgen</li>
<li>Carroll: Sleeping in Flame</li>
<li>Caselberg: Wyrmhole</li>
<li>Child: Tripwire</li>
<li>Clarke: Childhood&#8217;s End</li>
<li>Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans</li>
<li>Cunningham: Shadows in the Starlight</li>
<li>D&#8217;Almeida: The Musketeer&#8217;s Apprentice</li>
<li>Delany: Neveryona</li>
<li>Dines: The Queen&#8217;s Soprano</li>
<li>Duncan: Impossible Odds</li>
<li>Durgin: Heritage (Earth: Final Conflict)</li>
<li>Eddison: The Worm Ouroboros</li>
<li>Eliot: Middlemarch</li>
<li>Elliott: Shadow Gate</li>
<li>Elliott: Traitors&#8217; Gate</li>
<li>Engdahl: This Star Shall Abide</li>
<li>Fisher: Sorcery Rising</li>
<li>Fisher: The Rose of the World</li>
<li>Fisher: Wild Magic</li>
<li>Flewelling: The Oracle&#8217;s Queen</li>
<li>Garrett: Lord Darcy Investigates</li>
<li>Gentle: Ash</li>
<li>Gerritsen: Vanish</li>
<li>Gilman: Thunderer</li>
<li>Haden Elgin: Star-Anchored, Star-Angered</li>
<li>Harris: Dead Until Dark</li>
<li>Hill: Blade of Fire</li>
<li>Hinton: Hawkes Harbor</li>
<li>Hobb: Renegade&#8217;s Magic</li>
<li>Hoffman: A Fistful of Sky</li>
<li>Hughart: Bridge of Birds</li>
<li>Huxley: Brave New World</li>
<li>Jones: A Sword from Red Ice</li>
<li>Jones: Life</li>
<li>King: The Wild Road</li>
<li>Lake: Mainspring</li>
<li>Landon: The Hidden Worlds</li>
<li>Larke: The Last Stormlord</li>
<li>Latner: Hurricane Moon</li>
<li>Learner: Soul</li>
<li>Lindskold: Child of a Rainless Year</li>
<li>Lisle: Hawkspar</li>
<li>Ly: Roots and Wings</li>
<li>MacAvoy: A Trio for Lute (Damiano, Damiano&#8217;s Lute, Raphael)</li>
<li>Mallet: The Princes of the Golden Cage</li>
<li>Masters: The Mushroom Years</li>
<li>McDonald: The Outback Stars</li>
<li>McDonald: The Stars Down Under</li>
<li>Meluch: Wolf Star</li>
<li>Novik: Black Powder War</li>
<li>Novik: Empire of Ivory</li>
<li>Pettersson: The Scent of Shadows</li>
<li>Priest: Four and Twenty Blackbirds</li>
<li>Roberson: Deepwood</li>
<li>Roberts: Salt</li>
<li>Robson: Selling Out</li>
<li>Rosenblum: Horizons</li>
<li>Rusch: Duplicate Effort</li>
<li>Russon: Undine</li>
<li>Sagara: Cast in Courtlight</li>
<li>Scott: The Bride of Lammermoor</li>
<li>Sinisalo: Troll</li>
<li>Smith: Inda</li>
<li>Smith: King&#8217;s Shield</li>
<li>Smith: The Fox</li>
<li>Snyder: Poison Study</li>
<li>Stewart: The Crystal Cave</li>
<li>Stewart: The Hollow Hills</li>
<li>Stewart: The Last Enchantment</li>
<li>Tepper: Sideshow</li>
<li>Tepper: The Gate to Women&#8217;s Country</li>
<li>Thomson: Storyteller</li>
<li>Thurman: Moonshine</li>
<li>Thurman: Nightlife</li>
<li>Traviss: Ally</li>
<li>Traviss: Star Wars Legacy of the Force: Revelation</li>
<li>Viehl: Plague of Memory</li>
<li>Walpole: The Castle of Otranto</li>
<li>Walton: The Sword Is Forged</li>
<li>Wilkins: The Veil of Gold</li>
<li>Williams: Shadowmarch</li>
<li>Williams: Shadowplay</li>
<li>Wooding: Poison</li>
<li>Woolley: Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn</li>
<li>Zelazny: The Chronicles of Amber (Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos)</li>
<li>Zettel: Kingdom of Cages</li>
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