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		<title>Fall Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been going to the library regularly and have read quite a few books. I&#8217;m listing them here so I can remember.
Any &#38; Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout, Liars and Saints by Malie Meloy, Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another one for the coincidence club</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The phrase &#8220;Thrilla in Manila.&#8221; A clue spotted last week in the NY Times crossword. (The answer was &#8220;rematch.&#8221;) Then a friend of mine used the phrase Monday evening. Then on Tuesday I read it in a novel (&#8220;John the Revelator&#8221; by Peter Murphy.)
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		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/12/02/another-one-for-the-coincidence-club/</link>
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		<title>Bleak House finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a long haul, over 900 pages, but a good read. I can&#8217;t say much without doing &#8220;spoilers.&#8221; Lots of great characters. Esther Summerson, the Jellybys, Harold Skimpole, Mr. Guppy, Krook, Miss Flite, Sir and Lady Dedlock, Tulkinghorn, Jo, Mr. George, and so many more.
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		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/08/15/bleak-house-finished/</link>
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		<title>Bleak House II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[300 pages in, Dickens, as Virginia Woolf observed, keeps piling more characters on the fire. It&#8217;s a blazing bonfire by now with several shadowy characters up to something. It&#8217;s not exactly clear what their up to, but it&#8217;s clear that they are revolving, ever closer, to the protracted Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit. Mr. Tulkinghorn, Mr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/28/bleak-house-cont/</link>
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		<title>Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Social Security Administration keeps a list of the most popular given name by year. From 1909 to 1946 the most popular female name was Mary. Mary was overthrown by Linda from 1947 until 1954 and then Mary regained her supremacy until 1962 when Lisa ruled until1971. Then Jennifer took over until 1984 when she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/23/names/</link>
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		<title>Bleak House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting started on another Dickens. This time starting with chapter 3, we&#8217;ve got a female narrator. There&#8217;s a protracted law suit going on, and most of the main characters are beneficiaries of one of the litagants, John Jarndyce. There&#8217;s our narrator, Esther, as well as two distant cousins, Ada and Richard. And then there&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/21/bleak-house/</link>
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		<title>Hard Times by Charles Dickens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another excellent book by Dickens filled with great characters and exciting drama.
The tale is set in Coketown, a made-up manufacturing town in the north of England. Dickens uses animal metaphors to great effect, describing machines as melancholy elephants constantly nodding their heads, and the smoke from the factory chimneys as giant snakes.
The characters include Thomas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/06/18/hard-times-by-charles-dickens/</link>
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		<title>Jeopardy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Final Jeopardy answer today was &#8220;Who is Robert Burns?&#8221; The category was &#8220;Celebrations.&#8221; The question was &#8220;Homecoming Scotland is a year-long celebration of this man&#8217;s 250th birthday on Jan. 25, 2009.&#8221;
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		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2009/03/06/jeopardy/</link>
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		<title>Silas Marner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) is a great novel. I should have read it when it was assigned in high school, but like youth, literature is wasted on the young.

In a nutshell, the plot describes Silas, the solitary weaver, and how he came to adopt an orphaned infant, and how that brought him out of his solitude to join in the life of the community...]]></description>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2008/12/20/silas-marner/</link>
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		<title>PT Forsyth on Walter Scott and Robert Burns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was lifted in its entirty from this accidently discovered bog

During March 1878, Forsyth gave a lecture on the Scottish poet, Robert Burns, a lecture he repeated the following year to a well-attended audience in the Town Hall, Cottingley. Both were recorded in the Shipley and Saltaire Times. In the course of his lecture, Forsyth offered the following remarks...]]></description>
		<link>http://netnik.com/wordpress/2008/12/17/pt-forsyth-on-walter-scott-and-robert-burns/</link>
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