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		<title>The Man With Two Left Feet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Man with Two Left Feet&#8221; is the title story of a collection of early Wodehouse tales. The overall quality of the collection is lower than is usually for Pelham Grenville but a few are quite excellent. If you haven&#8217;t read &#8220;The Mixer&#8221; or &#8220;The Mixer II&#8221; then you simply must. Likewise, &#8220;Extricating Young Gussie&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/02/09/the-man-with-two-left-feet/</link>
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		<title>Slump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in a bit of a reading slump the last week and a half. I started Stranger in a Strange Land and Pascal&#8217;s Pensees around the same time. Pascal has been quite interesting and very good reading but slow going. Pensees is fragmentary and incomplete and so cannot be read quickly or with less than full attention. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/02/08/slump/</link>
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		<title>I thought we already had that&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school&#8217;s aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/02/07/i-thought-we-already-had-that/</link>
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		<title>Goodies for Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing a little more culling of my book shelves. Duplicates for sale here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/29/goodies-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>Friday Nights with the Church Fathers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve started a new book group on Friday nights. Our initial plan is to read the 22 &#8220;books&#8221; of St Augustine&#8217;s City of God over the course of 22 weeks. Last night Brent, Aimee, Mindi, Jared, and I all had spaghetti followed by discussion of book one. Aimee emphasized the significance of Augustine&#8217;s view of women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/28/friday-nights-with-the-church-fathers/</link>
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		<title>Something Wicked this Way Comes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Ray Bradbury&#8217;s Something Wicked This Way Comes (this was only the third Bradbury for me). It took me a while to get into it. The &#8220;weird&#8221; level was pretty high and it moved slowly. Eventually ( by about the last third of the book) it began to pay off. Bradbury&#8217;s vision is uncomfortable but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/27/something-wicked-this-way-comes/</link>
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		<title>Distracted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a bit scattered the last few days. The puppy might have something to do with my state of mind. He&#8217;s been pretty good, calm and eager to please, but keeps waking us up early. I hope I&#8217;m not an entirely lazy person and that I really do need the sleep I feel like I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/25/distracted/</link>
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		<title>Puppy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite growing up with a wide variety of pets (dogs, cats, bunnies, horses, etc.), as an adult I haven&#8217;t been interested in having any animals around. I like neatness, order, and pleasant smells. Also, two little boys require plenty of time, energy, and love and I haven&#8217;t felt up to taking on more responsibility. Still, Alex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/22/puppy/</link>
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		<title>Seventh Son</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished Orson Scott Card&#8217;s Seventh Son yesterday and was relieved to discover today (when I could access Wikipedia) that it was only the first of a series. It was so unsatisfying as a stand-alone book that I suspected it had to be. Set in an alternate history of America that includes magical abilities and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/19/seventh-son/</link>
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		<title>Wicked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t watch the movie &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; until I was in my 20s. I read the book some years later. Neither of them are terribly good fantasy. I find Baum&#8217;s vision of Oz flat, cheap, and empty. The tale lacks truth, beauty, and goodness. Gregory Maguire&#8217;s reworking of Oz in Wicked is more interesting and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.200books.com/2012/01/18/wicked/</link>
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