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		<title>Gimmick non-fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fond of a certain type of usually-humour writing which I catagorise as &#8216;gimmick non-fiction&#8217;, or maybe a little more generously, &#8216;quest memoirs&#8217; &#8212; where someone, usually a young(ish) man, sets out on some oddball undertaking often involving physical discomfort, some travel, and/or embarrassment and other social difficulties, and often for a period of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=2085&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers (Perth edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe this has whipped around again already: the Perth Writers Festival 2010 is on the long weekend at the end of February. The full programme comes out at the end of January. Perth-based Indiebooks Online is donating portions of its sales over the next two weeks (starting, however, last week) to victims of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1645&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Amazon pick my books&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my reading resolutions was to get over my aversion to be marketed to, and instead actively help Amazon market to me, in the hope of improving my book selections. I started by rating my favourite books over the last few years of reading, and then checked to see what Amazon had for me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1600&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My reading resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the time of year to make resolutions. 2009 was the year I made a conscious decision that I would stop reading books I wasn&#8217;t enjoying, because of the opportunity cost of then not being able to read books I would enjoy more. Despite this, I still ended up persevering through books I shouldn&#8217;t have, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1573&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite books of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with last year, these are my favourite books of my personal reading year, regardless of publication date. First, far and away, is The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. I adored this book way back in January and nothing came close to knocking it off its first-place perch all year. Then there was The Glass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1549&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Rankin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Rankin is an author in the same vein as Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and Jasper Fforde (the Friday Next series), ie he is a British fantasy humourist. He seems to be lower-key than those other guys (not sure why I can&#8217;t think of any female British fantasy humourists off-hand), and indeed, while I feel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=746&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Favourites of the year</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2008/12/09/favourites-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is review day, but since it&#8217;s the list time of year and I&#8217;m off on holiday for a few weeks, I thought I&#8217;d list my favourite fiction and non-fiction reads for this year (my personal reading year, not publication year). Firstly, there was a cluster of world war books. These were character-driven stories of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=402&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stanza for the iPhone or iPod Touch: affordable ebook reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a big supporter of the somewhat shaky ebook revolution (as you might expect, given my books are primarily electronic, with the printed version available as an afterthought). However, up until now I did not own any ebook reader device. One, they’re not widely available in Australia (we’re not getting the Kindle any time soon, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=295&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nation by Terry Pratchett</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t had a chance to read this yet, but I&#8217;m being lazy with my reviews this week, and linking to The Guardian&#8216;s review, here. Sounds excellent. My real reason for posting on it this week is because of the recent talk given by pTerry at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, in which he discusses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=219&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to Connie Willis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who I have previously lauded as one of my favourite authors, and who has just won yet another Hugo for her novella All Seated on the Ground. You can read the full text here, as provided by the original publisher, Asimov&#8217;s. I note she is STILL working on All-Clear, as has been the case for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=196&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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