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		<title>Musings on the self-help industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Book review: A Tapestry of Spells by Lynn Kurland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: A Tapestry of Spells Author: Lynn Kurland Year of publication: 2010 Genre: Fantasy My rating: 2.5 stars or D This is the first failure of my new reading policy: it sailed past my 50-page test, but with about 100 pages to go, I was weighing up whether to bother finishing it. I did, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1975&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Resistance by Owen Sheers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 01:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Resistance Author: Owen Sheers Year of publication: 2007 Genre: Literary alternate history My rating: 4 stars or B Just days after news of the invasion came crackling through on Maggie&#8217;s wireless&#8230;the men, lit by a hunter&#8217;s moon, met at William&#8217;s milking shed and slipped out of the valley. Moving in single file they walked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1963&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 01:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Wicked Gentlemen Author: Ginn Hale Year of publication: 2007 Genre: Steampunk romance My rating: 4.5 stars or A- I pick my way through relatively little-known books in the hope of finding gems like this one. Wicked Gentlemen is two novellas that work as one. In the first, Mr Sykes and the Firefly, we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1949&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: White Star by Beth Vaughan</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/05/11/book-review-white-star-by-beth-vaughan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 01:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: White Star Author: Beth Vaughan Year of publication: 2009 Genre: Fantasy romance My rating: 3 stars or C- Orrin is a man with a dark past. His evil overlady the Baroness is dead and he must surrender himself to save his men. Lucky for him, they recently took captive Lady High Priestess Evelyn, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1946&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Perdido Street Station by China Mieville</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/04/20/perdido-street-station-by-china-mieville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Perdido Street Station Author: China Miéville Year of publication: 2000 Genre: Mixed &#8212; SF Fantasy Horror My rating: 4.5 stars or A- New Crobuzon is a sprawling, messy, dark city in which, since I only recently finished reading Peter Ackroyd&#8217;s London, I couldn&#8217;t help but see the echoes of that great metropolis during the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1927&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mini book reviews: my YA reading binge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t read a lot of young adult fiction, but I don&#8217;t dismiss it out of hand either, since I find it tends to pay more attention to the elements I like most in my reading (well-developed characters, humour, witty dialogue, romantic sub-plot and/or attention paid to relationships, some darkness but generally happy outcomes), which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1897&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Soulless by Gail Carriger</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/04/06/book-review-soulless-by-gail-carriger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Soulless Author: Gail Carriger Year of publication: 2009 Genre: Mixed &#8212; Steampunk paranormal romantic comedy My rating: 4 stars or B+ Given it features both vampires (boo!) and werewolves (slightly smaller boo!), and is the first in a new series (biggest boo of all!), it took a bit for Soulless to make it on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1888&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: The Heroines by Eileen Favorite</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: The Heroines Author: Eileen Favorite Year of publication: 2008 Genre: Fantasy &#8212; Literary My rating: 3 stars or C Penny&#8217;s mother runs an isolated boarding house with a difference&#8230;amid the usual run-of-the-mill guests, the occasional heroine from literature will show up, beautiful and distraught and needing a break from her narrative. They don&#8217;t know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&#038;blog=2734812&#038;post=1832&#038;subd=wendypalmer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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