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		<title>Tuesday Teaser</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading (via, for me, fellow Australian book reviewer Booklover). To play along: Grab your current read, open to a random page and share a teaser two sentences long from somewhere on that page. No spoilers!
Iain M. Banks. Use of Weapons, pg 77 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1719&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free short story: Silent Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short story of mine is out in the current issue of Future Fire. You can download the whole issue, or read my story, Silent Song, for free online here. It&#8217;s a feminist science fiction themed issue, with stories that &#8220;focus on sex and gender, on women’s experiences and the forces that shape their lives&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1753&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers: Oz edition &#8212; and free books</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/02/07/happy-links-for-readers-and-writers-oz-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aurealis Awards winners for 2009 were announced a few weeks ago (oh yes, always up-to-date news on this site): lots of Australian SF/F books to add to your reading list if you hadn&#8217;t got to them yet, and it&#8217;s always interesting to read the judges&#8217; comments on the almost-winners.
The February Bullsheet and other Australian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1713&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mind me. This is a page flipper test</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/02/05/dont-mind-me-this-is-a-page-flipper-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just trying out different &#8220;page flipper&#8221; (look inside a book) type widget thingos. You can try them out yourself by taking a look (more than 100 pages of my upcoming genre fiction book here for you to read) but I&#8217;m really just experimenting for my own purposes.
Let&#8217;s start with Scribd.
That worked well, very easy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1736&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: The Magicians by Lev Grossman</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/02/02/1680/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[literary fantasy]]></category>
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Title: The Magicians
Author: Lev Grossman
Year of publication: 2009
Genre: Fantasy &#8212; Literary
My rating: 4.5 stars or A-
Quentin Coldwater is on his way to his college admissions interview. He thinks he&#8217;s off to Princeton. He&#8217;s not happy, though, despite having &#8220;painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness&#8221; &#8212; he sees that his life is all mapped out, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1680&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/01/31/happy-links-for-readers-and-writers-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[eBooksale this weekend: 50% off on all titles purchased on AllRomanceeBooks.com and OmniLit.com if you use the code SBTBARe1. My romantic fantasy book, The Frog Prince&#8217;s Daughters, is usually only $4, but you can try it for $2 if you buy it today.
The big news in ebook world is of course the release of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1699&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/01/26/the-name-of-the-wind-by-patrick-rothfuss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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Title: The Name of the Wind
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Year of publication: 2008
Genre: Fantasy &#8212; Noir Epic
My rating: 3.5 stars or B+
This book has been on my reading pile for almost two years: I&#8217;ve left it alone for a long, long time and to explain why, I&#8217;m going to quote the back cover.
&#8216;I have stolen princesses back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1674&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost a year old, but it&#8217;s a bloody good analysis of what&#8217;s going on with the adoption of ebooks, from someone who was there the first time round.
And Amazon/Kindle offer a 70% royalty split for authors. Also, they&#8217;re now allowing international publishers onto the Kindle store.
And to continue the ebook theme, Smashwords, some months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1692&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt</title>
		<link>http://wendypalmer.com.au/2010/01/19/court-of-the-air-by-stephen-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Title: Court of the Air
Author: Stephen Hunt
Year of publication: 2007
Genre: Fantasy &#8212; Steampunk-ish
My rating: DNF
This is the first victim of my new stringent abandon-book policy. The plot and the first few pages sounded interested: we meet Molly, an orphan at the workhouse, thrown out of her latest near-slavery job and dreading what the Beadle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1670&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy links for readers and writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An SMH opinion piece in love with the Kindle. Some lively comments&#8230;including the point that the Kindle is not the only e-reader out there. But the Kindle&#8217;s ease of use is hard to beat.
You know how women are supposed to go nuts for handbags and shoes? Well, okay, I have a little thing for handbags, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wendypalmer.com.au&blog=2734812&post=1658&subd=wendypalmer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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