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		<title>In defense of the humble audiobook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was incapable of actually reading Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s The Road, and yet I really very much wanted to.  I just could not get into this book.  I tried.  I gave up.  I tried again.  I gave up again.  I know that this is criminal to admit, because the whole world loved reading this book.  But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/07/28/in-defense-of-the-humble-audiobook/</link>
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		<title>A Thousand Acres: not trashy enough for me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[East of Eden was terrific, the kind of epic tale that took me longer to read than I would like, but the kind that I don&#8217;t think I will soon forget.  This book also, and notably, featured the most despicable fictional character I can remember having read.  I am semi-interested now in reading more Steinbeck, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/07/27/a-thousand-acres-not-trashy-enough-for-me/</link>
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		<title>In which I announce my (tentative) almighty reading plan, which might be stupid, or might be great.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am tentatively considering reading every finalist or winning Pulitzer novel.  Looking over the list I realized I&#8217;ve already read approximately 20%, and there is little that I like more than an ambitious reading goal.  Butler&#8217;s book of short stories (see below) won in 1993.  I really loved this book (it is simultaneously so serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/07/13/in-which-i-announce-my-tentative-almighty-reading-plan-which-might-be-stupid-or-might-be-great/</link>
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		<title>In which I return.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a little heart-broken to be back from Panama.  It was lovely &#38; hot.  I got a lot of work done.  I worked a lot.  It feels good to get up very early (when the roosters qui-qui-ri-qui) and walk in the dark to the place where I work, giving buenas to the folks that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/07/01/in-which-i-return/</link>
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		<title>On summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave Woodcuts of Women by Dagoberto Gilb my undivided attention the last two days.  I&#8217;m glad I did.  Gilb is a superb writer. From page 128 of his story &#8220;Bottoms,&#8221; a paragraph that makes me think of the here &#38; the now, in what seems to be the middle of Pittsburgh summer already: Though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/06/02/on-summer/</link>
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		<title>I confess:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Dagoberto Gilb&#8217;s Magic of Blood (largely enjoyable). This week, I caved&#8211;the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I confess to having loved this). I leave for Panama in a week so from here on out for the next month I think I will be light-reading/magazine reading.   Long weekend reading will involve Gilb&#8217;s Woodcuts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/05/28/i-confess/</link>
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		<title>On things I have always meant to read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I finished Lonesome Dove I felt a little anxious, because what do you follow that up with?  I was partly relieved I didn&#8217;t have to lug it around anymore (and have people think I was reading the Bible on the bus, yech), but for the most part I was anxious. I followed it up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/05/18/on-things-i-have-always-meant-to-read/</link>
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		<title>Take me to the desert!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t stop talking about/thinking about/reading Lonesome Dove.  I have always been daunted by its size, but I shouldn&#8217;t have been&#8211;the characters are immediately engaging and the plot is literally thrilling.  I should have read this years ago.  It might be my favorite book of 2010 (this is premature, surely, as it&#8217;s only May, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/05/10/take-me-to-the-desert/</link>
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		<title>past writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first published article (which appeared in volume 1 of the Franklin News on April 26th, 1993): Alligators I wrote this article on an island called Kiawah.  It is about alligators. Alligators live in and near water.  Their babies are born out of leathery eggs and mostly they eat and sleep and they look like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/05/03/past-writing/</link>
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		<title>My bookmarks, or wtf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I infrequently re-read books, but last night I found myself re-reading Carolyn Forche&#8217;s The Country Between Us.  Which is, of course, perfect.  I moved yesterday and my entire body hurts&#8211;I feel like I have been lifting weights for three weeks.  My thighs are bruised from balancing heavy boxes atop them and I really just wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://truespies.org/bookaweekgeek/2010/05/01/my-bookmarks-or-wtf/</link>
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