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		<title>Forged In Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grace can heal the flesh of others, but can she heal her own?  Can she soothe the darkness which threatens to eat Marly from the inside out, or will it consume Grace with it? <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/forged-in-grace/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1113&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Less Than Zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Less Than Zero came out, it was held out by the baby boomers as what was "wrong with Generation X", and Generation X decried it as "promoting ugly stereotypes."  Perhaps most disturbing (to me), Ellis has been credited in a way with inventing the Kardashians and Paris Hiltons of the world with his portrayal of wealth and narcissism amongst Hollywood youth. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/less-than-zero/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1090&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/lucky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best-known as the author of <i>The Lovely Bones</i>, Alice Sebold's "Lucky" is her memoir of having been raped as a freshman in college, and the effect that it had on her life. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/lucky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1070&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mermaids in the Basement</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/mermaids-in-the-basement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renata DeChavannes is a slightly overweight screenwriter who has just seen her superstar long-term boyfriend splashed on the cover of a tabloid with a hot young starlet wrapped around him.  Furious, unable to reach him, and in the wake of her mother and stepfather's untimely deaths in a plane crash, Renata storms through her house, ultimately coming upon a note written by her mother.  "If you're reading this, I'm dead," the note begins... <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/mermaids-in-the-basement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1064&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beloved</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/beloved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["She is a friend of my mind.  She gather me, man.  The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.  It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind." <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/beloved/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1048&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trainspotting</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/trainspotting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where Welsh really shines as a writer is that despite the fact that every single character is either a junkie, a criminal, an asshole, or some combination of the three, you can't help but sort of like most of them. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/trainspotting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1033&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Help</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 18:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is pointed out is how susceptible children are to their parents' attitudes - the white children in the novel grow up adoring their nannies, and yet, as soon as they are old enough to understand their parents' ridiculous notions about race, start treating these women exactly the way their parents do. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/the-help/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1015&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Living Biblically</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/the-year-of-living-biblically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 23:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One passage which stuck with me was when he questions why God would need to be praised all of the time - if he is the greatest being in the universe, surely he doesn't have a self-esteem problem which would require constant reassurance. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/the-year-of-living-biblically/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=1008&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water for Elephants</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/water-for-elephants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story begins in the mind of ninety (or ninety-three, he can't remember which) year-old Jacob Jankowski. Not-quite-forgotten in a nursing home, he contents himself with harassing his nurses and complaining about the food. That is, until the circus comes to town. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/water-for-elephants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=289&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Constance Reid marries Lord Clifford Chatterley, she has the somewhat dim view of sexual congress between men and women that the odd affair in college has afforded her. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/lady-chatterleys-lover/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=992&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas Shrugged</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book is based on the not-too-farfetched premise that all of the producers of the world - producers in the sense that these are the hardworking, brilliant, movers and shakers and people of ideas in the world - get fed up with carrying the metaphorical burden of society. "What if Atlas shrugged?" <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/atlas-shrugged/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=124&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelou's writing lends a poetry to her life that makes the terrible things somehow okay, and the good things even better. <i>Caged Bird</i> is stunning portrait of a young black girl's place in not only the south, but the greater world beyond it, and is a VERY worthwhile read. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=214&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love in the Time of Cholera (El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera)</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/love-in-the-time-of-cholera-el-amor-en-los-tiempos-del-colera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Urbino eventually passes away and Florentino, having waited sixty-odd years to be near Fermina Daza, re-enters the picture.  In their old age, they are able to tentatively explore the romance that she denied them in their youth. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/love-in-the-time-of-cholera-el-amor-en-los-tiempos-del-colera/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=247&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World According to Garp</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-world-according-to-garp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["A book feels true when it feels true," she said to him, impatiently. "A book's true when you can say, "Yeah! That's just how damn people behave all the time." Then you know it's true," Jillsy said. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-world-according-to-garp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=947&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/i-hope-they-serve-beer-in-hell/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=212&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Graduate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you.  Aren't you? <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/the-graduate/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=926&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Lunch</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/naked-lunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[" 'Well,' Doc says, 'there was a feller in here this morning.  City feller.  Dressed kinda flashy.  So he's got him a RX for a mason jar of morphine....Kinda funny looking prescription writ out on toilet paper....And I told him straight out: "Mister, I suspect you to be a dope fiend." ' <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/naked-lunch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=914&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toru learns one day that an elderly acquaintance of theirs, Mr. Honda, has passed away and left a remembrance for him.  Delivering the package from Mr. Honda is a Lieutenant Mamiya, a prisoner of war during WW2 who was tortured by the Soviets.  Lieutenant Mamiya tells Toru a fascinating story about how he came to know Mr. Honda, and gives him cryptic advice:  When the time comes, go down into the deepest well and stay there. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=905&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Gods</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/american-gods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So none of this is happening.  Such things could not occur.  Never a word of it is literally true.  Even so, the next thing that happened, happened like this: <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/american-gods/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=875&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to Live / The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I go to sleep, I sleep on the side of the bed my mother used to sleep on. Sometimes, at dawn, I wake up and find myself in the pose my mother died in — lying on her side, her arm reaching from under her head as though she were doing the sidestroke in a pool, the pills she had swallowed weighing her down like so many pebbles in her pockets. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/reasons-to-live-the-collected-stories-of-amy-hempel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=171&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Memory Keeper&#8217;s Daughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a snowstorm in late 1964, Dr. David Henry and his wife rush to his small clinic in the middle of the night to give birth to their first child.  The delivery unexpectedly produces boy / girl twins, and David immediately recognizes the signs of Down's Syndrome in the little girl. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-memory-keepers-daughter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=253&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl With a Pearl Earring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Van Ruijevn takes an instant interest in Griet and sexually harasses her.  She narrowly escapes and vows to avoid him in the future, but Van Ruijevn demands that Johannes paint the girl for him, using the commissioned portrait as a ruse to further intimidate Griet.  Vermeer can hardly refuse, as his livelihood depends on giving the patrons of the arts what they desire.  To make matters yet more uncomfortable, Johannes has decided that Griet should wear his wife's beautiful pearl earrings when she sits for him. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/girl-with-a-pearl-earring/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=196&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Thief</title>
		<link>http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/the-book-thief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death explains that there are certain humans that he takes special notice of, and that he first saw Liesel when he came for her brother's soul and witnessed her stealing her first book.  Dubbing her "The Book Thief", Death keeps an eye on her throughout her life as he comes for other people that she is close to. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/the-book-thief/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=839&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High Fidelity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a device which has been employed countless times in such stories, Rob decides to revisit each of the women who made the list of his top five breakups and discuss the reasons that it ended with each of them.  The results are fairly enlightening, and Rob begins to rediscover his own autonomy and the ambition he had when he was just himself.  He begins to open up to the potential friendships in his life, and hate himself a little less.  Using a breakup as a means to self-discovery is certainly not a ground-breaking setup for a story, but this one is witty, endearing, and well-done.   <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/high-fidelity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=206&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life of Pi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miz Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pi tells his story to the authorities (who are looking to understand why the ship sunk), but they don't believe a word of it.  Undaunted, Pi makes up a second story; this one much more believable including his mother, a ship's cook, and a sailor substituted for the animals, and asks which they prefer.  They prefer the story as told the first time (although they still do not believe it), and Pi remarks that it is much the same way with God - that those who choose not to believe miss out on the better story. <a href="http://mizparker.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/life-of-pi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mizparker.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15303249&#038;post=811&#038;subd=mizparker&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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