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    <title>Book Club books read over the term of the 3rd Wed bookclub</title>
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    <published>2012-10-24T20:38:20Z</published>
    <updated>2012-10-24T20:40:26Z</updated>

    <summary>(Dates are publication dates, not the dates read) A Contract With God Will Eisner 2006 A Fine Balance (Oprah&apos;s Book Club) Rohinton Mistry 2001 A...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>(Dates are publication dates, not the dates read)<br />
A Contract With God	Will Eisner	2006<br />
A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)	Rohinton Mistry	2001<br />
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	1990<br />
An Instance of the Fingerpost: A Novel	Iain Pears	2000<br />
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: a Novel	Lorna Landvik	2005<br />
Appetite for Life	Noel Riley Fitch	1999<br />
Bel Canto (P.S.)	Ann Patchett	2005<br />
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before	Tony Horwitz	2002<br />
Brick Lane: A Novel	Monica Ali	2004<br />
Children of God Go Bowling	Shannon Olson	2005<br />
Clapton: The Autobiography	Eric Clapton	2008<br />
DEATH COMES TO THE ARCHBISHOP	Willa Cather	1990<br />
Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson	William Swanson	2007<br />
Dreams from My Father	Barack Obama	2004<br />
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire	Amanda Foreman	2001<br />
Getting Mother's Body: A Novel	Suzan-Lori Parks	2004<br />
Girl with a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	2000<br />
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri	2000<br />
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)	Charlotte Brontë	2006<br />
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories	Ben Katchor	1996<br />
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District	Ben Katchor	2003<br />
KITE RUNNER	KHALE HOSSEINI	2003<br />
Life of Pi : A Novel	Yann Martel	2002<br />
Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/Boxed	Art Spiegelman	1993<br />
Maus a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History	Art Spiegelman	1986<br />
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)	Art Spiegelman	1992<br />
Midnight's Children: A Novel	Salman Rushdie	2006<br />
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban - A Young Woman's Story	Latifa	2003<br />
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder	Kent Nerburn	2002<br />
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women	Geraldine Brooks	1995<br />
Novena for Murder (A Sister Mary Helen Mystery)	Carol Anne O'Marie	2005<br />
Orlando: A Biography (Wordsworth Classics)	Virginia Woolf	1999<br />
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	2004<br />
Paradise (Oprah's Book Club)	Toni Morrison	1999<br />
Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America	Stephen G. Bloom	2001<br />
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books	Azar Nafisi	2003<br />
Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)	Amy Tan	2006<br />
Skipping Christmas	John Grisham	2004<br />
Sor Juana's Second Dream: A Novel	Alicia Gaspar De Alba	1999<br />
The Bondwoman's Narrative (Special Facsimile Edition)	Hannah Crafts	2003<br />
The Bonesetter's Daughter (Ballantine Reader's Circle)	Amy Tan	2003<br />
The Color of Water	James McBride	1996<br />
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the DecadesBefore Roe v. Wade	Ann Fessler	2007<br />
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle)	Mary Ann Shaffer	2009<br />
The Heartsong of Charging Elk: A Novel	James Welch	2001<br />
The Human Stain: A Novel	Philip Roth	2001<br />
The Librarian	Larry Beinhart	2004<br />
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom	Slavomir Rawicz	2006<br />
The Mapmaker's Wife	Robert Whitaker	2005<br />
The Namesake	Jhumpa Lahiri	2006<br />
The Outlander: A Novel (P.S.)	Gil Adamson	2009<br />
The Piano Tuner: A Novel	Daniel Mason	2003<br />
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)	Simon Winchester	2005<br />
The Quitter	Harvey Pekar	2006<br />
The Rabbi's Cat	Joann Sfar	2007<br />
The Rabbi's Cat 2	Joann Sfar	2008<br />
The Seven Daughters of Eve	Bryan Sykes	2002<br />
The Shipping News	Proulx E. Annie	1994<br />
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World	David Abram	1997<br />
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down	Anne Fadiman	1998<br />
The Virgin Blue	Tracy Chevalier	2003<br />
The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)	Kenneth Grahame	2006<br />
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time	Greg Mortenson	2007<br />
Title	Author	Date<br />
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival	Velma Wallis	2004<br />
Ultraviolet Sky	Alma Luz Villanueva	1988<br />
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West	Stephen Ambrose	1997<br />
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy	Carlos Eire	2003<br />
Water for Elephants: A Novel	Sara Gruen	2007<br />
When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time To Go Home	Bombeck	1991<br />
You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You	Molly Ivins	1999<br />
Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Classics)	Raymond Queneau	2001<br />
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    <title>2010 January - June</title>
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    <published>2010-06-19T00:58:33Z</published>
    <updated>2010-06-19T01:02:41Z</updated>

    <summary>I&apos;ll need some help piecing these titles into the calendar. As I recall we got a little feisty and skipped around some. January at Sofitel...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I'll need some help piecing these titles into the calendar. As I recall we got a little feisty and skipped around some.<br />
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January                at Sofitel<br />
February                at Sofitel<br />
March                 at Sofitel<br />
April  -M Butterfly live at the Guthrie Theatre<br />
May         The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo                - at Sofitel<br />
June - A Mercy / Toni Morrison / at Monte Carlo in Minneapolis </p>]]>
        
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    <title>Book Club&apos;s new blog</title>
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    <published>2010-06-19T00:49:13Z</published>
    <updated>2010-06-19T00:51:05Z</updated>

    <summary>Hey Book Club friends, the Book Club aspect of Tambien is moving to its own Book Club blog home....</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Hey Book Club friends, the Book Club aspect of Tambien is moving to its own <a href="http://blog.lib.umn.edu/s-gang/bookclub/">Book Club blog home</a>.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Book Club 2010 </title>
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    <published>2010-06-18T15:03:17Z</published>
    <updated>2010-06-18T15:15:20Z</updated>

    <summary>It&#8217;s time for a new round of books. We polished off the last six months gourmet style, switching in June from a stint at Sofitel...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<div style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s time for a new round of books.

We polished off the last six months gourmet style, switching in June from a stint at Sofitel to an evening at the Monte Carlo (a night spent without discussing Toni Morrison&#8217;s A Mercy in any way, shape or form. Sorry, Toni. The wings and the chocolate cake made it impossible to concentrate)

So, to begin the discussion of our next list of titles is 

<strong>Sarah</strong>:

the next <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stieg-Larsson/e/B001J95ACO/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1276873794&sr=1-2-ent">Stieg Larsson</a> book (I just finished #3, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Kicked-Hornets-Nest/dp/030726999X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1">The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#8217;s Nest</a>); #2 is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Played-Fire-Vintage/dp/030745455X/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3">The Girl Who Played with Fire</a>

Tracy Chevalier&#8217;s new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Remarkable-Creatures-Tracy-Chevalier/dp/0525951458/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276873735&sr=1-1">Remarkable Creatures</a> - though I don&#8217;t think it is out in paperback yet.

Hilary Mantel&#8217;s new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Hall-Novel-Booker-Prize/dp/0805080686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276873694&sr=1-1">Wolf Hall</a> - won the Booker prize, though also not in paperback.

Jhumpa Lahiri&#8217;s book &#8220;Unaccustomed Earth&#8221; - I just finished this, it was amazing.</div>
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    <title>Newfoundland Serendipity</title>
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    <published>2009-09-21T01:12:55Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-21T03:25:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Netflix rental this weekend: Shipping News Twitter entry today from John Quincy Adams: JQAdams_MHSToday&apos;s map post at http://is.gd/2qsII contains links to the long diary entries...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.netflix.com">Netflix </a>rental this weekend: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipping_News">Shipping News</a></p>

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter </a>entry today from John Quincy Adams: <br />
JQAdams_<a href="http://is.gd/2qsII">MHSToday's map post</a> at <a href="http://is.gd/2qsII">http://is.gd/2qsII</a> contains links to the long diary entries with a more detailed account of the day's events.</p>

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Serendipity: Watched the DVD last night and saw the Adams Twitter entry this evening. Book Club read the book <a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=TRADE%20PAPER:USED:0671510053:8.00&page=excerpt">Shipping News</a> some time before June 2004. </p>

<p>I don't "hear" E. Annie Proulx's writing voice from <a href="http://www.wordplay.com/wordplay/books/0671510053.html">Shipping News</a> in the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120824/">movie version</a> but I love seeing the images of Newfoundland. I'd forgotten that the delightful and versatile Dame Judith Dench appears in the film.  Adams' journal entries are appearing on Twitter because of their brief number of words, the Massachusetts Historical Society thought it was a good way to get out his words. This entry links to a map that includes Newfoundland. John Quincy Adams. </p>

<p>Here's what the page reads today: <br />
<blockquote>Map of daily progress for sailing voyage from Charlestown, Massachusetts to St. Petersburg, Russia. <br />
See the Twitter feed at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/JQAdams_MHS">http://www.twitter.com/JQAdams_MHS</a>  <br />
62,162 views - Public  Created on Aug 19 - Updated 14 hours ago</blockquote></p>]]>
        
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    <title>Book Club Fall 2009</title>
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    <published>2009-08-20T15:24:02Z</published>
    <updated>2009-09-19T21:40:53Z</updated>

    <summary> Here are the books for the next three months (and December will be the book exchange party) 16th September - at Susan&apos;s - The...</summary>
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Here are the books for the next three months (and December will be the book exchange party)

<p><strong>16th  September</strong> - at Susan's - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Outlander-Novel-P-S-Gil-Adamson/dp/0061491349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250782903&sr=1-1">The Outlander by </a>Gil Adamson<br />
<strong>21st October</strong> - at Roberta's - The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-True-Story-Freedom/dp/1592289444/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250782936&sr=1-2">Long Walk:  The  True Story of a Trek</a> to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz - also in MNCAT under briefer title Long Walk -</p>

<p><strong>18th November</strong> <br />
 at Anne's - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shack-William-P-Young/dp/0964729237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250783017&sr=8-1">The Shack</a> by William P. Young or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Grows-Brooklyn-P-S/dp/0061120073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250783061&sr=1-1">A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</a> by Betty Smith</p>

<p><strong>Other Suggestions:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Susan</strong><br />
  The Craftsman by  Richard Sennett<br />
  Those Who Save Us by  Jenna Blum<br />
  Jennifer Johnson is  Sick of Being Single by  Heather  Mcelhatton<br />
  Run by Ann Patchett</p>

<p><strong>Roberta</strong><br />
  The Road From  Coorain by Jill Kerr Conway<br />
  The Plague of Doves  by Louise Erdrich<br />
  The Rise and Fall of  Alexandria by  Justin Pollard</p>

<p><strong>Kirsten</strong><br />
Something by A. J.  Jacobs:<br />
--The Year of Living  Biblically<br />
--The Know-it-all<br />
--The Guinea <br />
Pig  Diaries</p>

<p><strong>Anne</strong><br />
  The Time Traveler's  Wife by Audrey Niffenegger<br />
  Anything by  Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and others)<br />
  Breakfast of  Champions by Kurt Vonnegut<br />
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    <title>Atonement</title>
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    <published>2009-08-16T20:49:05Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-16T20:52:24Z</updated>

    <summary>Another book I want to read! I watched the movie on DVD today and was fascinated by the story, the scenes, the characters and the...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Another book I want to read! I watched the movie on DVD today and was fascinated by the story, the scenes, the characters and the way the story is constructed. It's so well done; I look forward to reading</p>

<p>Ian McEwan's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Atonement-Ian-McEwan/dp/0307387151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250455607&sr=1-1">Atonement</a></p>]]>
        
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    <title>Kind friend</title>
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    <published>2009-08-08T20:04:32Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-08T20:07:39Z</updated>

    <summary>Here&apos;s a thank you shout out to a friend who is unfailingly supportive and nonjudgmental! You made my day......</summary>
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    <title>August book club choice</title>
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    <published>2009-08-05T20:32:02Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-05T20:35:30Z</updated>

    <summary>For all of you avid book club blog readers (and lurkers): August is at Roberta&apos;s and we&apos;re reading: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>For all of you avid book club blog readers (and lurkers):</p>

<p>August is at Roberta's and we're reading:<br />
<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/guernsey/"><br />
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</a></p>

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    <title>Books I Want to Read</title>
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    <published>2009-08-05T20:06:24Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-16T20:48:33Z</updated>

    <summary> The Craftsman (Paperback) by Prof. Richard Sennett This one sounds dry but the Amazon preview doesn&apos;t come across that way. I&apos;m a librarian but...</summary>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Craftsman-Prof-Richard-Sennett/dp/0300151195/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249756739&sr=1-1">The Craftsman</a> (Paperback)
by Prof. Richard Sennett

<p>This one sounds dry but the Amazon preview doesn't come across that way. I'm a librarian but also an amateur artist and love to work with my hands. I like to do hand building in clay the best.  To have someone from academe finding value in working with one's hands is relatively rare, So right now this book is at the top of my list.</p>

<p>And along the same lines, <br />
   Crawford, Matthew B. :  <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/1594202230/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249933794&sr=8-1">Shop class as soulcraft : an inquiry into the value of work</a></strong> /    New York : Penguin Press, 2009.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Olive-Kitteridge-Fiction-Elizabeth-Strout/dp/0812971833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249502621&sr=8-1">Olive Kitteridge</a> by Elizabeth Strout<br />
Recommended by a friend and I'm curious to find out why she liked this so much. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780061491344?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=facebook_fans&utm_content=Outlander">The Outlander</a> by Gil Adamson <br />
Because I love to read about women in the west at the turn of the century. And some of my family members live in Montana, where some of the story takes place.</p>

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<entry>
    <title>July Book Club</title>
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    <published>2009-07-01T19:31:57Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-29T20:21:41Z</updated>

    <summary>repeated here in the new blog format, for your convenience and consideration! July Book Club decision request From Annie: We decided tonight not to decide...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<div style="text-align: left;">repeated here in the new blog format, for your convenience and consideration!

<h3>July Book Club decision request</h3>

<p>From Annie:</p>

<p>We decided tonight not to decide for July.</p>

<p>These are Meggin's suggestions:<br>
- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Falling-Through-Earth-Danielle-Trussoni/dp/0312426569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245337633&amp;sr=1-1">Falling through the Earth </a>by Danielle Trussoni<br>

<p>- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tortilla-Curtain-T-Coraghessan-Boyle/dp/014023828X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245337658&amp;sr=1-1">Tortilla Curtain </a>by T.C. Boyle<br><br />
- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Road-Movie-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307454789/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245337686&amp;sr=1-1">Revolutionary Road</a> by Richard Yates (really depressing, but good)</p></p>

<p>Roberta suggested <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Wife-Novel-Times-Notable/dp/0812975405/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245337588&amp;sr=1-1">American Wife</a> by Curtis Sittenfeld</p>

<p>Sarah suggested Jhumpa Lahiri's latest - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unaccustomed-Earth-Stories-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307278255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245337539&amp;sr=1-1">Unaccustomed Earth: Stories</a> (Sarah, correct me if I'm wrong)</p>

<p>I have <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao/dp/1594483299/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245337506&amp;sr=8-1">The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</a> by Junot Diaz on my to-be-read-shelf right now.</p>

<p>Or, if you prefer, Susan suggested that everyone read what they like and report in for the July meeting.</p>

<p>I kind of like that idea.</p>

<p>Y'all ok with it?</p></div>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Summer on East Bank</title>
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    <published>2009-06-27T18:01:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-29T20:46:17Z</updated>

    <summary>&gt;...</summary>
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<entry>
    <title>Friday night book discoveries</title>
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    <published>2009-06-27T02:44:26Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-29T20:49:55Z</updated>

    <summary>First, a trip to the local discount book place unearthed these delights: --Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>First, a trip to the local discount book place unearthed these delights:</p>

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--<strong>Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies</strong> by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly <br />
--<strong>Strange Stories for Strange Kids</strong> (Little Lit, Book 2) by Art Spiegelman</p>

<p>There are more <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=spiegelman+little+lit&x=0&y=0">Little  Lit</a> titles, including <strong>It Was a Dark and Silly Night</strong>, which I'm sorry was not on the shelf with the other two!</p>

<p>and I also found this:</p>

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<p>Upon returning home, looking for something besides repeated clips of late pop stars, I came upon PBS/TPT's <em>Bill Moyers Journal</em> and <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html">his interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin</a> ("<a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781556592843-0">The Shadow of Sirius</a>"). Topics include language, his writing process, the natural world and his career.  He made a comment about one poem that quoted his mother as saying "even when you do not know, you will know."  "She never really said that, you know," he tells Moyers*. <br />
I found one excerpt <a href="http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090421_Maui_poet_wins_second_Pulitzer_Prize.html">here</a>.</p>

<p>*That echoed <a href="http://hanslick.blogspot.com/2008/04/andre-acimans-memoirs.html">what Andre Aciman said</a> about his memoir<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Out-Egypt-Memoir-Andre-Aciman/dp/0312426550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246071372&sr=8-1"> Out of Egypt</a>. Aciman and other authors presented a <a href="http://whosgotthestory.umn.edu/authors.html">panel discussion on memoirs at the U of M</a>  back in  2007. <a href="https://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/MyPlayerCaptioning.swf?width=320&height=240&myautoplay=true&file=download/php%3ffile%3d2977.flv&ccCaptionFilename=http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php?archtrans=1880">Watch him read from his book on MediaMill.</a> At the panel he describes writing more than one version of the walk he took with his brother on their last evening in Egypt, and commented that in fact his mother wouldn't have let him/them  out of the house. (Soxanne, did I get that right?)</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>How do you read?</title>
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    <published>2009-06-25T14:59:54Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-25T15:01:34Z</updated>

    <summary>From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated June 12, 2009 Reading Dickens Four Ways / How &apos;Little Dorrit&apos; fares in multiple text formats By...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated June 12, 2009<br />
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By ANN KIRSCHNER</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>New Look</title>
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    <published>2009-06-23T22:10:09Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-23T22:10:56Z</updated>

    <summary>Yes, indeed, Tambien has a new look - is anyone besides Anne and me looking?...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Yes, indeed, Tambien has a new look - is anyone besides Anne and me looking? </p>]]>
        
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