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		<title>Book 6: Great Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. – From Wikipedia Great Expectations is a new addition to my 2012 26 book challenge list. I needed a replacement &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/book-6-great-expectations/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=193&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1,111 pages down&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happened to notice that as of this morning I&#8217;ve read a neat 1,111 pages as part of my 2012 26 book challenge. 8,247 pages to go&#8230; Filed under: Books Tagged: 26 book challenge<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=190&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book 5: The English Patient</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/book-5-the-english-patient/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=178&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book 4: The Uninvited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth book in my 26 book challenge was Geling Yan&#8217;s The Uninvited. This is the second book in the challenge that&#8217;s been authored by a woman. It&#8217;s interesting to note that, in the case of this and the first, &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/book-4-the-uninvited/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=173&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book 3: Steppenwolf</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steppenwolf is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. Combining autobiographical and psychoanalytic elements, the novel was named after the lonesome wolf of the steppes. &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/book-3-steppenwolf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=161&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book 2: Things Fall Apart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My reading is on schedule, but blogging about it is not. In the interests of catching up, I&#8217;m going to talk about my experience of the second book, and (in the next blog) introduce the third (which I&#8217;m already reading) &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/book-2-things-fall-apart/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=156&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art and honesty: Truth in advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday at the cinema we were treated to a trailer for The Iron Lady. Having seen the film only a few days ago, I was struck by just how dishonest this particular piece of marketing was. The trailer clearly implied &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/art-and-honesty-truth-in-advertising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=138&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film review: The Iron Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Team America: World Police, Trey Parker and Matt Stone neatly lampooned the film convention of the montage (&#8220;&#8230; show us a passage of time / we&#8217;re gonna need a montage &#8230; show a lot of things happening at once &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/film-review-the-iron-lady/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=97&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film review: Hugo</title>
		<link>http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/film-review-hugo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re sitting here in 3D. We are in 3D. We see in 3D. So why not?&#8221; This is how Martin Scorsese justified his decision to film Hugo using stereoscopic cameras. I find it a startling quote – an esteemed cinema &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/film-review-hugo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=72&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book 1: To Kill A Mockingbird</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960. It was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://alkinley.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/book-1-to-kill-a-mockingbird/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alkinley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30756922&amp;post=36&amp;subd=alkinley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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