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		<title>The New, New Kindle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading through some of the last posts I made to this blog, I see that I was hung up on the &#8220;new Kindle.&#8221; Well, now I&#8217;m not only hung up on the new, new Kindle, but I&#8217;ve bought one! I don&#8217;t even have a shipping date at this point, but if Amazon is to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=208&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the Horse</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fell off the blogging bandwagon hard once I started graduate school March 2009. Between work and school, I&#8217;ve had little time for anything else. I&#8217;ve been reading a good bit along the way, but I haven&#8217;t found the inspiration to blog about it &#8212; until now! Book reviews and updates will be coming soon. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=206&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dean Koontz has been my favorite author for more years than I can remember.  I&#8217;ve read most of what has been published under his name, and some of what&#8217;s been published under various pseudonyms. Anyone who has read more than 30 books from one author will surely acknowledge that not all novels by a single [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=185&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fingersmith by Sarah Waters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I&#8217;d have said I love you, she&#8217;d have said it back. And then everything would have been different. I might have saved her. I might have found a way to keep her from her fate. To write much about this book would spoil some of the delicious pleasure that comes from reading a novel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=177&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire time I was reading this book, I kept hearing &#8220;I, am, the mess-en-ger &#8230;&#8221; dancing in my head to the tune of &#8220;I, am, the warr-i-or &#8230;&#8221; It&#8217;s a scary place in there. Actually, that sort of fits the theme of the book. I wonder if Zusak thought of that. This was another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=171&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard, Amazon released info on Kindle 2 today. No big surprises for anyone who&#8217;s seen the leaked photos that came out last year. In fact, it appears that you can&#8217;t even order version 1 from Amazon&#8217;s site anymore, even though I know lots of people are still waiting for the ones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=162&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paper Towns by John Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t read young adult books often, but I&#8217;ve seen lots of recommendations for this one lately. So, when I saw it at the library this weekend, I decided to give it a try. It&#8217;s a quick, enjoyable read, although it lacked something for me. Basically, it&#8217;s the story of a boy who has lived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=159&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading this book, I&#8217;m definitely left with the sense that Isabel Allende is the type of person I would love. She&#8217;s honest about her faults, passionate about her strengths, and just plain full of love and generosity toward the people around her. How can you not love that? She&#8217;s also incredibly funny in that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=148&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Currently Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because the majority of the posts on this blog are about books I&#8217;ve read, there isn&#8217;t much to say while I&#8217;m in the midst of a good, long read. Yet I miss posting to the blog. I&#8217;ve tried to supplement these reading spells with posts about book sites or author discussions, but that&#8217;s really not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=140&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough , it is your God-given right to have it. I try not to watch a movie before I read the book it was based on, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=desertreader.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6205542&amp;post=135&amp;subd=desertreader&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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