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	<title>Rebecca Reads</title>
	<link>http://reviews.rebeccareid.com</link>
	<description>Thoughts about reading fiction, nonfiction, &#38; children&#039;s books, new &#38; old</description>
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		<title>If You Are Looking for Georgette Heyer&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;ll be visiting A Striped Armchair today. Although I was scheduled for Heyer&#8217;s Classics Circuit stop today originally, we&#8217;ve since tweaked the schedule, so if you are looking for the updated schedule, make sure to visit the Classics Circuit site.
I have some personal things going right now so I&#8217;ll be absent from reading and commenting [...]

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		<link>http://reviews.rebeccareid.com/if-you-are-looking-for-georgette-heyer/</link>
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		<title>Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass + The Listeners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his narrative of life in slavery and what led him to escape, Frederick Douglass captured the chief dilemmas that slaves dealt with, including slavery of the mind. Douglass’s slavery in Baltimore and surrounding areas was horrendous, and yet it was, as he admitted, quite tame compared to those experiences that slaves on plantations in [...]

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		<link>http://reviews.rebeccareid.com/narrative-in-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-the-listeners/</link>
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		<title>Reading Journal (March 3): Swapping Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I finished a few shorter books, as well as my project book, which I’d worked on all month, and The Fellowship of the Ring, which was the February Lord of the Rings book. I enjoyed Woolf’s book, and Douglass’s narrative was a great perspective on what it meant to be a slave. DNA [...]

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		<title>The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobel laureate (1968) Yasunari Kawabata is obviously talented at describing scenes, and there was, in The Old Capital, something refreshing about a slow-paced story of a young woman coming into a realization of herself.
In her free time, Chieko would see the cherry blossoms and visit the cedar forests. It was a celebration of the world [...]

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		<title>February in Review</title>
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I will miss February’s calendar picture. It is just the prettiest picture in the calendar and I find it sad that it happened to be on the shortest month! The days have been filled with well-enjoyed books, though. It was a satisfying month.
March’s picture is not as exciting to me, but I do like the [...]

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		<title>A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf is an historical essay, so as I began reading, I wondered how relevant it was for me. After all, I don’t feel I’ve been discriminated against because of my gender and I like where I am with my life and the options I have before me. However, [...]

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		<title>A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities is full of dark Victorian romance. Muddy roads on a dark night. A secluded house on a corner that echoes footsteps. Cemetaries at night. And, of course, Paris streets that run with wine and then blood because of La Guillotine.  It is a sinister world for the upper [...]

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		<title>Reading Journal (24 February): My First Vlog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;m much more comfortable writing than talking, when it comes to my favorite subject (books), I decided I could give talking about books a try. Thanks to the encouragement of Amanda, Eva, and Jason, here&#8217;s my first vlog!

You&#8217;ll notice that I&#8217;m just as nerdy in person as I am in writing. I made an [...]

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		<title>Reading Reflections: A Book Kingdom</title>
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The figure of my study is round, and has no more bare wall than what is taken up by my table and chair; so that the remaining parts of the circle present me a view of all my books at once, set upon five rows of shelves round about me. … ’Tis there that I [...]

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		<title>Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I just need something light. Something that makes me chuckle. I’ve been reading a lot of old classics (which I love) and nonfiction (which fascinates me). But when I went to start another portion of my painting project, I needed something light and funny. I couldn’t concentrate on serious when I was doing a [...]

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		<title>Reading Journal (17 Feb): A Brief Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only read one nonfiction book in January, so my library requests focused on the nonfiction for February. But I have still been craving fiction. I feel like I’ve been reading a lot this week, but I have barely anything to show for it. I’ve been working on Inventing English, which is quite fascinating, but [...]

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		<title>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</title>
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		<title>Black No More by George S. Schuyler</title>
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		<title>Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples, abridged by Henry Steele Commager</title>
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		<title>Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn</title>
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		<title>Reading Journal (3 February): Black History Month</title>
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I’m already planning to read a Harlem Renaissance Classic for the Classics Circuit (Black No More), but I decided rather belatedly to read some more African-American history for Black History Month.  I went to my own bookshelves and was surprised to find I don’t have very many African-American books I haven’t read. I realize, as [...]

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		<title>Harlem Renaissance Poetry</title>
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Yesterday began Black History Month in the USA! The Harlem Renaissance-themed Classics Circuit began yesterday as well, and I hope you follow along as bloggers unite in reading classic works by African-Americans.
Although this post is not for the Circuit, in preparing for that Classics Circuit, I did a lot of preliminary reading about the era [...]

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		<title>January in Review: A Good Start to 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the month, my friend gave me a calendar called “The Reading Woman.” Apparently she knows I like to read. Each month has a different painting of a woman reading. I’ve decided to use it to keep track of the books I’ve read each month: when I finish a book, I write [...]

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		<title>Any Interest in a May Read-Along of Paradise Lost?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know May is still three months away, but I just want to gauge interest and see what you all think. I loved reading Paradise Lost a decade ago when I was in college and I&#8217;ve been thinking it&#8217;s about time to revisit it. The language of the poem was so beautiful, and I loved [...]

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		<title>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although To the Lighthouse is told in a similar stream-of-consciousness manner as was Mrs. Dalloway (reviewed two weeks ago), it struck me as different, and I’m not sure why. Was there more plot? Maybe. Was it the setting (the Hebrides versus London)? Maybe. I do know that as I read, I was less emotionally drawn [...]

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		<title>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (translated by Simon Armitage)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe this is odd but I’m not crazy about adventure stories. Characters are stereotypes, the adventures they must go through are stereotypes, and all ends up well in the end. I guess I just hope for a little depth or humor or ambiguity when I read.
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		<title>Reading Journal (27 January): Addicted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I volunteer at a local library on Friday mornings, and I noticed something odd about myself. As I was going to leave the library, I realized I hadn’t checked anything out. I had a book on hold for me at a different branch, and I had more than a dozen books at home. But I [...]

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