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		<title>Reading groups, recommendations and re-reads</title>
		<link>http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/reading-groups-recommendations-and-re-reads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have stated before I decided this year to sign up for a number of reading challenges in the hopes that I could catch up on my TBR and WTR piles of titles. There are of course other sources &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/reading-groups-recommendations-and-re-reads/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=195&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East of the Sun: Julia Gregson</title>
		<link>http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/east-of-the-sun-julia-gregson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was one of my Reading Group reads and also a Chunkster one,  coming in at 480 pages.  I have mixed feelings about the book.  The history and locale I did enjoy very much. I have visited India and seen &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/east-of-the-sun-julia-gregson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=186&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alberta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell  Read as part of Mount TBR Reading Challenge and The Chunkster Reading Challenge. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell I found this book in a charity &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=175&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inanna:Queen of Heaven and Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read as part of The Telling Tales Reading Challenge Inanna:  Queen of Heaven and Earth her stories and hymns from Sumer by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer 1984 ISBN0-09-158181-8 I was introduced to Inanna last autumn on a mythology &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/inannaqueen-of-heaven-and-earth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=168&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Tales a Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another reading challenge I have entered this year is the Telling Tales Challenge over on an an arm chair by the sea and who wouldn&#8217;t want to read in an armchair with a sea view to glance up at occasionally &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/telling-tales-a-challenge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=156&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Small Island Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a member of 2 reading groups down here in the real world.  They are both run by our County Library Service, so both groups choose their books from the same list of a 100 +titles on offer.   I &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-small-island-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=150&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some books are massive!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the reading challenges I have signed up for this year are the Tea &#38; Books Reading Challengeand the Chunkster Reading Challenge.  I have been cautious at the level I am going in on the first of these challenges &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/some-books-are-massive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=134&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classical Literature:Reading Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am combining the two classic reading challenges in one post &#8211; cheating I know but there is a certain overlap. It&#8217;s been interesting to see what others define as a classic and as always see I need to do &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/classical-literaturereading-challenge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=65&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just how many days are there in a year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I have had great fun tracking down reading challenges &#8211; so many- hard to resist joining them all.  So working on the principle that I wish to decrease my TBR pile &#8211; which in reality is about a shopful! &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/how-many-days-in-a-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=56&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An even higher TBR pile than I imagined!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of my festive spring clean was upstairs in the &#8216;book room&#8217;  &#8211; very grand.  Actually it will take many months to overhaul and spring clean &#8211; probably into the spring.  I have thousands of books, not all mine, they &#8230; <a href="http://albertareads.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=albertareads.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30887360&amp;post=41&amp;subd=albertareads&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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