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		<title>Review: The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James</title>
		<link>http://joysweb.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/review-the-complete-ghost-stories-of-mr-james/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Published by Penguin Books, 1984; 360+ pages
I read this book back in October, for the R.I.P. III Challenge and the Ghostly Challenge, so you can see I’m very late in getting a review up. For some reason, my reviewing activity has dwindled to a standstill lately – there are at least four books I read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=379&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Summer Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Hilma Wolitzer
Published by Ballantine Books, 2007; 251  pages
I was a little suspicious of Hilma Wolitzer’s novel Summer  Reading when I first read the plot summary. A book about a group  of women getting together to read books, and how that activity affected their  lives outside the group, sounded an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=355&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The House with a Clock in Its Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by John Bellairs
Illustrated by Edward Gorey
A Dell Yearling Book, Published 1973
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs, is the first book in his Lewis Barnavelt series of gothic horror novels for young readers.
Orphaned when his parents are killed in an auto accident, ten-year-old Lewis comes to live with his Uncle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=348&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Mr. White&#8217;s Confession</title>
		<link>http://joysweb.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/review-mr-whites-confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Robert Clark
Published by Picador, 1998, 341  pages
That is the sad thing about memory, I suppose. It goes  without saying that search as we will, we cannot know the future; but it seems  we cannot even know the past, however much we search it; and so we are always  longing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=341&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Superfudge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Judy Blume
Published by Dell Yearling, 1994 and  later
Originally published 1980
This review refers to the  1994 edition of the book.
Young Readers Challenge
Is Judy  Blume still popular? I know she was wildly successful back in the 1970s and  ‘80s. But do kids still read her books? She was one of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=335&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: So Long at the Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Christina Schwarz
Published by Doubleday, 2008, 244  pages
This review refers to an Advanced Reader’s Edition of the  book
The main narrative of Christina Schwarz’s novel So  Long at the Fair takes place in the course of one summer day, and  is basically the story of a marriage going through a rocky [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=329&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: American Wife</title>
		<link>http://joysweb.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/review-american-wife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Curtis Sittenfeld
Published by Random House, 2008, 550+  pages
This review refers to an Advance Reader’s Edition of the  book
It’s taken me a long time to get this book read. By now, I  suppose everybody knows the story. So here’s the shortest synopsis I can come up  with: Mild-mannered school librarian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=323&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Cuppy</title>
		<link>http://joysweb.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/will-cuppy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 59th anniversary of the death of the great American satirist Will Cuppy. Not as familiar or as widely read today as he should be, Cuppy was a very popular essayist and reviewer during his lifetime. And although a very private, even reclusive individual, he was well-known and respected in the literary world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=290&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Gargoyle</title>
		<link>http://joysweb.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/review-the-gargoyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Andrew Davidson
Published by Doubleday, 2008, 468 pages
This review refers to an advance reading copy of the book
Just a short note about The Gargoyle. There’s not a great deal to say about the book that hasn’t already been said, and said again. Unless you’ve been buried in a coal mine for the last few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=252&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Fires</title>
		<link>http://joysweb.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/review-the-fires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jlshall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Alan Cheuse
Published by The Santa Fe Writers Project, 2007, 113 pages
The pair of short novellas that together make up Alan Cheuse’s The Fires are excellently crafted and emotionally compelling works exploring themes of memory, love, loss, and renewal. As I read them I was often reminded of J.D. Salinger – almost as if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joysweb.wordpress.com&blog=3843407&post=244&subd=joysweb&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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