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		<title>The Woman in Black</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2012/02/06/the-woman-in-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=10458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are very few novels that purport to be scary that have ever actually made me not want to read them at night. I tend to read before bed, y&#8217;see. But when I got to the end of a chapter about halfway through The Woman In Black, I knew I had to stop and turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Alfred M.A.</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2012/01/23/mr-alfred-m-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The introduction says that George Friel, the author of Mr. Alfred, M.A., was a teacher and hated it. You can tell, given the title character&#8217;s disdain for / exhaustion with his profession. Mr. Alfred is a teacher in a shit part of Glasgow, teaching (mostly) shitty kids. His one ray of hope is Rose Weipers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Makers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=10151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Makers does what it says on the tin. It&#8217;s about guys who make stuff. The tinkerers and inventors. In a near future. I wasn&#8217;t sure I was going to like it. This is because I am far too aware of who Cory Doctorow is &#8212; it sets up expectations. I&#8217;m glad my fears weren&#8217;t realised. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stranger in a Strange Land</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/12/05/stranger-in-a-strange-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=9963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now I know where &#8216;grok&#8217; comes from. Valentine Michael Smith is a human who was raised as a Martian, and he&#8217;s been &#8216;returned&#8217; to Earth. His naïveté and deep wisdom bring confusion, chaos, and ecstasy to those around him. Heinlein&#8217;s Stranger in a Strange Land was an interesting read, mainly because it was so anachronistic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wetlands</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/11/11/wetlands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=9906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d heard a few things about Wetlands, mainly that you needed a strong stomach. But I was going into it sort of blind, because I knew nothing else about it. I can be pretty good at ignoring the hype that goes with the publishing business. Wetlands is the story of Helen Memel, who has checked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Husband, and The Last Bachelor</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/10/24/dear-husband-and-the-last-bachelor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of short story collections, picked up fairly randomly. I&#8217;ve read a few Joyce Carol Oates novels in the last few years, and I&#8217;ve always found them a decent read. I&#8217;d vaguely heard of this collection (Dear Husband,), so when I saw it at the library, I figured, why not? She doesn&#8217;t disappoint. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disturbing the Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/10/03/disturbing-the-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=9678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The back of the book tells you that the protagonist has a good life, and yet is slowly finding it unbearable, and one day he tells his wife he&#8217;s not coming home. In a &#8216;typical&#8217; Richard Yates book, this happens about half way. In Disturbing the Peace, however, that&#8217;s how it begins. (I&#8217;ve read other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Stories About Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/09/21/ten-stories-about-smoking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=9564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a suspicion that this book was sitting prominently in the library&#8217;s Quick Choice section because of the story &#8216;What&#8217;s in Swindon?&#8217; A nameless business hotel (I suspect either the Jury&#8217;s Inn or the Menzies) and ex sex, apparently. I mentioned the absolute brilliance of the production design of the book on Twitter &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Chill</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/09/13/arctic-chill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=9459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was quite pleased to find another Arnaldur Indriðason novel in the library, this one&#8217;s called Arctic Chill. A young Thai boy is found stabbed to death, and Erlendur, Elínborg, and Sigurður Óli try to find out who, why, and where. They aren&#8217;t helped by the victim&#8217;s mother, who almost immediately hides her other son, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hand That First Held Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/09/06/the-hand-that-first-held-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2011/09/06/the-hand-that-first-held-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=9358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Honesty time. Given my book snobbishness, I wasn&#8217;t expecting to like this, because it has a chick-lit kind of jacket. I only borrowed it at the library because it was in a Express zone. I know it won the Costa. Prizes don&#8217;t mean anything to me, except it does give some name recognition to the [...]]]></description>
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