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		<title>My Vicarious Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad This was a novel I read for my Senior English class. The story is told from the perspective of an Englishman, Charles Marlow who has survived a terrible ordeal during his time in Africa. He is assigned to be the captain of a boat in the Congo and to retrieve a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicarious Journeys by Alberto Arias</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy In The God of Small Things, Roy exposes India for its problems with class and society. She uses a colorful group of characters to criticize the caste system in India and all of the discrimination that comes with it. In the novel, time shifts between past and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vicarious Journeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lzhao92</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini In Hosseini&#8217;s novel, he follows the friendship, however disconnected, of two boys who&#8217;ve known each other since childhood. They played together, went through horrible experiences together and grew up together. But one of the boys, Amir, couldn&#8217;t handle the way the relationship was going, so he got rid of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Sun&#8217;s MUST READs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[White Teeth by Zadie Smith White Teeth is a contemporary novel that tells the multigenerational story of several families. The book opens with Archie Jones trying to commit suicide and one would wonder just exactly where this story will go. Archie Jones is best friends with Samad Iqbal and throughout the book, we will see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Excursions by Aleks Nekrasov</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Math The Band – Described as “one part Atom and His Package and one part Andrew W.K.”, this couple makes ball-to-the-wall, crazy, fun music that can most aptly be described as a punk band that uses mostly electronic instruments, with some guitar in the mix, with lyrics covering light-hearted matters. Ever on tour (they’ve played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophia Curran&#8217;s Top 5 (Inspired by High Fidelity)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene This book has been one of the most delightful and inspiring reads for me in a great while. It tells the story of a middle aged retired bank manager named Henry Pulling, who leads a very dull life, at least by my standards (his greatest hobby is maintaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ashelf10</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger           This was one of the required readings in my Freshman Composition class. The story depicts how the main character, Holden Caulfield, flunks class and runs away from his college preparatory school. His sojourn to New York City and his struggles with the surrounding reflect the insecurities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Movies, 10 Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EPAPA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inglourious Basterds World War II is a sensitive topic to discuss and parody even now, 65 years after its close. One could say that Quentin Tarantino, the director of Inglourious Basterds, was being blatantly flippant with this film, but it would be more appropriate to say that he was trying to create a film about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best 7 Books/TVSeries/Movies for Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AndrewLui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Before reading this novel, I think it was very important to study the context in which this novel was written. Knowing the fact that Conrad was a British writer who disliked the British’s system of imperialism, we can better understand some of the reverences and criticisms of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>afc826</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book: Ishmael Author: Daniel Quinn Two good friends of mine independently recommended this book to me within the same week. My two friends couldn’t be more different from one another but they have several things in common that made reading Ishmael a life changing event for them: they recognize humans are destroying the world; they [...]]]></description>
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