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		<title>Book Review: Black no Sugar &#8211; 9 Short Stories, by A.W. Wilson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>td Whittle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black no Sugar &#8211; 9 Short Stories by A.W. WilsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars &#160; Black no Sugar is a collection of nine short stories by A.W. Wilson, a self-published author, containing some bleak, pithy, funny, and well-crafted prose. I have read it slowly, one or two stories at a time, because (as promised) each story is like a dose of hot and bitter brew. In fact, that is just how I prefer my coffee, and it was the title, along with the hilarious image of a much-overused Munch painting on a Starbucks take-away cup (I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d never see a fresh re-frame of that, but life is full of surprises) that made me decide to give the stories a try. I figured&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Cactus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 08:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   We have some cactuses growing in pots on our back terrace. They are pretty and harmless, unless touched &#8230; or, so I&#8217;d thought. I had never really looked at them up close until recently. Robin took some photos of them out in the sunshine, thinking that I might enjoy them, and looking at the results made me realise two things: firstly, that I really like the aesthetics of cactuses, which I&#8217;d never thought much about until then; secondly, that we are harbouring an alien colony, which may or may not be planning to destroy us. &#160; Nevertheless, they are tiny, so I think we don&#8217;t have to worry just yet. Having said that, anyone who ever read The Day of the Triffids understands&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the Possum Moon of Doom</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/05/beware-the-possum-moon-of-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 08:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>td Whittle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo Essays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Before my husband and I married, he lived here in Melbourne, and I lived in Houston. We talked on the phone daily, usually during his mornings and my evenings, but that would vary, and the time of day we spoke would inevitably influence what was taking place in our surrounding environments. The first conversation we ever had about possums, which are nocturnal animals that frolic in the Melbourne suburbs come twilight, went something like this: &#160; Him: &#8220;There&#8217;s a possum in my garden and I am watching it as I talk to you.&#8221; &#160; Me: &#8220;Ugh. You should shoo it away. They are revolting. I am an animal lover, for the most part, but I find it hard to love feral rats and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Trap</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/04/the-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Peterson Ramirez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[     &#8220;A trap is only a trap if you don&#8217;t know about it. If you know about it, it&#8217;s a challenge.&#8221;~China Miéville, King Rat]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, by Steven Sherrill</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/04/book-review-the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break-by-steven-sherrill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/04/book-review-the-minotaur-takes-a-cigarette-break-by-steven-sherrill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>td Whittle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven SherrillMy rating: 5 of 5 stars &#160; Here&#8217;s my advice and the three-word version of my review: read this book. &#160; There are some excellent reviews already here on Goodreads about The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and I don&#8217;t have an especially brilliant addition to make to those. What I would say, though, is that the book is worth reading because the writing is sublime. It&#8217;s at turns funny and tragic. It engages our empathy in a way that reminds us &#8211; however uncomfortably &#8211; that we, too, are instinct-driven animals lurking beneath the more refined parts of our neocortex; that we are somewhat freakish and terribly vulnerable; and that, frequently, we are wholly or partially&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>13 Ways: Traveling Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Peterson Ramirez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to last,&#8221; she said, carefully squeezing the lime into her drink and giving it a thorough stir. &#8220;You sound very sure.&#8221; He tried to keep the hope out of his voice. They&#8217;d done this dance before. Many times. &#8220;She doesn&#8217;t like to travel.&#8221; She dipped one finger in the drink, ran it along the rim and then licked the salt, tasting it. &#8220;But you just went to Vegas?&#8221; He hated the question in his voice. Hated the tingle of excitement elicited by watching her lick her fingers. Hated that he wanted details to think about later. She shot him a look of disgusted amusement. &#8220;Vegas isn&#8217;t traveling. It&#8217;s&#8230;&#8221; She searched for a word. He waited, knowing better than to help.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Do Not Disturb</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/04/do-not-disturb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Peterson Ramirez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;   &#8220;Alone. Yes, that&#8217;s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.&#8221; ~Stephen King]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/03/book-review-hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world-by-haruki-murakami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>td Whittle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami My rating: 5 of 5 stars &#160; So here&#8217;s the thing about Haruki Murakami that turns my brain into fairy floss: how is it that this 60ish Japanese guy writes in such a way that I feel he is exploring not only his own psychic underworld, but also mine? (I should mention here that I am not likewise a 60ish Japanese guy.) Given his rampant popularity across cultures, I am assuming I am not the only one who has this experience. His fans seem to return to him like &#8230; Well, like whatever the 2013 version of a crack whore returning to the den is &#8230; No, more like an opium den, isn&#8217;t&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A Reader&#8217;s Question: Is it important for protagonists to be likeable?</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/03/a-readers-question-is-it-important-for-protagonists-to-be-likeable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 11:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>td Whittle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.” ― Dorothy Parker, The Algonquin Wits &#160; Today, while perusing Goodreads, I became interested in a thread about John Kennedy Toole&#8217;s picaresque novel, A Confederacy of Dunces , which a couple of readers declared they&#8217;d set aside unfinished, because they did not like the main characters. I love A Confederacy of Dunces for many reasons, but I would say that the likeableness of Ignatius, Irene, and Myrna the Minx had little to do with my overall enjoyment and appreciation of the book. I am not sure that I even asked myself questions about their personal charms (or lack thereof) while reading it, except for considering that a woman would have to have&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Sandra!</title>
		<link>http://www.liketellingthetruth.com/2013/02/happy-birthday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>td Whittle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Dear Sandra, &#160; Your birthday is already happening on my side of the world, but it&#8217;s yet to arrive on yours. (It all seems to be going just fine, so far ;) I thought you should wake up to a hot and steamy cup of coffee and a special birthday post. How better to begin the day but with birthday haiku? These are three of my favourites: &#160; Years may come and go but our friends and memories&#8230; what was I saying? &#160; It is your birthday! Drop everything and have cake. You don&#8217;t have to share. (Since I am not there.) (And since I added that line, this is no longer a true haiku; but will it do, since it is&#8230;]]></description>
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