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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Damage by Josephine Hart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, Damage is about a middle-aged man who has an affair with a younger woman. Pretty standard dramatic fare, right? But wait&#8211;there&#8217;s more. The younger woman in question happens to be his son&#8217;s fiancée, and the man in question happens to be a member of Parliament. There is much more at work here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/09/08/book-review-damage-by-josephine-hart/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Evermore by Alyson Noël</title>
		<description><![CDATA[** spoiler alert ** I had a review written for this, but I can&#8217;t bring myself to post it. It isn&#8217;t constructive, and I try not to pan a book without offering up at least something positive or helpful. I once self-published an ebook (which has been offline for &#8220;repairs&#8221;/a total overhaul for three years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/08/31/book-review-evermore-by-alison-noel/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My spoiler-free, character-based review. It does, however, contain generic quotes from throughout the book, so be warned. Title: Why Katniss Everdeen is not your typical YA heroine Subtitle: In other words, why Katniss rocks I am going to break this down one quote at a time. Indirectly, this book calls a lot of young adult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/08/27/book-review-mockingjay-by-suzanne-collins/</link>
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		<title>Books Read in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books read in 2010: Maxxed Out - David Collins Flying in Place - Susan Palwick Kushiel&#8217;s Chosen &#8211; Jacqueline Carey War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun After Dark - Haruki Murakami Breathers: A Zombie&#8217;s Lament &#8211; S.G. Browne A German Love Story - Rolf Hochhuth Kushiel&#8217;s Avatar - Jacqueline [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/08/27/books-read-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Linger by Maggie Stiefvater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[** Spoiler Alert ** &#8220;Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she loved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/08/19/book-review-linger-by-maggie-stiefvater/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Just Listen by Sarah Dessen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not your average young adult romance. It has layers. Annabel isn&#8217;t always on her best behavior&#8211;she has flaws. Owen is edgy without being menacing. Frightening, emotionally abusive &#8220;heroes&#8221; have become a pervasive problem in young adult romances. It&#8217;s nice to see one break free of that formula. If there is a walking stereotype [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/08/18/378/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you crack open this book, understand something vital: Whatever you think you know about these characters, you&#8217;re, at best, only half-right. That doesn&#8217;t mean that this is a mind-bender of Murakami proportions, though there are some pretty significant twists. It means that the characters have depth. This is the warm, sometimes whimsical story of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/08/05/book-review-this-must-be-the-place-by-kate-racculia/</link>
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		<title>Book Review – Annexed by Sharon Dogar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annexed was a bold undertaking. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a pretty sacred Holocaust memoir. To explore Peter&#8217;s point of view in a novel constitutes a huge literary risk. On some levels, it paid off. But, as you&#8217;ll notice throughout this review, this book raised a lot of questions for me. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/07/22/book-review-annexed-by-sharon-dogar/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Hate List by Jennifer Brown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. Let me begin by saying that this book, quite relentlessly, ripped my heart out. The jacket of Hate List asks some tough questions: &#8220;What if you wished someone would die and then it happened? What if the killer was someone you loved?&#8221; This book sets out to answer those questions, using the aftermath of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/07/21/book-review-hate-list-by-jennifer-brown/</link>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love stories like this. A tragic event happens, and we are left with conflicting accounts of what really happened. Truth becomes subjective, if not completely unattainable. It&#8217;s what I loved so much about Akutagawa&#8217;s Rashomon (perhaps better known in its Akira Kurosawa adaptation). Before her tragic death, Raquel was a virtual non-entity in her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://meredithdias.com/2010/07/21/book-review-remembering-raquel-by-vivian-vande-velde/</link>
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