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		<title>Just Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, sitting on a stool in my sunny kitchen, I began the final section of Patti Smith&#8217;s Just Kids. This is the part of the book in which she describes Robert&#8217;s illness and death. Reading, I felt sadness trickle in and then fill me with the loss of him. My sorrow was for all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=189&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heathens &amp; Believers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What kind of postal worker heathen processes a magazine by ham-fisting a numerical code onto it with a ball point pen? Is the mailing label somehow not sufficient to direct The Believer to my home? Or perhaps it is assumed that periodical recipients won&#8217;t much care that their edition has been personalized for them by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=179&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Laura Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thumbing through The Magician&#8217;s Book: A Skeptic&#8217;s Adventures in Narnia has inspired me to finish my letter to Laura Miller (see About the Project).  Check out her review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Miller writes: &#8220;The Magicians&#8221; is a grown-up&#8217;s book, one that reflects on the sort of questions you never think to ask [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=167&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monster Medley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coraline scared the shit out of everyone I gave it to (adults or near adults). Neil Gaiman has this to say about that: As a general rule, Coraline the book is much creepier for adults than it is for kids, who tend to read it as an adventure. I suspect that this will be true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=149&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of the Flood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just started The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. I pre-ordered it from Chapters and it came last week. I was surprised though that I could remember so little of Oryx and Crake. I loved the book but six years later I just had a vision of a man in a tree. Doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=116&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Monsters&#8230; of Templeton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen King ‘blurbed’ The Monsters of Templeton thus “there are monsters, murders, bastards and ne’er-do-wells almost without number. I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end”—and that is reason enough for me to read this book. But add to that the fabulous book cover, maps, letters, family photos, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=105&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Monsters</title>
		<link>http://10letters.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/we-monsters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t love the way one book leads to another? While I work through my inability to book bind, I thought I would put up some books grouped by theme.  Some of my book shelves are organized by theme and I like thinking about books this way. We Monsters There are six books in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=91&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the elegance of the bone folder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I confess that I have been too daunted by the challenges of binding to achieve much towards my mini book in the past few weeks. I did read a lot about the bone folder and have practiced my technique. I&#8217;ve used this tool to fold paper for years but discovered that I should be scoring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=84&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fan letter</title>
		<link>http://10letters.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/fan-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[might there not be, especially in a society in which writers feel misunderstood and neglected, an obligation to write the occasional carefully wrought fan letter? Wayne C. Booth Over the next two weeks I&#8217;ll be doing two things for the first time: writing a fan letter (to Laura Miller, of course) and trying to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=72&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not another f***ing elf!*</title>
		<link>http://10letters.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/not-another-fing-elf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  This one is for you, Jon. C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were great friends, for a time. Although I have read both authors repeatedly as a child and since, I have never read a biography of either and didn’t realize they were friends or that they influenced each other’s work until I read The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=10letters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6412138&amp;post=63&amp;subd=10letters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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