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		<title>PEOPLE OF THE BOOK</title>
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Viking, US$25.95
I&#8217;d been ignoring this novel. There are so many reasons to not read a book: time, money, a small fit of intellectual laziness, the fact that nobody at Viking saw fit to send BTWOF a review copy&#8230;. The reviews I&#8217;d read were intriguing but&#8230;. And then I received this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Salvage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bonnie Jo Campbell&#8217;s American Salvage includes the best girl-getting-her-own-back (after sexual abuse) story I&#8217;ve read since, oh, Bastard Out of Carolina.
It&#8217;s a great collection. I picked it up because of its references to Kalamazoo, Plainwell, Comstock, and other small towns of my youth, references that, in another mood, would have sent me screaming from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2010/01/09/american-salvage/</link>
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		<title>Coventry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coventry
by Helen Humphreys
Norton, March 2009, $23.95 cloth, 177 pages
  
Sweet, tender, short and not a word awry. And one of the best anti-war novels I’ve ever read. Just what we need, right now, as we’re settling into to Obama’s “next 100 days,” with none of the wars ended and another one emerging in Pakistan. Coventry reminds us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://btwof-tle.com/2009/06/07/coventry/</link>
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		<title>TLE&#8217;s Novel of the Year 2005</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wild Dogs is the ultimate stealth (lesbian) novel. If introducing this novel to a wider lesbian readership was the only thing I accomplished in two and a half years of publishing this rag, it would be worth it.
Let’s start with the PR — while I sympathize with the publicists’ dilemma (there’s almost nothing you can [...]]]></description>
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