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		<title>The Unforeseen &#8211; Christian Oster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[French]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unforeseen is virtually every eventuality for the anti-hero narrator of this rather strange novel. Part road novel, part psychological study of an unusually introspective mind-set, the almost imperceptibly arcing narrative consists of little more than the halting progress of a couple (in varying stages of couple-ness) towards an ill-fated party. The facet of the &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/15/the-unforeseen-christian-oster/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14750&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 19:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ephemera]]></category>
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		<title>Vladimir Nabokov (Illustrated Life) &#8211; Jane Grayson</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/05/vladimir-nabokov-illustrated-life-jane-grayson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 22:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I said wrt the last &#8216;biography&#8217; I read (which was immediately previous to this one) I don&#8217;t read biography. Particularly literary ones. Well, it&#8217;s a slippery slope when you start coming up with ifs, buts and justifications. I took this biography on trust, having been assured that it doesn&#8217;t do those things of which &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/05/vladimir-nabokov-illustrated-life-jane-grayson/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14683&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/04/the-autobiography-of-alice-b-toklas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 22:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I begin, a warning. If you don&#8217;t know about The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas then this will be the biggest SPOILER of all time. Having said that, I picked up on this book while listening to BBC Radio 4&#8242;s Great Lives, on Gertrude Stein, and Matthew Parris didn&#8217;t give any kind of spoiler &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/04/the-autobiography-of-alice-b-toklas/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14645&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The lights are on but nobody&#8217;s home. GR 4:0-4:6</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/03/gravitys-rainbow-40-46/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 21:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scheduled read, I find, always falls apart in the last couple of weeks. After the penultimate episode there are seventy pages to go. So what ya gonna do? Naturally, you continue and finish, leading to a decided inclination to rest on the laurels and a marked reluctance to do any more &#8216;work.&#8217; Following last &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/05/03/gravitys-rainbow-40-46/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14632&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pure &#8211; Andrew Miller</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/27/pure-andrew-miller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pure is Andrew Miller&#8217;s Costa prizewinning historical story of eighteenth century engineer Jean-Baptiste Barrate and his gruelling task, which is to raze and purify the reeking cemetery (and church) of Les Innocents in Paris, the fetid air of which is poisoning the locale&#8230; Miller&#8217;s sixth novel, it feels more precisely engineered than the task performed &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/27/pure-andrew-miller/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14380&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Squeak, Piggy, Squeak.  GR 3:25-3:32</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/26/squeak-piggy-squeak-gr-325-332/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This segment launches with lemmings before sliding into Slothropian family history. William Slothrop is a rather engaging pig farmer. (With pigs that aren&#8217;t altogether lemming-less.) &#8216;By the time they got to market those hogs were so skinny it was hardly worth it, but William wasn&#8217;t really in it so much for the money as just &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/26/squeak-piggy-squeak-gr-325-332/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14568&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Book Night &#8211; The Story</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/23/world-book-night-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the cold and wet, giving out World Book Night books has been a good experience. Catching people waiting at the station was more successful than intercepting harried commuters at the end of their journey, but there were considerably more disembarking than embarking, so we went not so much with the flow as against it! &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/23/world-book-night-the-story/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14503&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s World Book Night!</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/23/its-world-book-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are celebrating World Book Night today (if that is not an oxymoron) in the UK, Ireland, Germany and the USA. With the aid of my three lovely daughters I will be doing my bit later on, giving out twenty-four copies of The Road at my local railway station. The books are collected, my dismay &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/23/its-world-book-night/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14488&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lifted Veil &#8211; George Eliot</title>
		<link>http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/22/the-lifted-veil-george-eliot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a very long time since I last read anything written by George Eliot. The most recent would have been Middlemarch, my favourite, which I have read several times. This lapse will perhaps account for the strange illusion of Eliotlessness engendered by this novella. (Given a &#8216;blind test&#8217; I might have named any number &#8230; <a href="http://ratinthebookpile.com/2012/04/22/the-lifted-veil-george-eliot/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ratinthebookpile.com&#038;blog=5368527&#038;post=14509&#038;subd=sarahbbc&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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