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		<title>Book Review:  The Magicians</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2011/09/26/book-review-the-magicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Magicians &#8212; Lev Grossman Rating: 5/5 It&#8217;s uncommon these days that I indulge in rereading novels.  It&#8217;s far more usual that I have a stack of books on my nightstand (yes, I&#8217;m still a dead tree man &#8212; for now) and as soon as I finish one book it&#8217;s off to the next one.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Ethshar Serial Starting</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/07/13/new-ethshar-serial-starting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After too long, Lawrence Watt-Evans is spinning up a new Ethshar serial &#8212; The Final Calling.  His Ethshar novels are excellent light fantasy, and are notable for having both a great amount of interesting, powerful magic as well as very believable, human characters that for the most part treat magic as just another phenomenon to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  The State of Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/11/18/book-review-the-state-of-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State of Jones &#8212; Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer Rating:  4/5 The State of Jones is a Civil War history, but one from a fairly unique perspective.  The main focus of the book is Newton Knight, a barely-better-than-subsistence farmer in Jones County, Mississippi.  Mr. Knight&#8217;s grandfather was a slaveholding planter with a moderate-sized plantation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Astrology (aka Book Review:  The Great Depression Ahead)</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/09/25/economic-astrology-aka-book-review-the-great-depression-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/09/25/economic-astrology-aka-book-review-the-great-depression-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Depression Ahead &#8212; Harry S. Dent, Jr. Rating: 1.5/5 I can&#8217;t really claim this is a full and complete review of The Great Depression Ahead, because I didn&#8217;t finish it. I borrowed it from a friend at work, and although I made an attempt to read it and got through the first three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  Last Call</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/09/22/book-review-last-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/09/22/book-review-last-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Call &#8212; Tim Powers Rating:  5/5 I&#8217;m probably taking my blog&#8217;s life in my hands posting a review of another Tim Powers novel.  The earlier one, about The Anubis Gates, continues to attract an inordinate amount of spam &#8212; probably five times as much as all other posts on the blog combined.  If it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  Anathem</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/09/11/book-review-anathem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anathem &#8212; Neil Stephenson Rating:  5/5 It&#8217;s been a while since Neil Stephenson wrote something that could be categorized as straight science fiction.  There was Snow Crash, and The Diamond Age (both of which were outstanding, by the way), but most of the rest of his fiction has been based at least mostly in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8212; The Twilight Series</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/08/11/book-review-the-twilight-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first step is admitting you have a problem: &#8220;Hi everyone, my name is Matt.&#8221; &#8220;Hi, Matt.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m a 39-year old straight man, and I like Twilight.&#8221; (applause, heckler yells &#8220;are you sure you&#8217;re straight?&#8221;) *** The Twilight Saga, by Stephenie Meyer Rating:  4.5/5 Although I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s not a 12-step program for Twilight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Anubis Gates</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2005/07/10/book-review-the-anubis-gates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Anubis Gates — Tim Powers Rating: 4.5/5 I’ve read a couple of Tim Powers novels in the past, but not nearly all of them. The Anubis Gates was one that I had been aware of and heard good things about for a long time, but never quite got around to reading. I’m glad I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Iron Sunrise</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2005/06/30/book-review-iron-sunrise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 02:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I finished my third Charles Stross novel a day or so ago. This time it was Iron Sunrise. Set in the same universe as Singularity Sky, Iron Sunrise is not a direct sequel, although the main characters are the same and there are some references to the previous book. Iron Sunrise — Charles Stross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Altered Carbon</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2005/06/26/book-review-altered-carbon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2005/06/26/book-review-altered-carbon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon. I’d heard a bit about this book in the past; it had made a pretty big splash for a debut novel, but I hadn’t read it. It arrived a few weeks ago in the CARE package of books my uncle Eric sent to me, and after making [...]]]></description>
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