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		<title>10 Ten 2010 Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to cozy up to the fireplace with a good book? How do you want to spend that gift card? Trying to decide what is the first download on that new Kindle. Here are my top ten book recommendations for 2010. NON-FICTION The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrooge Lives In Skaneateles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dickens Christmas Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finger Lakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrooge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?” “Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years,” Scrooge replied. “He died seven years ago, this night.&#8221; Don’t look now, Ebenezer, but Mr. Marley is right behind you. It is going to be a long night for Scrooge, but a great weekend for us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain Rests Nearby</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Observing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elmira College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Samuel L. Clemens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Twain stares at us from the cover of a recent Newsweek magazine. You almost hear him proclaim, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Yet Samuel Langhorne Clemens is buried a few hours from my house in Elmira, New York. Clemens spent summers in this Upstate New York village. The first stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock &amp; Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[221b baker street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fortunate to have visited London dozens of times. The first stop on my initial visit to Britain’s capitol was not to Big Ben, the Tower of London, or Buckingham Palace. It was to visit an old friend, Sherlock Holmes. The Circle Line of the London Underground drops me off about a five minute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading:  The Best Books . . . So Far . . . In 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[9 Dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbeth Salander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outliers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mid-year sunshine is time for beach towels, blue skies, and a good novel. Here are my picks . . . so far . . . for the best books in 2010. NON-FICTION Outliers – The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell: My dad used to claim, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Recommendation &#8211; Outliers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese math]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Beatles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My book-reading is altered this year. Teaching requires textbook and other educational reading. Along that path I stumbled on &#8216;Outliers&#8217; by Malcolm Gladwell. It is a fascinating study on success that completely changes how we view it. I highly recommend it. Gladwell begins with Canadian hockey stars. The majority of the best are born in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Books of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clive Cussler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Grisham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Updike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a youth I was in the habit of borrowing more library books than I was able to read.    My mom insisted that once I opened a book it must be completely read before I started another.   This rule was not only a good habit, but it really reduced my library fines.    The rule is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 2009 Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Bradley. Dave Cullen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrw Ross Sorkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Liss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Stanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlan Coben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Deaver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Howe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spencer Quinn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Armed with my Kindle, IPOD, and car CD player, I read or listened to over fifty books this year.   Ironically, only one was printed on paper &#8211; but that is another blog.  Here are my top ten books for 2009.  In a few days I will post the worst ten. NON-FICTION Columbine by Dave Cullen:  [...]]]></description>
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