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		<title>Shelf notes: Hemingway&#8217;s grocery lists, sensational memoirs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Country Girls]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If most Americans can&#8217;t come to Hemingway&#8217;s home in Cuba, then some  of his belongings are coming to them: the JFK Library in Boston will acquire 2,000 digital copies of Hemingway&#8217;s papers, including letters, grocery lists, reports of hurricane sightings, and bar bills. &#8220;How did we get here, angels?&#8221; Michael Kammen at the Los Angeles<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2013/05/14/shelf-notes-hemingways-grocery-lists-sensational-memoirs/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shelf notes: &#8216;Gatsby&#8217; fever and literary dachshunds</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2013/04/29/shelf-notes-gatsby-fever-and-literary-dachshunds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claire Messud]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Great Gatsby]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copies of &#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221; are selling at an &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; rate, thanks to the publicity surrounding the Leonardo DiCaprio film of the novel, set to open on May 10. One caveat: do not read the movie&#8217;s tie-in edition on the subway. The new book &#8220;Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2013/04/29/shelf-notes-gatsby-fever-and-literary-dachshunds/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Add New Post&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2012/10/12/add-new-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve approached the blank page, wincing a little as I type. It&#8217;s been months and months since I&#8217;ve last posted anything &#8211; mea culpa &#8211; and, in the intervening time, there have been so many worthy books (though, as usual, not always the ones I expected and not nearly, nearly as many as I&#8217;d like).<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2012/10/12/add-new-post/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book News</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2012/01/20/book-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Downton Abbey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Wharton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Gatsby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Mantel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marilynne Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Amis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Burns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the third year in a row, Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s biggest fan has failed to materialize at his grave in Baltimore: &#8220;When he appears, the Toaster is typically shrouded in a long coat, his head covered with some kind of hat and a scarf that drapes across his face, the spotters say. He strides quickly<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2012/01/20/book-news/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Without Borders</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2011/07/31/without-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Borders Books on High Ridge Road announced its doors were closing a few months ago, I witnessed a mad rush of customers eager to scoop up the last of the ailing store&#8217;s goods. Interminably long lines snaked through the store, through the rifled, half-empty shelves stamped with bright orange 70% off stickers. People<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2011/07/31/without-borders/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Once upon a midnight dreary</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/31/once-upon-a-midnight-dreary/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/31/once-upon-a-midnight-dreary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe; Halloween; Philadelphia; short stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Edgar Allan Poe &#8211; spinner of spine-tinglers and tales of hearts that won&#8217;t stay still &#8211; immediately springs to mind when Halloween approaches. Few other horror stories in literature have quite the bone-chilling, heart-stopping quality of Poe&#8217;s, peopled with devious killers and strange, haunting manifestations of guilt. I&#8217;ve never quite been able to<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/31/once-upon-a-midnight-dreary/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Book spotting</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/02/book-spotting/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/02/book-spotting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public libraries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was wandering through the Ferguson Library the other day, with no determined purpose, when I spotted one of the usual book displays on the first floor and noticed that the arrangement of the books seemed a little&#8230;familiar. &#8220;This Side of Paradise&#8221; next to &#8220;The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit&#8221;? &#8220;A Connecticut Yankee in<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/02/book-spotting/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Dramatizing the act of reading&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/01/dramatizing-the-act-of-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/01/dramatizing-the-act-of-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first read &#8220;The Great Gatsby&#8221;, it was summer — the best time of year, I think, to become acquainted with Gatsby&#8217;s decadent stretch of Long Island. Lying on the beach, I flipped through sun-soaked pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s languid prose, wishing I could dust off my sandy feet and step straight into<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/10/01/dramatizing-the-act-of-reading/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Kafka papers</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/09/23/the-kafka-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/09/23/the-kafka-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.&#8221; — Franz Kafka, &#8220;The Metamorphosis&#8221; Imagine, for a moment, a canon of Western literature without &#8220;The Metamorphosis.&#8221; Without Gregor Samsa&#8217;s bizarre plight as an insect, without the novels &#8220;The Castle&#8221;, &#8220;The Trial&#8221;, &#8220;Amerika&#8221;&#8230;without even the<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/09/23/the-kafka-papers/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A new version of events</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/09/23/a-new-version-of-events/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/09/23/a-new-version-of-events/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sinking of the Titanic in April, 1912 is such a well-known piece of history, that the spiral of events into disaster seems familiar and thoroughly picked over. However, a new book &#8220;Good as Gold&#8221;, written by the granddaughter of the ship&#8217;s Second Officer brings new facts to the surface about the human errors and<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/09/23/a-new-version-of-events/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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