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		<title>Trouble with &#8220;The Children&#8217;s Book&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/03/10/trouble-with-the-childrens-book/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/03/10/trouble-with-the-childrens-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Booker Prize shortlist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to love “The Children’s Book”, by A.S. Byatt. I really did. It boasted a complex array of characters, a historically fascinating setting, a plot that twisted into the thickets of intrigue and more than a few hints of fantasy — in short, all the elements of a cracking good read. And yet I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salinger letters emerge</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/12/salinger-letters-emerge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/12/salinger-letters-emerge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between the years of 1951 and 1993, Salinger wrote a series of letters to his friend E. Michael Mitchell, a graphic artist who designed the original jacket cover of &#8220;The Catcher in the Rye&#8221; (that famous red horse), and lived next to Salinger in Westport. Two weeks after his death, eleven letters addressed from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holden in the movies?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/12/holden-in-the-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/12/holden-in-the-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this article recently about the prospect of filming &#8220;Catcher in the Rye&#8221;, and whether or not the book really is &#8220;unfilmable.&#8221;  Salinger naturally refused to sell the rights during his lifetime, but with his recent death comes a renewed swirl of intrigue over the idea of a movie.
Personally, I think it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not-always-so-sweet emotion</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/08/not-always-so-sweet-emotion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/08/not-always-so-sweet-emotion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tommellana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Salinger scares up a perfect summation of adolescence in the initial scenes between Holden and his roommate, Stradlater.
Stradlater, who is obviously the ladies man that Holden is not, reveals he has a date with a girl who says she knows Holden:
“ ‘I’m thinking … Uh, Jean Gallagher.’
“Boy, I nearly dropped dead when he said that.
“ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello Again, Old Friend</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/05/hello-again-old-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/05/hello-again-old-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tommellana</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was probably a couple of years younger than Holden’s 17 when I first read ‘Catcher.’ Now I’m 25 years older than he was (is).  It’s been a very long time since I’ve reread the book, 10 years or so. But I’m finding I remember much of it more than most of the books I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Boy, that kills me&#8221; — Holden&#8217;s vernacular</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/04/boy-that-kills-me-%e2%80%94-holdens-vernacular/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/04/boy-that-kills-me-%e2%80%94-holdens-vernacular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most distinctive qualities of Salinger&#8217;s prose in &#8220;Catcher in the Rye&#8221; is breezy, colloquial style of the language. In a way, Holden&#8217;s mode of self-expression follows in the tradition of Huck Finn&#8217;s, and the task of writing in a specific and believable vernacular is, I would imagine, very challenging  — capturing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading &#8220;Catcher&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/02/01/reading-catcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you&#8217;ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don&#8217;t feel like going into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying goodbye to J.D. Salinger</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/01/28/saying-goodbye-to-j-d-salinger/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/01/28/saying-goodbye-to-j-d-salinger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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The elusive and beloved author of &#8220;The Catcher in the Rye&#8221;, &#8220;Franny and Zooey&#8221;, and &#8220;Nine Stories&#8221;, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish N.H., at the age of 91. The New York Times ran a detailed and fitting obituary.
Salinger is perhaps best known as the creator of one of the most caustic and endearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Burns Night</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/01/25/happy-burns-night/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/01/25/happy-burns-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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January 25, 2010 marks the 251st birthday of the Scottish poet Robert Burns, author of &#8220;Auld Lang Syne&#8221; and &#8220;My luv&#8217;s like a red, red rose.&#8221; Each year, the anniversary is commemorated with the celebration of Burns Night, a traditional holiday in Scotland and the UK.  Burns Night festivities usually honor the bard of Scotland with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to George</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/01/21/heres-to-george/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/bookends/2010/01/21/heres-to-george/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Just</dc:creator>
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&#8220;In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.&#8221; &#8211; George Orwell
Today marks the 60th anniversary of George Orwell&#8217;s death. He was born Eric Arthur Blair in Motihari, India, on June 25 1903, and died in London on January 21, 1950, at the age of forty-six. For the last three years [...]]]></description>
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