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		<title>Cracked On Its Wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blood counts are down today from last week. Neutrophils are hovering at the bottom of &#8220;normal&#8221; range, but my overall counts were down to 2.4 (marked simply with a &#8220;C&#8221; in the margin of my blood work sheet: &#8220;C&#8221; for &#8220;Critical&#8221;).
Neulasta works. It also retails around $7,000 per shot. An Everest of a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Books than TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Bleak House last night, upon which I shall report on a more lucid day.
I also began The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbary, translated from the original L&#8217;&#233;l&#233;gance du h&#233;risson by Alison Anderson (thank you, Jeff!), which is a pure delight. And I took a running start at Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow by Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Clear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last chemo is over.
Now, we wait three months and do another PET scan. Hope that the cancer is gone for good. Then regular PET scans, spreading out to every six months and then to every year and then, at the five year mark, I&#8217;m proclaimed cured.
Next step: fight the insurance company, which of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dickens and Tourette&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or is little old Smallweed from Dickens&#8217; Bleak House a literary candidate for a Tourette&#8217;s diagnosis?
&#8220;You&#8217;re a brimstone idiot. You&#8217;re a scorpion&#8212;a brimstone scorpion! You&#8217;re a sweltering toad. You&#8217;re a chattering clattering broomstick witch, that ought to be burnt!&#8221; gasps the old man, prostrate in his chair. &#8220;My dear friend, will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon a Marigold &#8211; Jean Ferris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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Last night I finished the delightful YA novel Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris (a birthday present &#8212; thank you, Bev!). This book got bonus points for A) presenting dogs as important characters, B) presenting willingness to work hard as a highly valued character trait, and C) finally cluing the world in to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chaim Potok &#8211; The Book of Lights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this book at a library sale recently, and found it unexpectedly resonant. I&#8217;ve always loved Potok, and I&#8217;m discovering he&#8217;s an author whose work I appreciate more and more as I grow older.
I love the clarity of his prose. I love the solidity of his characters. I love his balance of intellect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madame Bovary &#8211; Gustave Flaubert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Madame Bovary yesterday. (By Gustave Flaubert, sur bien. Originally published 1857. Translated by Geoffrey Wall. Penguin Classics edition.)
The gorgeous cover art for the book was perfectly chosen. The painting (The Woman in Blue by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot) beautifully fits my mental image of Emma Bovary.
As for the book itself, it was wonderful. I especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Cage Match: England vs. France</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (beautifully translated by Geoffrey Wall). I&#8217;m also slowly, slowly working my way through Proust (and have been for, oh, longer than I care to admit).
I have to remark, based on this small sample, that English novels from the 19th century and very early 20th century have a distinctly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Falling on Cedars &#8211; David Guterson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a book junkie, and Mary is my pusher. She lent me the superb Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, which won the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1995.
The book had notes in common with both The Shipping News and 12 Angry Men. It dipped into the lives of many diverse characters, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Omens &#8211; Terry Pratchett &amp; Neil Gaiman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Adele Long</dc:creator>
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Good Omens
by Terry Pratchett &#38; Neil Gaiman
Culver Dow lent me this book, which is an oldie but a goodie that I&#8217;d never read. It was perfect chemo reading, clever and engaging and hilarious. I relished the humorous and completely outdated references to computers, which were archaic in specifics and all-too contemporary in spirit. I also [...]]]></description>
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