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		<title>Graph&#8230; of DOOM</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/03/07/graph-of-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One last piece of dystopiana: Research Reveals That Apocalyptic Stories Changed Dramatically 20 Years Ago.
Chanda Phelan wrote this article based on her thesis, for which she looked at a ton of apocalyptic literature from 1826 to 2007 and charted the nature of the apocalypse. Click the image at the top of the article for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fat Vampire, by Adam Rex</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/03/07/fat-vampire-by-adam-rex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/03/07/fat-vampire-by-adam-rex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Ah, vampires. Sexy, powerful, immortal vampires. What if you achieved immortality at your dorkiest? Would you be stuck an awkward high school boy forever?
While we&#8217;re asking questions, what if you were sick to death of vampires, but the author of The True Meaning of Smekday, one of the most brilliant pieces of children&#8217;s fiction in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dystop-a-rama</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/26/dystop-a-rama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Musing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian fiction!  It&#8217;s: a) pretty much all I read as an adolescent, b) what made the hippie I am today, c) ridiculously popular all of a sudden in YA lit, or d) all of the above?
D, obviously.  The YA lit world is exploding with talk of dystopias.  This article from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing tabs (about food and education)</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/25/closing-tabs-about-food-and-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/25/closing-tabs-about-food-and-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. No Brownies at Bake Sales, but Doritos May Be O.K. raised my blood pressure way more than a whole plate of brownies (mmm&#8230; brownies): 

Nine months after effectively banning most fund-raising food sales in city schools, a city panel will vote Wednesday on an amended regulation that will allow student groups to sell items [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, by Francisco X. Stork</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/24/the-last-summer-of-the-death-warriors-by-francisco-x-stork/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/24/the-last-summer-of-the-death-warriors-by-francisco-x-stork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dying Kid Yoda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the next book by the author of Marcelo in the Real World.  I wanted to adore this as much as I adored Marcelo, but it didn&#8217;t quite come together for me.
Pancho is a troubled young man with one goal: to avenge the mysterious death of his sister.  She was his legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make my kids read your favorites!</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/23/make-my-kids-read-your-favorites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a chance for you, my friends and readers, to tell my kids what to read: what book do you remember most fondly from your 6th-8th grade years?  Get your suggestion to me by Thursday night and I&#8217;ll probably put it on my school&#8217;s middle school summer reading list!  (I still want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybils reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/18/cybils-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/18/cybils-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Now that the Cybils winners are all official &#8216;n stuff, I can review the finalists from the Middle Grade Fantasy &#038; Science Fiction category.  Here they are, in one speedy blowout:

          

The Prince of Fenway Park, Julianna Baggott
Check this premise, people: the famous Curse on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change: blame vs. responsibility</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/16/climate-change-blame-vs-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/16/climate-change-blame-vs-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.parenthetical.net/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Snowfall in America brings with it, inevitably, a blizzard of &#8220;jokes&#8221; about the alleged absurdity of global warming. All of these jokes have two things in common: 1) they mention Al Gore, and 2) they&#8217;re not actually funny.

So begins the ever-brilliant Slacktivist&#8217;s recent post about the emphasis on blame in the climate change debate: if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on books in libraries</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/16/more-on-books-in-libraries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/16/more-on-books-in-libraries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on last week&#8217;s post about books in libraries&#8230; the NYTimes Room for Debate blog posted some of the comments from students.  Most didn&#8217;t say much new, but here are a couple of thoughts I liked:
One signed just &#8220;a thought&#8221;:

Also, books (or any other printed material) cannot be changed by any means without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybils winners!</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/14/cybils-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/02/14/cybils-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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For the last month I&#8217;ve been reading middle grade fantasy &#038; science fiction and discussing it with my fellow panelists, but I couldn&#8217;t blog about any of it.  Now the winners are official!  Yay!
Our Middle Grade F &#038; SF winner is a sequel, Dreamdark: Silksinger by Laini Taylor.  I don&#8217;t really do [...]]]></description>
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