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		<title>Monsoon Summer, by Mitali Perkins</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/05/26/monsoon-summer-by-mitali-perkins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/05/26/monsoon-summer-by-mitali-perkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Jazz runs a business in Berkeley with Steve, her best friend and longtime pine-object. (They sell personalized postcard photos of local landmarks to ex-hippies, which I think is hilarious.) She&#8217;s psyched to spend the summer growing their business and doing some more quality pining over Steve. Until her mom, do-gooder extraordinaire, announces that she has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Beautiful the Ordinary, ed. by Michael Cart</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/01/06/how-beautiful-the-ordinary-ed-by-michael-cart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2010/01/06/how-beautiful-the-ordinary-ed-by-michael-cart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m madly reading Cybils finalists, which I&#8217;m not allowed to review until the winner is announced in February, because our judgely reviews might telegraph the result.  So in the meantime&#8230; catching up on other reviews!

This collection of short stories is subtitled &#8220;Twelve stories of identity,&#8221; and by identity we mean queerness.  I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistik Lake, by Martha Brooks</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/08/08/mistik-lake-by-martha-brooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/08/08/mistik-lake-by-martha-brooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["loop of private despair" novels]]></category>
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Another conference speaker with whom I was unfamiliar.  She&#8217;s also a jazz singer, and gave us a lovely impromptu a capella performance (just reinforcing the sense that I was at a folk festival).
I&#8217;ll admit, I found her book tiresome.  The prose is lovely, I guess, but it was a Woman&#8217;s Sexual Awakening and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Most Excellent Year: a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, &amp; Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/07/10/my-most-excellent-year-a-novel-of-love-mary-poppins-fenway-park-by-steve-kluger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/07/10/my-most-excellent-year-a-novel-of-love-mary-poppins-fenway-park-by-steve-kluger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Three three-dimensional best friends, families that genuinely love each other, disability and homosexuality just tossed in like the normal parts of life they are, and it&#8217;s even set in Boston!  Sold.
The plot is complicated &#8212; there&#8217;s a deaf kid, a theater production, a wacky road trip to New York (does it count as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty, Robin McKinley</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/05/06/beauty-robin-mckinley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/05/06/beauty-robin-mckinley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fairy tales]]></category>
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How did I escape my nerdy fantasy-loving adolescence without ever reading this book?  I&#8217;m not sure, but I intend to correct the oversight in my Twilight-loving students.  Beauty has all the creature-of-the-night broody romance of Edward and Bella, with a little more self-actualization.
You know the story: Beauty&#8217;s dad gets lost in the woods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YA dystopian romance</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/04/11/ya-dystopian-romance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/04/11/ya-dystopian-romance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, this post isn&#8217;t really about the intersection of those things.  (Though if you can think of one, I know a few people who&#8217;d want to read it!)  I&#8217;m just smooshing these two links into one post:
Eldritchhobbit at the LJ community YALitLovers has posted a lengthy list of YA dystopias.  (I&#8217;ve read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things Not Seen, by Andrew Clements</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/16/things-not-seen-by-andrew-clements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2009/01/16/things-not-seen-by-andrew-clements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Bobby Phillips, Ordinary Teenage Guy, wakes up one morning to find that he&#8217;s invisible.  His mom freaks out, his physicist dad is obsessed with figuring out why, but Bobby&#8217;s just trying to live his invisible life.  One day, while slinking around the library, he bumps into a blind girl named Alicia &#8212; who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances, by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/12/17/let-it-snow-three-holiday-romances-by-john-green-maureen-johnson-and-lauren-myracle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/12/17/let-it-snow-three-holiday-romances-by-john-green-maureen-johnson-and-lauren-myracle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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A train gets stuck in a snowstorm in Gracetown, NC (a literally one-Starbucks town, as we&#8217;ll soon see), late on Christmas Eve.*  Revolving around this event are three interconnected tales of teen love, angst, and romping in the snow.  
I&#8217;m not usually a short story fan &#8212; by the time I get into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybils: Prince of Persia, by A. B. Sina, et. al.*</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/12/13/cybils-prince-of-persia-by-a-b-sina-et-al/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/12/13/cybils-prince-of-persia-by-a-b-sina-et-al/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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Boyfriend E, video game fan extraordinaire, caught sight of this lying on my coffee table and cracked up.  He played the original game as a kid, of course (if someone wants to fix that Wikipedia page, by the way, it could apparently use some fixing), and expected from the cover that this would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy birth control</title>
		<link>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/08/19/fantasy-birth-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.parenthetical.net/2008/08/19/fantasy-birth-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book lists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished a wonderful book called Graceling, by Kristin Cashore.  I&#8217;ll wait on the review, because the book doesn&#8217;t come out until October, and I don&#8217;t want you to forget about it because you can&#8217;t read it right now.  (I don&#8217;t have a lending copy, unfortunately.)  But I was talking with [...]]]></description>
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