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		<title>book reviews: simple sci fi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All my great intentions for reading in 2026 have manifested in the way of man whose eyes are too big for his stomach. In my case, my reading appetite has bitten off a few large portions and I find myself already well into March and not having completed much of anything. It is not for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>book reviews: on down the river</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[September may be the end of summer reads, but no doubt that I am still trudging through a reading list longer than I care to admit. My lack of completed tomes this last few weeks has less to do with the quantity of reading I am going and more to do with my ability to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>book reviews: no rules</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Barely twenty four hours after I finished reading Dust (which I reviewed in a post now barely a day old) I finished yet another thick tome of a novel which I had been reading concurrently: the second book of the Hyperion Cantos. There are no rules about all this reading books and writing reviews, are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>book reviews: rainy spring</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 23:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ugh. I didn&#8217;t read as much as I should have through the winter, and yet now, maybe only because I&#8217;m still riding the high of enjoying my new ebook reader, I have been power walking through a whole collection of books. That said, very little planning has gone into my May reads. I have very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>book reviews: may the forth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 03:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[(&#8230;be with you!) It&#8217;s Star Wars day and I haven&#8217;t done much of anything intergalactic, but I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Worse than my neglect of Star Wars, I checked out a bunch of library books and in such a flurry that a couple have expired before I even got part [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just posted about my newfound enjoyment of walking and reading and so I figured now may be as good as time as any to start doing some light logging of the books I’ve been reading while out and about. Is it any surprise that two of those books are literally books about walking? A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I'm on my second novel of the project and so far I'm two for two on some very misogynistic protagonist characters and a solid one hundred percent for some cringe-worthy bits of colonial-bent racism. Advice?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>the three buck book club</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 01:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It only makes sense that a guy who cooks on cast iron, spends time in the outdoors and enjoys cooking clean, simple food would also be into vintage books, right? I decided that I want to read more in 2023. I want do do a lot of things in 2023, but reading is something that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2021 04:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Learning by doing. It can work, but at some point a guy needs to look to some other sources for guidance and advice. Like, say&#8230; a book (or ten.) What was the best anything that you read in 2021? As much as I&#8217;ve taken to the internets this past year in an attempt to hone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Book: Handbook of the Canadian Rockies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Foodie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t buy many paper books these days, so I caught even myself off guard when I dropped fifty bucks on this doorstop-grade loaf while on vacation over the summer, and in a souvenir store no less. We had spent the day in the wilderness and flipping through the pages it caught the dangling threads [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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