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	<title>Normality Restored &#187; Books</title>
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		<title>I deal best with stress by ignoring it.</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2010/07/28/i-deal-best-with-stress-by-ignoring-it</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2010/07/28/i-deal-best-with-stress-by-ignoring-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts of the Written Persuasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bart Ehrman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I could write about how just two weeks ago my wife, out of the blue, got offered her dream job in Seattle (we currently live in So. Cal., for those keeping score) and now we are moving next week.  I could go &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2010/07/28/i-deal-best-with-stress-by-ignoring-it">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible Shrinking Man</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/12/the-incredible-shrinking-man</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/12/the-incredible-shrinking-man#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Composition</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heroism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incredible Shrinking Man]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.normalityrestored.com/?p=2297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“A hero is a man who does what he can” – Romain Rolland I’ll take the opportunity to use this week’s theme as a means to write about a great classic that I recently read for the first time. “The &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/12/the-incredible-shrinking-man">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lev Grossman&#8217;s &#8220;The Magicians,&#8221; or More Inventiveness than I Have</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/03/lev-grossmans-the-magicians-or-more-inventiveness-than-i-have</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/03/lev-grossmans-the-magicians-or-more-inventiveness-than-i-have#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kilian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lev Grossman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Magicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things Change Things Stay the Same]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have long been aware of who Lev Grossman was, author of the bestselling novel The Codex, and general &#8220;nerd&#8221; blogger for Time, he seems to have, essentially, the life I desire. That said, I had not read any of &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/03/lev-grossmans-the-magicians-or-more-inventiveness-than-i-have">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Told There is a Storm, and That It May or May Not Be Gathering</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/03/im-told-there-is-a-storm-and-that-it-may-or-may-not-be-gathering</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/03/im-told-there-is-a-storm-and-that-it-may-or-may-not-be-gathering#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought Knife of Dreams the day it came out in 2005.  Even though I was in graduate school, and should have been reading my homework, I finished the book in just a few days.  I had been waiting for &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/11/03/im-told-there-is-a-storm-and-that-it-may-or-may-not-be-gathering">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Staying Power of a Never-Ending Story</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/10/24/the-staying-power-of-a-never-ending-story</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/10/24/the-staying-power-of-a-never-ending-story#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Composition</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gadgetry/Gear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D. Composition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The NeverEnding Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things Change Things Stay the Same]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A person’s memories are powerful things. The naturality of aging and maturing forces us into a constant state of change. I read something once about how close to an illusion all of life (as we know it) is. It stated &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/10/24/the-staying-power-of-a-never-ending-story">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic &amp; Mystery of Miss A.K.</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/10/01/the-magic-mystery-of-miss-ak</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/10/01/the-magic-mystery-of-miss-ak#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D. Composition</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andromeda Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[D. Composition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Dork]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.normalityrestored.com/?p=2193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Portman has a thing for names. In his first released book, the delightful “King Dork”, the protagonist is a teen named Tom Henderson, although I don’t think he is called this even once in the whole book. Tom’s one-of-a-kind &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/10/01/the-magic-mystery-of-miss-ak">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To War Against The Decline Of His Meridian</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/29/to-war-against-the-decline-of-his-meridian</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/29/to-war-against-the-decline-of-his-meridian#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustardseed Cochrane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In The West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bring the Pain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mustardseed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mustardseed Cochrane]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blood Meridian could have been nothing more than a catalog of violence, rather than a terrifying meditation on the atrocities committed by the Glanton Gang. Save for one, its characters revel in the murders they commit, and while writer Cormac &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/29/to-war-against-the-decline-of-his-meridian">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I am NOT KILIAN, or A Rambling, Non-Sensical Review of I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/07/i-am-not-kilian-or-a-rambling-non-sensical-review-of-i-am-not-sidney-poitier-by-percival-everett</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/07/i-am-not-kilian-or-a-rambling-non-sensical-review-of-i-am-not-sidney-poitier-by-percival-everett#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[I Am Not Sidney Poitier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kilian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Percival Everett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Under the Radar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have mentioned Percival Everett on the ol&#8217; NR before. Once in passing and, more recently, to demonstrate the difference between good fiction writing and not so good fiction writing. I write this current post as an attempt to &#8220;review&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/07/i-am-not-kilian-or-a-rambling-non-sensical-review-of-i-am-not-sidney-poitier-by-percival-everett">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Instantly Celestial&#8230;Richard Garfinkle&#8217;s Fiction of Imagination</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/07/instantly-celestialrichard-garfinkles-fiction-of-imagination</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/07/instantly-celestialrichard-garfinkles-fiction-of-imagination#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[All of an Instant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celestial Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kilian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Garfinkle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Under the Radar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I first discovered Richard Garfinkle whilst browsing the Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror section of Aardvark Books (back in the days of yore, when I still lived in San Francisco, circa 2004).  The cover you see to the left piqued my interest.  I routinely &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/08/07/instantly-celestialrichard-garfinkles-fiction-of-imagination">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Plea for Restraint&#8230;Hollywood, Leave This One Alone</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/31/a-plea-for-restrainthollywood-leave-this-one-alone</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/31/a-plea-for-restrainthollywood-leave-this-one-alone#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phantom Tollbooth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was kid&#8230;other than the aformentioned love of GI Joe, my other main source of entertainment came from sports; baseball and soccer, specifically.  Whenever I had a book report due, I would make my dad take me to the &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/31/a-plea-for-restrainthollywood-leave-this-one-alone">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The “Wheel of Time” Keeps on Turning</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/31/the-%e2%80%9cwheel-of-time%e2%80%9d-keeps-on-turning</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/31/the-%e2%80%9cwheel-of-time%e2%80%9d-keeps-on-turning#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Sanderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Jordan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stoker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here we go. This week on Normality Restored we are talking about our raped childhoods. In my case it is not so much my raped childhood, as my raped mid-teens to early twenties. I began to read Robert Jordan’s &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/31/the-%e2%80%9cwheel-of-time%e2%80%9d-keeps-on-turning">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Read This Late at Night, or a Review of &#8220;The Strain&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/21/read-this-late-at-night-or-a-review-of-the-strain</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/21/read-this-late-at-night-or-a-review-of-the-strain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Hogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guillermo Del Toro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Strain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll just start by saying that what follows includes a boatload of spoilers. In considering this book, however, I can&#8217;t think of a way in which to review it that doesn&#8217;t include spoilers, so there you are. Well, OK, if &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/21/read-this-late-at-night-or-a-review-of-the-strain">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bifrost Toll Up Ahead: $.75</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2009/07/03/bifrost-toll-up-ahead-75</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustardseed Cochrane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dandelion Wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps and Legends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Chabon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mustardseed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phillip Pullman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prose Edda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Bradbury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snorri Sturluson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Shakespeare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
