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		<title>The Anatomy of Wings by Karen Foxlee: Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen Foxlee’s is a voice of confident originality.  She was named Best Emerging Author  in the 2006 Queensland Premier’s Awards and The Anatomy of Wings shows that the judges spotted a winner. Despite having enough hooks and lures to make &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-anatomy-of-wings-by-karen-foxlee-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1141&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Writer Wrote ANSWER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s WWW was:- She gave me her factual tone, her facial bones, her will, not her beautiful voice but her straightness and her clarity. From his humble beginnings on the North Coast of New South Wales to the University &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/which-writer-wrote-answer-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1135&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Writer Wrote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s WWW comes from one of Australia’s most outstanding and influential poets (and a particular favourite of mine). See if you can guess who wrote it and check in on Sunday for the answer. She gave me her factual &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/which-writer-wrote-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1128&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ransom by David Malouf: Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening pages of David Malouf’s Ransom had me gasping for breath, mesmerised by the poetic language, lulled by the music of the words, wooed by a seductive dance. Based on one of the earliest poems of Western Literature, Homer’s &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/ransom-by-david-malouf-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1109&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Writer Wrote ANSWER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of a mother.  But then, what did I know about mothers anyway?  The quote is from Alva’s Boy: An unsentimental memoir by &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/which-writer-wrote-answer-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1104&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which Writer Wrote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us will be feeling refreshed and sharp from the holidays so there are no clues for this week&#8217;s WWW. I weighed up these women in my life and decided that none of them would fill the role of &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/which-writer-wrote-6/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1098&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising My Voice by Malalai Joya: Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I like to review fiction; short stories and novels, with a predilection for anything Australian. So it is an extreme departure for me to feel impelled to review Raising my Voice by Malalai Joya (co-written by Derrick O’Keefe*).  Subtitled, &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/raising-my-voice-by-malalai-joya-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1086&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top of the Sixties by David Ayres: Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top of the Sixties is a fourteen-story collection, much of which – one suspects – is highly autobiographical.  The young band member, who makes a decision to abandon his guitar-playing dreams in favour of a more mainstream day-job kind of &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/top-of-the-sixties-by-david-ayres-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1074&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologise for my slackness over the Christmas period.  I have had limited internet access (not to mention lazy brain cells) and, whilst I have enjoyed the break, I am keen to get back into my writing world. Days of &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/goodbye-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1071&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riding the Trains in Japan by Patrick Holland: Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenlee thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Patrick Holland’s author site Riding the Trains in Japan is described as “a book of travel essays encompassing Japan, Vietnam and China”, a phrase that doesn’t do justice to his latest work.  Adding that the essays also encompass “imaginative and &#8230; <a href="http://karenleethompson.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/riding-the-trains-in-japan-by-patrick-holland-book-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=karenleethompson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6681624&amp;post=1060&amp;subd=karenleethompson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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