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		<title>Daylife Image Tracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>State of reading in list form</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books I&#8217;ve finished since the last time I made a reading update. I&#8217;ll be making reviews for nos. 2-4, uh, soon-ish: 1. The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru 2. To Play the Fool by Laurie R. King 3. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 4. Lord Peter by Dorothy L. Sayers (complete collection of Peter Wimsey [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=37&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My reading update will come, um, later. This one first. I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about Britain lately, or at least novels set in Britain and its former colonies. The Impressionist traces the life of Pran Nath, boy with British and Indian blood, with his attempts to survive the societies that are alternately seduced and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=35&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compartmentalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a horrendous backlog of things to post and will do so after the Manila International Book Fair. For those who care to know, I&#8217;m participating as a member of the Read or Die Book Club in a program called Ang Bagong Libro. We&#8217;re neck-deep in on sale booths there, come and join us. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=34&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Do List:</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Write my review for Iain Bank&#8217;s Complicity 2. Finish reading Hari Kunzru&#8217;s The Impressionist 3. Complete my presentation for the NWA Convention. 4. Start flagellating myself for agreeing to make a paper on Rio Alma and read it to HIS FACE. Oh, and if people are interested in my review of Abner Mercado&#8217;s Sa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=32&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This novel succeeds in becoming both hilarious and sinister, a piece of social commentary disguised as an exercise in WTF. It begins with the story of an unemployed girl who gets hired in an exclusive Parisian perfume store by giving sexual favors to the shop director. She is then subjected to various acts of perversion by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=29&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>poetry post</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first one here and a partial explanation of my blog title. Marginalia by Billy Collins Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just get my hands on you, Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O&#8217;Brien, they seem to say, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=28&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Armchair Traveler &#8211; Challenge List</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day late, but I&#8217;m still in. The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru (India, Britain, etc.) The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy (Los Angeles) The Far Side of the World (Aubrey/Maturin novel), Patrick O&#8217;Brian (Malta, Atlantic Ocean, South America) Your Blues Ain&#8217;t Like Mine, Bebe Moore Campbell (Mississippi) The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (future-Shanghai, China) The Reader, Bernhard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=27&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Y Halo Thar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good News: I&#8217;ve finished three books since Sunday: Sa Bubungan ng Mundo by Abner P. Mercado, Complicity by Iain Banks and Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq. Bad News: I can&#8217;t be arsed to go and make proper reviews for each one. *throws a tantrum* Watch me loiter around the Intarwebs looking for things to post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=25&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books Read So Far</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s about time for me to list down the books I&#8217;ve read halfway through 2007. I&#8217;m slightly embarrassed about my low output. I need to do something to speed things up. Anyway, here they are: Man Without Qualities vol. 1 &#8211; Robert Musil The Hound of the Baskervilles &#8211; Arthur Conan Doyle Billiards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tropicalmarginalia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1202798&amp;post=17&amp;subd=tropicalmarginalia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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