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		<title>The Republic of Imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Drake University held the 25th Bucksbaum Lecture (it was also the 15th anniversary of the series). The speaker was Dr. Azar Nafisi. This is my first vlog post. Ever. So enjoy. &#38; Please don&#8217;t judge me too harshly (the whole world will know I&#8217;m fawkward now anyway).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=218&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are audiobooks so expensive?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[harry potter audiobooks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my classmates are aware (because I&#8217;ve been complaining A LOT), I&#8217;m attempting to go a full week without music. Starting tomorrow. I don&#8217;t think it would be an exaggeration to say I&#8217;ve been dreading this experiment. I may not survive. But anyway, back to the point. For my week without music, I&#8217;ve decided to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=211&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Aggravating Archetypes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[a flaw in the blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[female book characters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novel archetypes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephanie barron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that I am far from the only person irritated with how women (especially young women) are depicted in vast amounts of literature. I&#8217;m willing to bet I&#8217;m hardly the only one that wants to hit things after especially frustrating passages. I just finished A Flaw in the Blood by Stephanie Barron (literally. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=202&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Literary Heroines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To commemorate my first (newly focused) post, here&#8217;s a top 5 list. (Because I love lists.) tLRB&#8217;s Top 5 Literary Heroines 5. Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) She&#8217;s not fictional, but Satrapi&#8217;s graphic memoir achieves what even some novels struggle to do. She reveals her own very real flaws, but the reader never ceases to cheer for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=167&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Elizabeth</media:title>
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		<title>Big Changes</title>
		<link>http://thelittleredbird.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/big-changes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been a long time since my last post. In that time, I&#8217;ve decided that I want to change the direction of my blog. I will continue to have a music page, because I think listening to music go well with my new focus. I want to write about books now. I don&#8217;t believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=162&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By definition, joy.</title>
		<link>http://thelittleredbird.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/by-definition-joy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the cross between tv and music in Glee.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=150&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You gotta listen</title>
		<link>http://thelittleredbird.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/you-gotta-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short review of the new Rocket Summer single, "You Gotta Believe."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=135&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decisions, decisions.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A comparison of two popular online music services.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=86&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just let it go</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of the free Kill Hannah single on PureVolume.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=70&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s one in all of us.</title>
		<link>http://thelittleredbird.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/theres-one-in-all-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>L. Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of the newly released Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thelittleredbird.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9285951&amp;post=58&amp;subd=thelittleredbird&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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