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	<title>Buffy Holt &#187; books</title>
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		<title>the girl who would speak for the dead. by paul elwork.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of being introduced to author Paul Elwork whose debut novel The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead (Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin Group) was released in March. The title and cover are good and gothic and more than enough to pull you in &#8211; but it&#8217;s the story that keeps you [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/05/03/the-girl-who-would-speak-for-the-dead-by-paul-elwork/' addthis:title='the girl who would speak for the dead. by paul elwork.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>jane eyre, the movie.  and this silly limited release.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/04/25/jane-eyre-the-movie-and-this-silly-limited-release/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane (Mia Wasikowska) and Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender) I am, quite frankly, aghast that the movie Jane Eyre is only on limited release &#8211; 300 theatres nationwide, or something ridiculous like that. I never was much a fan of Jane Austen. I read her entire library in middle school, because that&#8217;s what you do when [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/04/25/jane-eyre-the-movie-and-this-silly-limited-release/' addthis:title='jane eyre, the movie.  and this silly limited release.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>submarine. comfortable shoes.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/03/22/submarine-comfortable-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macaroni and Cheese and Richard Ayoade. The only things in the world that consistently help me beat the blues. The Euro&#8217;s all very blasé about the former, but the latter he loves &#8211; especially since the trailers for Submarine, Ayoade&#8217;s directorial feature debut, started surfacing. It&#8217;s all very Jean-Luc Godard and, you know, it&#8217;s Moss, [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/03/22/submarine-comfortable-shoes/' addthis:title='submarine. comfortable shoes.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>and johnny cash on the radio.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/02/25/and-johnny-cash-on-the-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/?p=3925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[.99 each at the Goodwill After sleeping vertically for most of the week, I managed to get all horizontal last night. And this morning. And this afternoon. I&#8217;ve kipped more in the past 24 hours than I have in the past 2 weeks. Now I&#8217;m all Greenwich Mean and groggy and trying to finish the [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/02/25/and-johnny-cash-on-the-radio/' addthis:title='and johnny cash on the radio.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>arabian nights</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/02/15/arabian-nights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/?p=3867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There use to be a massive Borders bookstore just outside of Manchester. The Euro and I would spend rainy Saturdays there drinking coffee and reading American Magazines. It&#8217;s sunnier here (72degrees on Friday!) and more difficult to justify a day indoors but we manage to do it now and then. A few weeks ago we [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/02/15/arabian-nights/' addthis:title='arabian nights' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>fear and hp lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/20/hp-lovecraft-fear-of-the-unknown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is Fear of the Unknown. &#8211; H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction. His guiding literary principle was what he termed &#8220;cosmic horror&#8221;, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/20/hp-lovecraft-fear-of-the-unknown/' addthis:title='fear and hp lovecraft' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>a little flesh. a little breath. aurelius.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/16/marcus-aurelius-meditations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/16/marcus-aurelius-meditations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buffy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the writings of Marcus Aurelius. Even my mother, not a fan of stoicism, calls him heavy. I own four copies of his meditations and can&#8217;t really justify buying another. But I&#8217;m tempted because The Puffin is doing beautiful things with paperbacks these days.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/16/marcus-aurelius-meditations/' addthis:title='a little flesh. a little breath. aurelius.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>saroyanesque</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/05/saroyanesque/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to learn to breathe deeply; really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. - William Saroyan, Advice to a Young Writer On Christmas Eve I received a parcel [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/05/saroyanesque/' addthis:title='saroyanesque' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>mark twain.  the trilogy.</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/02/mark-twain-the-trilogy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. &#8211; Mark Twain There&#8217;s a photo of me unwrapping Christmas presents, hands to head, squealing in excitement. I remember being tickled to death at my gifts but if The Euro had not caught it on camera I would have sworn he exaggerated. In addition to [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2011/01/02/mark-twain-the-trilogy/' addthis:title='mark twain.  the trilogy.' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>escorting elizabeth edwards</title>
		<link>http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/12/12/escorting-elizabeth-edwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Edwards had been abandoned at a venue by her handlers and needed an escort. One of the event organizers caught me rummaging through the craft service, otherwise idle, and asked if I would be so kind &#8211; I certainly would. Edwards didn&#8217;t look sixty. Or sick. And more than anything, I remember being taken [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.buffyholt.com/blog/2010/12/12/escorting-elizabeth-edwards/' addthis:title='escorting elizabeth edwards' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>]]></description>
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