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		<title>The Pact</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost a week ago I finished The Pact by Jodi Picoult.  I was much happier with the ending of this book.  There were still no winners, but it didn&#8217;t end with the outright tragedies as the other two books I&#8217;ve read by her.  I am giving this one a 7.5.  I guess at some point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=143&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handle With Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I finished Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult Friday night.  I have to say that I was not surprised by the ending as the way the story was written, I kind of expected it.  I have rated this book a 7 on the 10-point scale since it was so well written and the WHN [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=118&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Julie and Julia and Other Books&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My take on Julie and Julia (the book), Water Witches by Christopher Bohjalian, The Last Child by John Hart, and Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=114&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books</title>
		<link>http://sstarr.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S Starr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to work books back in my life again, and wanted to share some of my more recent reads.  I will try to let you know of the good ones as I read them.  Besides Water for Elephants that I spoke about in my previous post, here are some of the books I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=110&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Water for Elephants&#8221; by Sara Gruen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I finished Water for Elephants.  It was a very quick and satisfying read.  The story opened up with the main character, Jacob, in a nursing home with flashbacks to his days in a train circus.  I was especially satisfied with the ending.  It didn’t end exactly as I expected, but it was a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=107&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Head Cold from Hell</title>
		<link>http://sstarr.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/head-cold-from-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S Starr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been suffering a week now from this horrible head cold.  I have had a sinus infection, sore throat, and a lot of pressure on my ears.  You would think that a week after symptoms presented I would be better&#8230; but no.  The doctor said my ears may have pressure for a couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=103&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cell Phones and Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://sstarr.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/cell-phones-and-alzheimers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S Starr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cell Phone Radiation Can Prevent, Reverse Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8230;in Mice Quite an interesting article&#8230;  Especially since no more than 10 years ago, everyone was worried about cell phones creating brain tumors.  One question I have, though.  With the ratio of cell phone to brain size, would humans need a cell phone bigger than our bodies to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=98&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Really?  Having Sex during Church???</title>
		<link>http://sstarr.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/really-having-sex-during-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S Starr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN —  Police in southern Germany say an officer has been suspended from duty after allegedly having sex in a Catholic church during a service.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstarr.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4192597&amp;post=90&amp;subd=sstarr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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