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		<title>Notes From a Lapsed Blogger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started up this blog a bit more than two years ago, I envisioned a little space where I could ponder whatever I happened to be reading, hopefully engage in some stimulating discourse, and meet a few new cyber-pals along the way.  At the time, I knew that the only way for this to work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1228&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dog That Made Me Sad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should it be that tragedy is so much more tragic when it happens to our canine cousins?  Take the following brief passage from Ryu Murakami&#8217;s Coin Locker Babies: In one thing, Kiku and Hashi actually envied Milk a little: though he&#8217;d lost his mother early in life just as they had, Milk later got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1216&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genius</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Albert Einstein was a ladies man While he was working on his universal plan. He was making out like Charlie Sheen He was a Genius&#8221; This is one of my favorite lines from Warren Zevon&#8217;s modestly-titled gem &#8220;Genius.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a brilliant song - at once hilarious, scathing, dark, and vulnerable.  And it epitomizes the career, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1194&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011:  The Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people ask me about my favorite book, I often have no idea what to say.  Come up with one book that I like more than any other book that I&#8217;ve ever read?  How am I supposed to do that?  I most certainly have books I like more than others.  There are books I love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1164&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Inside Scientology by Janet Reitman</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Pygmy by Chuck Palahnuik</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck</media:title>
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		<title>2011:  A Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Number of books read in 2011:  54 I&#8217;m quite happy with this number as it met my goal of a book a week with some change left over.  For a year that included a major move, a career shift, and a number of other largish personal events, this is not too shabby. Number of Non-Fiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1152&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://petekarnas.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/the-fierce-imagination-of-haruki-murakami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I get excited about a few books.  Usually a new Stephen King release, a couple of literary works, maybe one or two China-related non-fiction pieces.  But rarely do I get myself worked up years in advance. Haruki Murakami&#8217;s 1Q84 is the exception.  I&#8217;ve been itching to get my grubby paws on this one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1124&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September Mini Reviews</title>
		<link>http://petekarnas.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/september-mini-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting fact:  Most companies, if they promote you and give you a raise, also expect you to do more work. Crazy, but true. As a result, this place has been neglected for the past month as I&#8217;ve gotten settled into my new position and caught up (kinda) on all the fun new excitement that comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1109&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks</media:title>
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		<title>Before the Monsters Declared Their True Nature</title>
		<link>http://petekarnas.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/before-the-monsters-declared-their-true-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near the end of Erik Larson&#8217;s wonderful In the Garden of Beasts, William Dodd, then ambassador to Nazi Germany, composes an official memo to the State Department regarding Hitlers recent spate of violence. Nothing more repulsive than to watch the country of Goethe and Beethoven revert to the barbarism of Stuart England and Bourbon France. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1090&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming of Age on the High Seas</title>
		<link>http://petekarnas.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/coming-of-age-on-the-high-seas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coming-of-age drama  and its conventions are ubiquitous in our culture.  From Moby Dick to Stand By Me to The Wonder Years to The Virgin Suicides and thousands of others, they all share strikingly similar characteristics.  There is the first person narrative, told in flashback, from an older and wiser protagonist.  The requisite group of friends or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1072&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Things I Learned From My Last Post</title>
		<link>http://petekarnas.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/two-things-i-learned-from-my-last-post/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that near the middle of next week, a post appeared on this blog called &#8220;Judging a Book by its Jacket Cover&#8221; which took aim at the jacket photos of two authors, Jesse Ball and Peter Hessler.  Just as quickly, the post disappeared.   Written while in a rotten mood and posted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=petekarnas.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12119915&#038;post=1065&#038;subd=petekarnas&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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