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		<title>Lord Of The Flies By William Golding &#8211; A Hard Look At Who We Are</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2012/02/03/lord-of-the-flies-by-william-golding-a-hard-look-at-who-we-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s not dissect Lord of the Flies in an academic style.  I am sure that has been done professionally over and over for decades.  Some studied this book in school.  As for me, when I first saw the title many years ago, I mistook it to be related to Lord of the Ring.  Soon I found out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of My Melancholy Whores By Gabriel García Márquez</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2012/01/12/memories-of-my-melancholy-whores-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book, I have read twice.  After &#8220;My Cousin Rachel&#8220;, I wanted to keep up with the soul nourishing reading spree.  I ransacked my book collection, even scanned through the book list according to Harold Bloom&#8217;s Western Canon for inspiration.  I have read &#8220;Memories of My Melancholy Whores&#8221; once, possibly in the year of 2004.  I wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Cousin Rachel By Daphne Du Maurier &#8211; Words Of The &#8217;50s Still Haunt</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2012/01/10/my-cousin-rachel-by-daphne-du-maurier-words-of-the-50s-still-haunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I normally do not read books that are written before I was born.  I mean, way before I was born.  This book &#8220;My Cousin Rachel&#8221; was published in 1951.  I cannot even relate to what the world was like back then.  Inside a library, deflated by my return of a book that I was not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1Q84 By By Haruki Murakami &#8211; A Magical Read</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/12/04/1q84-by-by-haruki-murakami-a-magical-read/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/12/04/1q84-by-by-haruki-murakami-a-magical-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1Q84 is the 10th Murakami book that I have read.  There are similarities when compared to The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.  It is divided into three books that span across three consecutive time periods.  Each chapter is named using a phrase found inside that chapter. 1Q84 further explores the concept of free will versus destiny and fate. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wind-up Bird Chronicle By Haruki Murakami &#8211; So Unreal, So Mesmerizing</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/11/06/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-by-haruki-murakami-so-unreal-so-mesmerizing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The paperback version of &#8220;The Wind-up Bird Chronicle&#8221; is more than 600 pages long.  It sat inside my bookshelf for a long time because I was not sure if I have the patience to digest such a mightily thick book (to me that is).  I brought it along anyway for my trip to Hong Kong.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrall: Twilight Of The Aspects By Christie Golden &#8211; Powerful, And Moving</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After I have finished reading Thrall in Hong Kong, I said to Cynthia, &#8220;Drop everything you are reading now and start to read this!&#8221;  It is that good.  Rewind to the day when we were at the airport.  On several occasions, I struggled if I shall read another book written by Christie Golden.  Price is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Quotes From &#8220;Aleph&#8221; By Paulo Coelho</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/10/22/my-favorite-quotes-from-aleph-by-paulo-coelho/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/10/22/my-favorite-quotes-from-aleph-by-paulo-coelho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy reading Paulo Coelho&#8217;s novels.  They are always inspirational.  Or simply put &#8211; food for the soul.  To be frank, I enjoy reading some of his earlier works better than his recent ones.  Hence my expectation for &#8220;Aleph&#8221; was not that high.  This book surprises me on several fronts.  First, it is quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Afterthought: El Búho Que No Podía Ulular</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/07/04/an-afterthought-el-buho-que-no-podia-ulular/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/07/04/an-afterthought-el-buho-que-no-podia-ulular/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uff.  Finalmente, I have read a story written in Spanish (just yesterday).  Ironically, it is not as Spanish as I would have expected.  It is a story of an owl banished from his own kind and has ended up being lectured by the ghost of Benjamin Franklin together with the rest of the founding fathers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel Iris By Yoko Ogawa &#8211; Beautifully Ugly, Dark And Shocking</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/06/19/hotel-iris-by-yoko-ogawa-beautifully-ugly-dark-and-shocking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/06/19/hotel-iris-by-yoko-ogawa-beautifully-ugly-dark-and-shocking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not suppose what Ogawa wrote is unrealistic.  At times, we read in the news about some women who are victims of domestic violence but yet, they have a tendency to return to the very same man who bestows such violence upon them.  I have read the story of Natascha Kampusch and had a glimpse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance By Haruki Murakami</title>
		<link>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/06/05/a-wild-sheep-chase-and-dance-dance-dance-by-haruki-murakami/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wilfridwong.com/2011/06/05/a-wild-sheep-chase-and-dance-dance-dance-by-haruki-murakami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wilfrid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By pure chance, I bought both &#8220;A Wild Sheep Chase&#8221; and &#8220;Dance Dance Dance&#8221; in HMV during sales on the same day.  Also by pure chance, one of my blogger friend, JoV, once dropped a comment here implying that the stories of these two books are linked.  So before I headed to my holiday, I [...]]]></description>
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