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		<title>Rampant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think this book and story line could have a lot of potential as a young adult novel and future fantasy series but I think it ended up being too big and ambitious for one book. It also ended up losing a lot by going for the easy way out in characterization and in trying too hard to cater to a teen audience.

In this story poor Astrid has to switch gears pretty hard to go from a typical teenage girl seriously considering letting a guy sleep with her to get asked to the prom to having him be almost murdered by a renegade unicorn (a being that, until that moment, Astrid had firmly believed was a myth). As a result Astrid, a virgin from a bloodline of unicorn hunters, gets sent abroad to a special cloister for training in becoming a fearsome hunter of these bloodthirsty, semi-intelligent beasts. Unfortunately Astrid does not want to become a unicorn hunter and finds out that the cloisters contain more secrets than answers and that perhaps the world of unicorn hunting is not all that it seems.]]></description>
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		<title>Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the horrific events in volume 3 the Elric brothers spend most of volume 4 recovering from their wounds whether physical, mental or emotional. Laboratory 5 is destroyed and in its aftermath Ed is hospitalized with serious wounds and Al is left reeling from the words of doubt planted by Barry the Chopper. Winry also makes another appearance to fix Ed's auto-mail arm with the missing bolt. Both brothers have time to reflect on their actions both past and present and in some cases are given a bit of a wake call about them.]]></description>
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		<title>Charity Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While this book may start off slow and shaky, by the end Heyer has her footing again and the plot and characters sparkle. In <i>Charity Girl</i> a Viscount named Desford meets a young woman named Charity, "Cherry" for short, hiding away upstairs at a ball. She was foisted off on these relatives by an absent father and is treated more like glorified help then a poor relation in need. Naturally she ends up running away to London in a search for her grandfather. Desford finds her on the road to London and, after hearing her story, decides she would be better off with her grandfather and so gives her a lift. Unfortunately they arrive in London just to discover that her grandfather is out in the country and no one knows where or when he will be back.]]></description>
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		<title>Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Volume 3 has the Elric brothers finally arrive in their hometown to visit their mechanic Winry Rockbell. Their bodyguard Alexander Louis Armstrong learns along with us more details about the brothers' past and how they came to lose their limbs, gain their new metal bodies and decide to join the military and never turn back. It's nice to finally get some more back story on the main characters and also find out just how committed they are to their present course.]]></description>
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		<title>The Chosen One</title>
		<link>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/the-chosen-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This book addresses a very powerful and deeply controversial subject and in a surprisingly strong, vivid and heart breaking way for a YA novel. I think this book exemplifies one of YA's true strengths in that way. Kyra is a young girl growing up in a remote compound belonging to a polygamist sect. She has grown up in a family with one father and three mothers and now has twenty siblings with two more on the way. She has known no other life and in fact finding out about other ways of life is next to impossible and is considered a sin. By chance Kyra discovers a mobile library and that discovery, along with a library card, opens up fresh new horizons for her and she discovers a world beyond the compound's barbed wire fences and brutal attitudes towards freedom and independent thought.]]></description>
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		<title>Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 2</title>
		<link>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volume 2 picks up right where volume 1 left off, with Roy Mustang "owing one" to Ed for saving the general on the train. In return Mustang introduces Ed to Shou Tucker, the "Sewing-Life Alchemist". Ed is branching out in all directions searching for a way to restore his body and that of his brother. Unfortunately who he ends up meeting is a scientist who is willing to use any means to achieve his ends. Ed and Al have some hard lessons to learn about their own continued powerlessness and about the difference between sacrificing others for your ends, and sacrificing yourself. I thought this was a very powerful and eerie part of the series, and of course very sad.]]></description>
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		<title>The Chalice and The Blade</title>
		<link>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/the-chalice-and-the-blade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 13:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to read this book. A lot of what I read in its pages changed my entire worldview and caused me to reevaluate the history of the world as I knew it through a feminist lense and to change how I felt and thought about that history. There was a lot in this book that I didn't completely agree with but there were many parts that I was glad to have read and have reached a deeper and richer understanding of the world because of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 1</title>
		<link>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/fullmetal-alchemist-volume-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For fans of the anime, this series is a must read. First off, the anime was based on this manga series. The original anime split off in development pretty early on and ended some time ago. For those of you disappointed in that ending you simply must read this manga, and watch the new Brotherhood anime which follows it much more closely. The storyline is so much better and this is one of those cases where the book is ten times better than anything you have seen on screen.

For those of you unfamiliar with the story Fullmetal Alchemist turns out to be an engaging series set in the early 1900's about a paranormal world where alchemy is real and its effects on the world and artifacts that increase its power are at once magical and beautiful, sinister and deadly. Transforming something from a broken to a fixed state is handy, transforming something into a grotesque pantomime of what it should be, not so much.

The opening to this book is a shock that makes you sit up and take notice. They start you right at the moment that Ed discovers that he is missing his leg (no clean cut, either) and that his brother is gone. It very much sets the tone for the rest of the book, and the series! Very dark and frightening with many hard lessons to be learned and sacrifices that need to be made to set things right after this very gruesome beginning. Right at the end of that first page the book snaps to several years later and you have to read on to find out why Ed and Al are the way they are and what exactly made them that way. Definitely a page turner to find out more about these characters and the lives they have been forced to lead since that very disastrous decision they made as children. ]]></description>
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		<title>Love Begins In Winter</title>
		<link>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/reviews/love-begins-in-winter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This turned out to be a wonderful collection of uplifting stories about love, forgiveness, romance, family and hope. Each short story contained a character that had either given up hope or was at a crossroads in their life and had to make a decision or take a leap of faith or sometimes just open their eyes to see the love that was all around them and in some cases had been all along. They were all written wonderfully, very literary and lyrical with wonderful twists and turns that were at once completely surprising and then after some thought completely expected.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Twitter Link Round-Up: April 11th-17th</title>
		<link>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/chatter/weekly-twitter-link-round-up-april-11th-17th/</link>
		<comments>http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/chatter/weekly-twitter-link-round-up-april-11th-17th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bitsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fabula.exlibrisbitsy.com/?p=1641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I'm a week behind, so here are the links from two weeks ago and the one link I tweeted last week. More on vampires and their ethics, Fairy tales and their shocking roots, laws you didn't know you were breaking (you naughty book blogger you!), and tips true for anyone looking to be taken seriously as a professional online but set out for authors in particular. Enjoy!]]></description>
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