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		<title>A Brief Unauthorized Personal History of Facebook – What&#8217;s it to You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would have said I first heard about Facebook late in the last century, say 1996 – it seems that long ago. But I refreshed my memory with a startling fact – it was 2004 when it got started at Harvard University by that hoodie fellow and some “friends”. Thanks to the “Social Network” movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cutting for Stone: a novel&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Cutting for Stone: a novel“ by Abraham Verghese  Vintage Canada Edition, 2010, 667 pages + bibliography Recently a reader responded to one of my book reviews with a comment that first scared me half to death and then embarrassed me to the same point: “Once again,” this person wrote, “your review of &#8216;an incredibly good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elainezimbel.com/cutting-for-stone-a-novel</link>
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		<title>No Thank You, VIARAIL Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ooops!  Booked a round trip ticket Montreal/Toronto online and had a big surprise.  First, it seemed more complicated than usual, more clicks-what ifs, how about this and that and that.  Finally got the right price at the right time, closed the deal, and reported the details to family in Toronto later the same day.  Leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Visit From the Goon Squad&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“A Visit From the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2010, 274 pages It’s an extraordinary book about ordinary people in which you may very well conclude that “ordinary people” is a meaningless term.  In the hands of a truly extraordinary writer, like Jennifer Egan, such creatures do not exist. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“What Maisie Knew” by Henry James</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I am tempted to add, “And when she knew it”), Penguin Edition, 1966, text taken from the New York edition (1909),  248 pages. Originally published by Charles Scribner &#38; Co. in 1897, this is an extraordinary book which deftly manages the near-impossible &#8211; it tells, with the voice of an adult, a child’s perceptions, carefully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Viarail Canada!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Important Person Customer Care Department Viarail Canada Dear Ms/Mr…… I know your name!  I would like very much to publish it because you have been so kind, so respectful, so generous to me.  However, since this behaviour is so rare in the annals of corporate greed in our times, I fear that if I were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;36 Arguments for the Existence of God &#8211; a work of fiction&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“36 Arguments for the Existence of God &#8211; a work of fiction” by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Pantheon Books, New York, 399 pages including the Appendix, ©2010 by Rebecca Goldstein Yes, I have to say, my previous reading of a “novel that is very philosophical” (http://www.elainezimbel.com/?p=359) left me more than a little disappointed.  Returning it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elainezimbel.com/36-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-a-work-of-fiction</link>
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		<title>“The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translated from the French  by Alison Anderson, © 2008 Europa Editions, New York, N.Y. 325 pages Sometimes it matters how you came to pick a book to read &#8211; perhaps you were 1.  mindlessly browsing in a bookstore, or urgently searching in the library for something to read before rushing home,    read a page or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elainezimbel.com/%e2%80%9cthe-elegance-of-the-hedgehog%e2%80%9d-by-muriel-barbery-translated-from-the-french-by-alison-anderson-%c2%a9-2008-europa-editions-new-york-n-y-325-pages</link>
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		<title>Billie Mitchell Field &#8211; MKE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being the Preface/Preamble to two book reviews If you ever find yourself at the Milwaukee airport and you have a little time, you are very lucky because the Renaissance Book Store is there, and if you love books, you will love this place.  This is not an ad &#8211; this is a gift. I hate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.elainezimbel.com/billie-mitchell-field-mke</link>
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		<title>Make No Mistake, It&#8217;s a Culture of Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday another baby died in Montreal.  I heard it on the radio.  In the middle of the night the parents called 911 to say their 3 month old daughter was not breathing. “Police probe death of infant girl” Montreal police are investigating the death of a three-month-old baby girl, but stress that so far there [...]]]></description>
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