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		<title>Friday Mixtape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Mightygirl, Maggie Mason has been posting a weekly mixtape of new songs she&#8217;s been enjoying. Here&#8217;s my take on it, looking at some old favorites:
Joni Mitchell: Overture/Cotton Avenue, from Don Juan&#8217;s Reckless Daughter

Lots of girls go through a Joni Mitchell phase. In my case, it was less with the folksy &#8220;I&#8217;ve looked at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading, not reviewing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the last week of the semester. So, while I attempt to write two papers in as many days, finish my portfolio, and somehow get ready to go camping this weekend (seriously: what was I thinking?), here&#8217;s a poem I like by Dennis Lee, from Nicholas Knock and Other Poems (illustrated by Frank Newfeld, published [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-not-reviewing/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: Carlo&#8217;s Cricket, by Barbara Reid, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carlo&#8217;s Cricket, by Barbara Reid, illustrated by Ann Grifalconi • McGraw-Hill,  1967.
I wasn&#8217;t able to find an image of the cover online, so here&#8217;s a webcam shot of me, in the cafe in the lower level of the San Francisco Public Library, taking one last stroll through Carlo&#8217;s Cricket before I send it through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-carlos-cricket-by-barbara-reid-illustrated-by-ann-grifalconi/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: The Cremation of Sam McGee, by Robert W. Service, Illustrated by Ted Harrison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cremation of Sam McGee, by Robert W. Service, Illustrated by Ted Harrison • Greenwillow Books, 1987.
Somewhere in the depths of my memory, the phrase &#8220;the men who moil for gold&#8221; was locked away like a bit of ore, or maybe like a ghost ship, sighted on occasion and wondered over by those who noted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee-by-robert-w-service-illustrated-by-ted-harrison/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: Tales of An Empty Cabin, by Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin (Grey Owl)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tales of an Empty Cabin, by Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin (Grey Owl). Published by Dodd, Mead &#38; Company, NY, 1936. 323 pages.
One of the first things I did upon going back to school was take advantage of the San Francisco Mechanics&#8217; Institute&#8217;s special student membership rates. I love this old, private library in the middle of San Francisco&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-tales-of-an-empty-cabin-by-wa-sha-quon-asin-grey-owl/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: A Man Called Raven, by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by George Littlechild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Man Called Raven, by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by George Littlechild • Children&#8217;s Book Press, 1997. 32 Pages.
From the same writing and illustration team that created What&#8217;s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses, A Man Called Raven is a more straightforward story than Horses, following two brothers who encounter a mysterious stranger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-a-man-called-raven-by-richard-van-camp-illustrated-by-george-littlechild/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: The Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn • Charles Scribner&#8217;s Sons, 1983. 229 pages.
Time is not kind to library books. Their corners and edges get dirty and worn, smudges mysteriously appear on covers and spines and never completely go away.
And then there&#8217;s the design of the books themselves. Book covers date so quickly, particularly ones that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-the-root-cellar-by-janet-lunn/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: Destination Gold! By Julie Lawson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Destination Gold, by Julie Lawson • Orca Books, 2000. 210 pages.
As a Californian, I can be a bit myopic about the gold rush. Wasn&#8217;t it something grizzled men in overalls did before founding the Mechanics&#8217; Institute, inventing the cable car, and establishing a football team?
But, of course, Canada had one, too. And that&#8217;s where 16-year-old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-destination-gold-by-julie-lawson/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: What If&#8230;? Amazing Stories, selected by Monica Hughes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if&#8230;? Amazing Stories, selected by Monica Hughes • Tundra Books, 1998. 199 pages.
I don&#8217;t often balk at a book&#8217;s cover, but this one gave me pause. With an illustration that probably looked dated when the book was published in the late nineties and a font that screams &#8220;I was hip once, you whippersnappers,&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.norasawyer.com/2010/05/reading-log-what-if-amazing-stories-selected-by-monica-hughes/</link>
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		<title>Reading Log: As Long as the Rivers Flow, by Larry Loyie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Long as the Rivers Flow, by Larry Loyie, with Constance Brissenden, illustrated by Heather D. Holmlund • Douglas &#38; McIntyre. 48 pages.
It&#8217;s the summer of 1944, and ten-year-old Lawrence is becoming a young man. He&#8217;s learning the old ways of his people, sitting quietly enough to fool a beaver into not seeing him, caring [...]]]></description>
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