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	<title>Grayson Studios Blog &#187; African Diaspora Reading Challenge</title>
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		<title>Summer Reading Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted much on books lately.  That doesn&#8217;t mean I am not reading!  Over the last several weeks I have read all kind of books on different topics.  Below I have shared what I have recently read AND I list a few of the titles in my stack for summer reading. Nnedi Okorafor I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading and Remembering</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of weeks have been great for reading for the African Diasora Reading challenge. I completed two books last week. The first book was Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. The cover of the book alone made me want to read it.  Then I realized that the maternal ancestor was an artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butterfly Burning and Library Loot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This novel is poetry in prose.  I mean the language, THE LANGUAGE is really beautiful.  For me the book reads like a fable.  I hear the voice of the narrator actually reading to me.  This is the first book I have read by Yvonne Vera.  I was not aware of her work but I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Diaspora Challenge Read:  Helen Oyeyemi, The Opposite House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have finished my first read of 2010 for the African Diaspora reading challenge.  I read Helen Oyeyemi&#8217;s The Opposite House. I have to admit I didn&#8217;t love this book. I didn&#8217;t hate it, but I didn&#8217;t love it either.  I felt like I never got into the interior lives of the characters in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Challenge!</title>
		<link>http://www.graysonstudios.com/blog/2009/12/26/reading-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So reading challenges are new for me but I found this site while surfing the web for books to add to my vacation reading list and I could not resist joining the African Diaspora Reading Challenge.  In the last three days I have caught up with all of my magazine reading (American Craft, FibreArts, Studios [...]]]></description>
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