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	<title>Blasted Members - I love Books. Good Books. Reviews, author information, book-related news and quality literary web links. Enjoy!</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Where do book covers come from?</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2009/07/28/where-do-book-covers-come-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fascinating site where designers talk about getting ideas, final results and everything in between. Lots of wonderful photos, drawings, and of course &#8212; book covers.
FaceOutBooks
Enjoy!
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		<title>how we think about creativity</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2009/07/25/how-we-think-about-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a brilliant talk by Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity.
One thing she discusses is how Renaissance thinking moved the source of creativity from out there to the individual and how that changes everything. Brilliant.
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		<title>Well, well, and where have I been?</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2009/07/14/well-well-and-where-have-i-been/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year since my last post?!?
Why did that happen?
I suppose the easiest answer to that would be: I work too much. When people get all doe-eyed at the mention of the city in which I live and say &#8220;Paris is so ro-MAN-tic!&#8221; I really, really want to answer &#8220;And ex-PEN-sive!&#8221;
Don&#8217;t get me wrong. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn: Colour Photographs from a Lost Age by David Okuefuna</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/22/the-wonderful-world-of-albert-kahn-colour-photographs-from-a-lost-age-by-david-okuefuna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drop everything and rush out to your local bookshop! Utterly gorgeous, it&#8217;s the eagerly awaited (by me) companion book for the BBC Four series on Albert Kahn&#8217;s Archives of the Planet project.
Photographs (autochromes being a particular favorite) are a passion of mine, and these are stunning.
Inventing a process to create stable colour photographs was no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/20/the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered what computers (in general) and the Internet (specifically) are doing to your brain?
I know I have &#8212; more and more lately.
The effects on us in general are, of course, innumerable &#8212; positive and negative. In this post, would like to mention a couple of the negative effects because these are what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/06/sesame-and-lilies-by-john-ruskin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;&#8230;so far as you prefer those rapid and ephemeral writings to slow and enduring writings &#8212; books, properly so called. For all books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction &#8212; it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/01/me-talk-pretty-one-day-by-david-sedaris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/06/01/me-talk-pretty-one-day-by-david-sedaris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be one of those promised short reviews.
All kinds of people recommended and loved this collection of &#8220;humorous&#8221; autobiographical essays. I find this a little disturbing. I suppose it&#8217;s just another example of how out of sync I am with&#8230; well, most people.
To me, he came off as quite mean and rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regeneration by Pat Barker</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/28/regeneration-by-pat-barker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 15:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blastedmembers.com/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(First of a trilogy, it&#8217;s followed by The Eye in the Door and Ghost Road.)
I wanted so badly to like this. World War I poets, posttraumatic stress, early psychiatry&#8230; how could you go wrong? I read them over Christmas. It was this or Milton, I couldn&#8217;t make up my mind. Should have gone with Milton.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-Rise by J.G. Ballard</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/24/high-rise-by-jg-ballard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/24/high-rise-by-jg-ballard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was good. Not great, but good.
The plot: the yuppie universe implodes.
The setting: a monstrous apartment tower that immediately brings to mind Le Corbusier&#8217;s plan for central Paris. (&#8221;Eighteen, sixty-story cruciform towers&#8221; each of them home to 40,000 inhabitants. Alain de Botton talks about it in his wonderful book &#8220;The Architecture of Happiness&#8220;, which I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hat</title>
		<link>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/13/new-hat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blastedmembers.com/2008/05/13/new-hat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I locked myself out of my blog last night.
I was twelve years old again, nobody home, staring at the door of my apartment. I remember flipping up the mail slot flap and making kissy noises until one of the cats appeared. I waggled my fingers at him. He turned and walked away. [...]]]></description>
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