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	<title>Eclectic Bibliophile</title>
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	<description>Eclectic Bibliophile is a haven for book-lovers, bibliophiles, bookjunkies, and bibliomaniacs.</description>
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		<title>83 Ways to Celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[83 Ways to Celebrate Valentines – February 1-14, 2012. Celebrate with us by receiving a gift!

Includes history of Valentines Day, Homeschool Activities, Crafts, Special Family Activities and much more
I am partnering with &#8220;How To Homeschool My Child&#8221; to bring you a special gift on Monday, February 13, 2012.
Go to http://www.HowToHomeschoolMychild.com now to sign up on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2012/02/09/83-ways-to-celebrate-valentines-day/</link>
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		<title>Our Christmas Traditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite parts of Christmas is reading aloud in front of the fire and the Christmas tree lights each evening in December.

This year we&#8217;re reading The Handel&#8217;s Messiah Family Advent Reader, which includes 28 nightly devotionals and an audio CD with related bits of The Messiah to accompany each reading. A &#8220;Read More [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/12/23/our-christmas-traditions/</link>
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		<title>Twelve Days of Christmas with Homeschooling Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve Days of Christmas – December 26, 2011 through January 6, 2012. Celebrate with us by receiving a gift for the season! 
I am partnering with Homeschooling Today magazine to bring you a special discount on January 2.  
Go to www.HomeschoolingToday.com now to sign up on the home page for the Homeschooling Helper e-newsletter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/12/21/twelve-days-of-christmas-with-homeschooling-today/</link>
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		<title>What are your favorite Christmas books?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of St. Nicholas Day, my boys and I are about to snuggle by the fire and read one of our favorite Christmas books:
The Baker&#8217;s Dozen: A St. Nicholas Tale
A fair but tight-fisted baker learns an important lesson about generosity. 

This new edition includes a recipe and pattern for St. Nicholas cookies. Might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/12/07/what-are-your-favorite-christmas-books/</link>
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		<title>How Do You Do It All? Big sale with HUGE bonus package!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you overwhelmed by juggling everything on your endless to-do list? Is it tough to balance your family life and work responsibilities? Throw in a home business and/or homeschooling, and the challenges grow even more! If you&#8217;re frustrated, exhausted, and overwhelmed, you may benefit from my 7-hour home study course, How Do You Do It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/12/05/490/</link>
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		<title>What are your favorite books? What do you want to read?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I teach a weekly literature class for grades 9-12 as part of our homeschool co-op. Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s assignment, which I developed 4 years ago in response to a student&#8217;s complaint: &#8220;Why do we have to read this stuff? Why can&#8217;t we just read whatever we want?&#8221; The answers were fascinating. Eager to hear what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/12/02/what-are-your-favorite-books-what-do-you-want-to-read/</link>
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		<title>Real Men Read Austen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Real Men Read Austen.&#8221; That&#8217;s the title of chapter 1 of Peter Leithart&#8217;s excellent book, Miniatures &#038; Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen. 

Leithart says if he could have dinner with a dozen of the greatest British and American writers, he&#8217;d want the seat next to Jane Austen because she would be the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/05/29/real-men-read-austen/</link>
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		<title>Why do (some) men like Jane Austen?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just read a fascinating article by Brian Brown at Humane Pursuits. Here&#8217;s the gist of his answer:
&#8220;I think we like Jane Austen because we like stories with men in them. Do not misunderstand me. We don’t watch a Jane Austen movie because Indiana Jones and Jason Bourne aren’t men. But we face—and have been facing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/05/29/why-do-some-men-like-jane-austen/</link>
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		<title>Lesser Titles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great titles are really important to the success of a book (or movie). A while back there was something called &#8220;Lesser Titles&#8221; on Twitter. Here are a few of my contributions:
The Sun Also Peeps through the Clouds in the Rain
The Cerulean Letter
The Taming of the Meerkat
Sleepless in Schenectady
Lost: Pair o&#8217; Dice
A Farewell to Snow Globes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/05/19/lesser-titles/</link>
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		<title>Eudora Welty, 1909-2001</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite authors, Eudora Welty, was born 102 years ago today. It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s been almost 10 years since I attended her funeral, which I wrote about for the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook.
I was privileged to meet Miss Welty at a writing conference in the late 1980s. In this photo, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://eclectic-bibliophile.com/blog/2011/04/14/eudora-welty-1909-2001/</link>
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