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		<title>Of the genre: Historical fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading &#8216;The Living Reed&#8217; by Pearl S Buck triggered all this. More on the book later. (Note to self &#8211; starting the post after a month and a half with a promise of another is not such a bright idea).
Pearl S Buck lived for several decades in China and so we have reason to believe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=220&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl S Buck &#8211; Book club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We are looking to join / start up a PSB book club where we plan to read PSB books and also explore similar authors. Interested? Know any already existing book club that is similar? Please leave a comment or leave a mail at &#8211; DEE dot YES20 at GMAIL dot COM 
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		<title>The Good Earth &#8211; Pearl S Buck</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Warning: This is an obsessive post on the most popular book of my favorite author who I think is brilliant and did not get her due.]
I know, I&#8217;ll not be able to do justice to a classic such as The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck. I should not even attempt. But, I cannot keep [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=146&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The language of Threads &#8211; Gail Tsukiyama</title>
		<link>http://hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/the-language-of-threads-gail-tsukiyama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The language of threads, a sequel to The women of Silk is the story of Pei, a Chinese woman that escaped to Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked China during World War II. Much like its prequel, the tone of this book is &#8211; gentle, quiet and yet intense. This is the second book by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=93&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The books store at your door!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/the-book-store-at-your-door-flipkart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I generally would buy books at local stores like Odyssey, Galgotia, etc. They have a far-from-extensive catalog &#8211; at least the branches close to my home. The books I want to read are not always best-sellers and it is difficult find some of such books at these stores. Annual Delhi Book Fair or the biennial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=80&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Destiny, and That&#8217;s Why I&#8217;m Back&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to be back &#8211; two years, a pregnancy and a baby later. It beats me how people take care of twins &#8211; leave alone sextuplets and then sextuplets after twins! I learnt a lot of things though, could not read much. I am slowly getting back to reading &#8211; not entirely uninterrupted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=73&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women of the Silk &#8211; Gail Tsukiyama</title>
		<link>http://hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/women-of-the-silk-gail-tsukiyama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The many praises and reviews got me to read this book. Gail Tsukiyama&#8217;s first novel, Women of the Silk deserves all those praises. It is a moving, quiet and yet intense coming-of-age novel of a young Chinese woman, who is sold to a house of silk by her poor parents. 
Pei is born as one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=62&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kite Runner &#8211; Khaled Hosseini</title>
		<link>http://hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/the-kite-runner-khaled-hosseini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kite Runner is an exceptional first novel by Khaled Hosseini. The single thread that runs thru the entire book is the story of the friendship between Amir and Hassan. As the first few pages unfold, you see that there are multiple layers of this friendship &#8211; of friends, of master and servant, of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=61&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shopaholic Ties the Knot &#8211; Sophie Kinsella</title>
		<link>http://hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/shopaholic-ties-the-knot-sophie-kinsella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throw together a shopaholic like Rebecca Bloomwood (Becky) and a wedding together and thats a great potential for good chick lit. This books exploits the potentia well.
Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Shophie Kinsella is the third book of the Shopaholic series and is set in New York. Boyfriend Luke Brandon joins Becky to set up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=58&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three daughters of Madame Liang &#8211; Pearl S Buck</title>
		<link>http://hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/three-daughters-of-madame-liang-pearl-s-buck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D S</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three daughters of Madame Liang, published first in 1969 is one of the last pieces of Pearl S Buck&#8217;s work. I&#8217;ve read more than half a dozen of her pieces of work and, this one is as lucid, as deceptively simple and yet deep as others.
Through the book, Three daughters of Madame Liang, Pearl S [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hotcupofcoffee.wordpress.com&blog=600013&post=57&subd=hotcupofcoffee&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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