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		<title>Crocodile on the Sandbank &#8211; Elizabeth Peters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Amazon.co.uk Review

“Elizabeth Peters&#8217; unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery. Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Evelyn Barton-Forbes, a young woman abandoned by her lover and left with no means of support. Amelia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2010/02/28/crocodile-on-the-sandbank-elizabeth-peters/</link>
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		<title>Cloudstreet &#8211; Tim Winton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am re-reading the classic 1991 Australian novel
&#8220;Cloudstreet a broken down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of its own, a place of shudders, shadows and spirits.
From separate catastrophes, two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing this great breathing, sighing, muttering structure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2010/01/01/cloudstreet-tim-winton/</link>
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		<title>Why no Melways of the Bush?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember years ago wondering why there wasn&#8217;t a Melways (street directory) of the entire State of Victoria, including the bush areas. 
And here&#8217;s one reason&#8230;. 
This is going to be just a rough calculation, so don&#8217;t get upset about decimal places and rounding off. 
An A4 sheet of paper is 21&#215;29 cm. Leave 1cm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/12/03/why-no-melways-of-the-bush/</link>
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		<title>Dispatches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Current book is the Vietnam War account that is
.  
The cover says: &#8220;The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time &#8211; John le Carre&#8221;
To quote from Amazon: &#8220;Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/11/27/dispatches/</link>
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		<title>Inside Hitler&#8217;s Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the WWII history book
. 
I understand this was one of the two main books used as the source for the excellent &#34;Downfall&#34; film. The other one, I have also recently read.
Purchased online from BetterWorld Books
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		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/11/21/inside-hitlers-bunker-the-last-days-of-the-third-reich/</link>
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		<title>Drowned World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently Reading the 1962 SciFi book

.

Borrowed from the local library
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		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/11/13/drowned-world/</link>
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		<title>Grampians:  Hollow Mountain has me in stitches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Am fine and home now. But yesterday (Thursday November 5th) was a day of adventure.  A quick summary:
Forecast for Thurs and Fri was for lovely weather, so decided a quick trip to the Northern Grampians was the go. 280km each way, so should try and stay 2 nights at least.
Plan was to try Briggs Bluff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/11/06/grampians-hollow-mountain-has-me-in-stitches/</link>
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		<title>Until the final hour : Hitler&#8217;s last secretary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finished this book

Was one of the books used in the creation of the brilliant movie Downfall. Book borrowed from the local library
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		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/11/05/until-the-final-hour-hitlers-last-secretary/</link>
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		<title>ABC3 Kids &#8211; how about education at night?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s great we are getting a 3rd ABC TV channel, dedicated to kids. It starts “before Christmas [2009]” according to a report on their own web site.&#160;&#160; The same page also notes it will&#160; “broadcast from 6am-9pm daily”.&#160;&#160; That’s good timing for the young market it is aiming at.
But how about using the ‘spare’ 9pm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/11/01/abc3-kids-how-about-education-at-night/</link>
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		<title>Ask The Dust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently reading the somewhat forgotten 1939 (!) masterpiece
 . 
Borrowed from the local library. Thanks to Marieke et al on the First Tuesday Book Club for pointing out this wonderful book
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		<link>http://www.artwill.com.au/sic/2009/10/30/ask-the-dust/</link>
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