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		<title>Review: Mrs. Woolf and the Servants</title>
		<link>http://gabriellawest.net/2013/05/04/review-mrs-woolf-and-the-servants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 18:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I read Virginia Woolf&#8216;s Diaries (an experience I recommend to any writer) back in 2011 I remember thinking what horrible bosses she and Leonard were to their hapless, underpaid employees at the Hogarth Press, which they ran out of &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2013/05/04/review-mrs-woolf-and-the-servants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=454&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That Lonely, Sinking Feeling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I look back on my life here in San Francisco I am amazed at all the changes the city has been through and that I have been through in the city. Somehow it seems hard to separate my emotional &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2013/03/23/that-lonely-sinking-feeling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=448&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marking St. Patrick&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://gabriellawest.net/2013/03/17/marking-st-patricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in a previous post on this blog, I don&#8217;t ever do much for St. Patrick&#8217;s, but I usually find myself in a celebratory mood anyway because of the coming of spring. The fruit trees are blossoming madly &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2013/03/17/marking-st-patricks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=443&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
		<link>http://gabriellawest.net/2012/12/30/2012-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. As a bit of a giggle, I&#8217;m posting it for all to see. For a blog that I didn&#8217;t tend as often as I should this year, &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/12/30/2012-in-review/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=435&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: After Mrs Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://gabriellawest.net/2012/12/27/book-review-after-mrs-hamilton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost the end of December, and it&#8217;s time to squeeze out one last book review for the year. After Mrs Hamilton (Kindle, $4.99) is the second novel by British writer Clare Ashton. I loved her first book, Pennance, which &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/12/27/book-review-after-mrs-hamilton/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=325&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rowling&#8217;s &#8216;Casual Vacancy&#8217; Strikes a Nerve</title>
		<link>http://gabriellawest.net/2012/10/07/rowlings-casual-vacancy-strikes-a-nerve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 21:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J.K. Rowling, Little, Brown ($35 hardcover); Kindle ($14.99) Joanne Rowling is a woman with a ton of baggage. As her own writer bio on Amazon states, she’s the author of the “bestselling Harry Potter series of &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/10/07/rowlings-casual-vacancy-strikes-a-nerve/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=319&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty Shades of Grey &#8211; A Quick Take</title>
		<link>http://gabriellawest.net/2012/08/30/fifty-shades-of-grey-chapter-26/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Shannon Yarbrough has been recapping each chapter of Fifty Shades of Grey on his blog, accompanied by hilarious visuals. Confession: I sent him my copy after finishing with it, wondering what he would get out of it, as &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/08/30/fifty-shades-of-grey-chapter-26/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=310&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July Book Review: Building Character by Kate Genet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriella West</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Building Character’ by Kate Genet, 2012, Kindle/Smashwords ($6.99)  The summer months are difficult ones for indie authors, who tend to see sales of their full-length ebooks diminish. A book that came out last month without much fanfare is Kate Genet’s &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/07/16/july-book-review-building-character-by-kate-genet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=299&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May Book Review: Pennance by Clare Ashton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Pennance’ by Clare Ashton, 2012, Createspace pbk (8.99)/Kindle ($2.99) When I first came across Clare Ashton’s debut novel on Kindle, I confess I frowned slightly at the title and thought that it was possibly a typo for “Penance.” It’s not, &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/05/18/may-book-review-pennance-by-clare-ashton/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=291&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Paddy&#8217;s, Green Beer, and a free ebook today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to make a confession: I&#8217;ve never sampled green beer! You see, I grew up in Dublin, where in the 1980s, the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade, held in still-freezing March temperatures, was a fairly sombre, pallid march down central &#8230; <a href="http://gabriellawest.net/2012/03/17/st-paddys-green-beer-and-a-free-ebook-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gabriellawest.net&#038;blog=18607203&#038;post=283&#038;subd=gabriellawest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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