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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have read so much Renaissance drama lately that it is leaking out of my ears. I need to finish two papers, plan a dissertation proposal, do make-up for a show and think of PhD applications within the next few &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/placeholder-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=165&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workio ad Absurdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have so many thoughts on blog posts to write, and so little time to do them all. Thankfully I have actually written them down, but when I will have the time I just don&#8217;t know. I also have two &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/workio-ad-absurdam/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=163&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliodyssey: October Renaissance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made an executive decision, since my last post was reaching marathon lengths, to separate my discussion of Renaissance drama into a different post. I&#8217;ve allowed myself to expand and be a bit more scholarly here. October: The Plays Now &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/bibliodyssey-october-renaissance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=154&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliodyssey: October&#8217;s Overview and Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month has involved mainly texts for my degree, an MA in English Literature in which I&#8217;m currently studying the myth of King Arthur in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and a module wonderfully titled &#8216;Violent Death in Renaissance Drama&#8217;. &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/bibliodyssey-october/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=151&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliodyssey: September</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month has, I have to confess, been rather a failure on the &#8216;reading a whole book to the end&#8217; front. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of it recovering from the flue, which has involved a certain amount of exhaustion and &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/bibliodyssey-september/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=135&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliodyssey: August</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, considerably sooner than my updates for June and July, here is my update for August. August also included mad commuting and travelling, but with the added excitement of coming down with the flu, so my reading output fluctuated between &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/bibliodyssey-august/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=144&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliodyssey: Belated Update for July</title>
		<link>http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/bibliodyssey-belated-update-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July and August were the months when my summer was most chaotic, because I was temping in Stratford most weeks, in Cardiff for the not-quite-weekends and then one week I was working down in Somerset and another I was off &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/bibliodyssey-belated-update-july/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=131&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I have had a slightly busy and chaotic summer, temping in Warwickshire, teaching in Somerset and spending my weekends in Cardiff. So though I did get some reading done, it wasn&#8217;t as much as I would have liked, and &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/bibliodyssey-belated-update-for-june/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=126&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliodyssey: A Statement of Intent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 16:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was wide awake at 5am a few nights ago for absolutely no reason, I looked around my bookshelves and realised that a lot of the books that I have here are ones that I haven&#8217;t read, or have &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/bibliodyssey-a-statement-of-intent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=123&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling Tales: Saturday and Apples (Ann Arbor, Day 5)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my last full day in Ann Arbor, and for that matter in the US, involved a lot of walking! Tony, Amy, Mary, Sophie and I headed out this morning to experience the pre-football-match atmostphere up at the Michigan stadium: &#8230; <a href="http://secondmagpie.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/travelling-tales-saturday-and-apples-ann-arbor-day-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secondmagpie.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13860354&amp;post=117&amp;subd=secondmagpie&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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