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		<title>Summer Reading List 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WELCOME TO MY 2013 SUMMER READING LIST!!!  And The Mountains Echoed&#8211; I felt my life shatter when I read &#8220;The Kite Runner&#8221;. I felt the earth move when I read &#8220;A Thousand Splendid Suns&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what to expect with this book. I don&#8217;t know what will be altered but, I know something will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road to Graduation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minutes ticked off the clock and my time as a student reached its end. I was so happy, everything about graduation unraveled perfectly. It was one of those moments you sit in and let the whirlwind of blessings flood in and around you. Tuesday, I participated in the 2013 graduate reading at the Reid Castle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Last Student Reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; In August of 2010 I started school in pursuit of a degree in Creative Writing. What a journey it&#8217;s been&#8230;a beautiful one, a long one, and one with struggles along the way. In the beginning of that Fall semester I had a real talk with myself. I demanded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One CRAZY Summer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of Summer, I chose &#8220;One Crazy Summer&#8221; by Rita Williams-Garcia to be my next read. I met her last Summer at Manhattanville&#8217;s College Summer Writer&#8217;s Week. She was so sweet and graciously signed TWO copies of her book for me, one for my friend and one for me. In the past year, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking My Fiction Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wear a lot of different faces. Sometimes I&#8217;m the face of a daughter, sometimes I&#8217;m the face of the friend. Most times I&#8217;m the face of the poet, other times I&#8217;m the face of the technical writer. I&#8217;m always showing different faces of my one true self. I think you would agree, your life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things Fall Apart But Not Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Kimberly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Idealism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I don&#8217;t remember my professor&#8217;s name for the African Literature class I took at UConn but, I do remember reading &#8220;Things Fall Apart&#8221; by Chinua Achebe my sophomore year. The book haunted me semester after semester. I&#8217;d think back to our discussions where a classroom reflecting different backgrounds and genders were using their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWP Boston 2013</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, the association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) holds a conference in a major city of the US. Writers, students, teachers, and academic institutions get together to share ideas and reflect on what&#8217;s going on in the writing world through discussion panels, readings, and book fairs. In short, it is literary overload! I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Latest Read</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made a pact with myself recently; I&#8217;m not allowed to read any fiction until my manuscript is finished. This is a huge challenge for me considering Fiction is my go-to genre when I&#8217;m looking for a good read. But, I know this is a sacrifice I have to make. I&#8217;m trying to get motivated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing My Manuscript</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The semester is in full swing, but for the first time in two years I won&#8217;t be sitting in a classroom. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m stil on the track to graduation I&#8217;ve just come to the sweetest part of this journey&#8211;writing my thesis. It&#8217;s bittersweet, actually, because this process is such a lonely one and I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oprah Book Club 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Kimberly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Oprah lovers and book lovers alike, we come together in the perfect union. Oprah&#8217;s Book Club 2.0 is something we both (all) can enjoy!! I love Oprah. I love her instinct for finding good stories whether they&#8217;re told on her couch or on pages bound as a book. It&#8217;s undeniable that Oprah has [...]]]></description>
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