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	<description>Chocolate in the Fruit Bowl</description>
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		<title>Playing Catch-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DELIGHTFUL ROBYN: KAREN, today we went to Target and I obtained some delightful items.
DELIGHTFUL ROBYN: Some of them were organizational/grownup in nature, such as an LED desklamp.
DELIGHTFUL ROBYN: But BEST OF ALL are new shoelaces AND some little plastic charms that go on them that blink when I walk.
DELIGHTFUL ROBYN: One is a skull and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/03/playing-catch-up/</link>
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		<title>Print reviews!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guardian of the Dead has been getting some really nice print reviews forwarded to me by my editors. Since I believe it is Not Done to post them in full, especially before they are actually published, I am going to tease you with extracts.
Kirkus says: &#8220;Fast-paced adventure and an unfamiliar, frightening enemy set a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/03/print-reviews/</link>
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		<title>All About Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internets, I say, I am back!
Oh, it&#8217;s you, Karen, you say. Huh. Did you bring cake?
No, internets, I did not! I brought tidings of great joy, and also some ways for you to relentlessly cyberstalk me. 
I realised I have been somewhat remiss in not telling people where I am to be found other than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/03/all-about-me/</link>
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		<title>Lost In Translation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lost in Translation: New Zealand Stories, ed. Marco Sonzogni.

BOOK: Karen, you should buy me.
ME: Well, you certainly have an eyecatching and thought-provoking cover*! But I don&#8217;t know, book, I don&#8217;t enjoy very much adult literary fiction.
BOOK: I have a story by Tze Ming Mok.
ME: SOLD.
Tze Ming Mok wrote the blog Yellow Peril at Public Address [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/lost-in-translation/</link>
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		<title>Raining Down Joy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last night, due to activities for which I cannot be held responsible, because they could have happened to ANYONE, the house flooded.
ANYONE could have started running a bath and then had a wee nap. And then woken to dazedly note that by the sound, it seemed we were having some rain, how nice. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/raining-down-joy/</link>
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		<title>Internets, I Am An Octopus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tentacles EVERYWHERE, internets!
One. The fabulous author/teen lit blogger Steph Bowe does a lovely, spoiler-free review of Guardian of the Dead, with an interview from me. 
Teaser:
The part furthest from my experience were the fight scenes, since I can barely throw a punch. Naturally, I decided the narrator would have a black belt in Tae Kwon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/internets-i-am-an-octopus/</link>
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		<title>Awesome Girls Being Awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internets, I have read some awesome books! 
Karen, you say, that does not surprise us at all. If you must, you may tell us about them, very quickly. We are a busy internets.
Internets, okay!
MY LIFE AS A RHOMBUS, Varian Johnson.
BOOK: I am a book about teenage pregnancy and abortion by 1) a man who  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/awesome-girls-being-awesome/</link>
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		<title>Nose To The Grindstone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, home, where I have to-do lists and reading piles. Did I leap off the plane and plunge straight back into work? Did I heck. I bought a cube of Diet Coke and read Scarlett Fever* and half of My Life As A Rhombus, that&#8217;s what I did. And frankly, the only reason I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/nose-to-the-grindstone/</link>
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		<title>I Get Them Everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. My bestie, Robyn: Jimmy just found our batarangs.
Me: Woo!
Me: &#8230; you know, some people would find that statement bemusing.
Several years ago, as I attended my second WisCon in the company of people Robyn and I had inveigled to join us through sheer strength of enthusiasm, our friend Rachel greeted us with batarangs. Not plastic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/i-get-them-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>My Love Lies Bleeding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If this book by Alyxandra Harvey has a flaw, it&#8217;s that some of the action scenes are kind of sketchy – not the actions in which best buds and alternate narrators Lucy and Solange take part, which seem very solid, but those they observe often come down to things like, &#8220;And then there was flipping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karenhealey.com/2010/02/my-love-lies-bleeding/</link>
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