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		<title>Deadhouse Gates &#124; Steven Erikson</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2023/11/27/deadhouse-gates-steven-erikson-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epic fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>And now for something completely different! After an entire book (Gardens of the Moon) spent on the continent of Genabackis, Deadhouse Gates opens across the Meningalle Ocean on the continent of Seven Cities. As with Gardens of the Moon, the reader is introduced to a large cast of characters all living their own stories, until  [...]</p>
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		<title>God and War &#124; Elie Wiesel</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2020/11/20/god-and-war-elie-wiesel/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekend Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elie Wiesel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vintage Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When men go to war, God is their first victim. — Wiesel, A Jew Today, 201.</p>
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		<title>A Hobbit Journey &#124; Matthew Dickerson</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2018/12/17/a-hobbit-journey-matthew-dickerson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 12:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazos Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incarnation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hobbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Silmarillion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. With these words, J. R. R. Tolkien begins one of the most popular children’s stories of all time. His world is not just for kids, though. The themes of The Hobbit along with The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion are rich and ripe  [...]</p>
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		<title>Three Day Road &#124; Joseph Boyden</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2015/04/13/three-day-road-joseph-boyden/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Boyden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penguin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Three Day Road lands on the emotional landscape of the reader like the First World War munitions that comprise the setting of the novel. Elijah and Xavier, great First Nation hunters, join the Canadian forces and become skilled snipers on the Great War's killing fields. This narrative is paralleled by the stories Auntie's childhood as she paddles only one of  [...]</p>
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		<title>Peace from War &#124; Wendell Berry</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2015/02/13/peace-war-wendell-berry/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2015 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Weekend Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generosity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pantheon Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Peace is not the result of war, any more than love is the result of hate or generosity the result of greed. —Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom &amp; Community (New York: Pantheon, 1993), 71.</p>
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		<title>Greed and War &#124; Farley Mowat</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2014/09/12/greed-war-farley-mowat/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Farley Mowat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Key Porter Books]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps a hundred years hence the bloodied remnant of humanity will, in its ultimate desperation, find a way to eliminate the twin cancers of greed and war, but I doubt it. —Farley Mowat, My Father's Son: Memories of War and Peace (Toronto: Key Porter, 1992), 134.</p>
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		<title>Catch-22 &#124; Joseph Heller</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2014/09/08/catch-22-joseph-heller/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Heller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever watched M*A*S*H? If so, you owe a debt of gratitude to Joseph Heller. In Catch-22, Heller is the first person to bundle wit with horror, slapstick with satire, and set it in a war-camp. Catch-22 is a sprawling novel with a large cast of characters—almost caricatures. My favourite was Milo Minderbinder. Starting as Mess Officer, he quickly used the airplanes at his  [...]</p>
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		<title>Aftermath &#124; Farley Mowat</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2014/05/12/aftermath-farley-mowat/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 10:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farley Mowat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>From September 1943 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945, Farley Mowat served his Country in Sicily, Italy, and later the Netherlands. He witnessed people and land being ripped apart by constant shelling and trench warfare. In 1953, a full 10 years after he landed on a beach in Sicily, he returned with  [...]</p>
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		<title>Deadhouse Gates &#124; Steven Erikson</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2013/01/14/deadhouse-gates-steven-erikson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bantam]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>"Keep reading, try book two," they said. "It gets easier!" Pffft. I read The Gardens of the Moon carefully, knowing its reputation for being thorny. The end result was rewarding. I must have let my mental concentration lapse sometime during the second book because it was full of moments when I had to try to remember exactly  [...]</p>
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		<title>Who Is My Enemy? &#124; Lee C. Camp</title>
		<link>https://stephenbarkley.com/2012/11/12/who-is-my-enemy-lee-c-camp/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Barkley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Prepare to have the typical Western Fundamentalist view of Islam overturned quicker than tables in a Temple. Instead of starting with our differences and figuring out precisely where our arguments lie, Camp attempts to understand Islam generously (what he calls "double vision") while at the same time turning a critical eye towards Christendom. The heart  [...]</p>
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