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	<title>Okie Reads &#187; First Post</title>
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	<description>Looking at a little down home literature</description>
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		<title>First Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kitty pittman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 0in">One of my favorite quotes about reading is, “Never apologize for your reading tastes.” My own are varied and unapologetic.</p>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal">One of my favorite quotes about reading is, </span><strong>“Never apologize for your reading tastes.</strong>”<span style="font-weight: normal"> My own are varied and </span><span style="font-weight: normal">unapologetic. The author of this quote, Betty Rosenberg, wrote the first, </span><em><span style="font-weight: normal">Genreflecting</span></em><span style="font-weight: normal">, (Now in its sixth edition and currently written by Diana Tixier Herald), which lists popular reading titles in Historical, Western, Crime, Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. She was the early Nancy Pearl, the woman who got us thinking again about <a href="http://www.seattlechannel.org/BookLust/" title="Book Lust Seattle">&#8220;BookLust</a>&#8220;, and what to pick up next. </span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal"><a href="http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/files/2008/11/nancypearl.jpg" title="Nancy Pearl Photograph"><img src="http://blog.newsok.com/okiereads/files/2008/11/nancypearl.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Nancy Pearl Photograph" /></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal">Nancy Pearl herself. <a href="http://booklust.wetpaint.com/?t=anon" title="Nancy Pearl's wiki">Her wiki.</a> </span></p>
<p style="font-weight: normal;margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal">With the internet we have the greatest reading lists of books available that we could ever imagine, lists galore, listservs, LibraryThing, litblogs, Oprah and Nancy Pearl. It&#8217;s the readers&#8217; &#8220;kid in a candy store&#8221;. I have TBR (to be read) lists everywhere, books stacked up in every possible place, working in a library is a reading junkie&#8217;s best habitat.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal">So little time so many books…</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal">What do I like in particular, hmmm…, Oklahoma authors and settings, I think we sell ourselves short with what others say about us, and don’t promote and read our own enough. I like almost any fiction; including mysteries, fantasy, science fiction, romance, contemporary literature and not so much horror. Some non-fiction. I think if the author can’t capture your attention in the first fifty pages, then its move along, life’s too short. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><span style="font-weight: normal">Finally I should end with saying the opinions expressed in my blog are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, newsok, or my husband, and very probably don’t. I hope you choose to comment and express your opinions as well.</span></p>
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