<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Spitzit's House &#187; Book Reviews</title>
	<atom:link href="http://spitzit.com/category/book-reviews/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://spitzit.com</link>
	<description>Where serious topics come to relax</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:14:58 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='spitzit.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Spitzit's House &#187; Book Reviews</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://spitzit.com/osd.xml" title="Spitzit&#039;s House" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://spitzit.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao &#8211; Book Review</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2009/04/19/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-book-review/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2009/04/19/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Junot Diaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Wao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trujillo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.com/?p=372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever go see a movie that after reading all the rave reviews and hearing all the hype...and then walked out of the movie feeling really let down and thinking 'this was not nearly as great' as you were expecting or wanting it to be?   Well, that is what this book pretty much did for me...A really big let down.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=372&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2009/04/19/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-book-review/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/oscar-wao1.jpg?w=198" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">oscar-wao1</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Book Review &#8211; &#8220;The Shack&#8221; by William P. Young</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2008/12/17/book-review-the-shack-by-william-p-young/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2008/12/17/book-review-the-shack-by-william-p-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Ghost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Trinity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mackenzie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Shack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William P. Young]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.com/?p=336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In short, I read The Shack and it didn&#8217;t change my life&#8230;but it did make me think. There are a ton of reviews about this book on the internet and many of the reviews seem about as long as the book itself. I was glad to see that I am not the only one who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=336&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2008/12/17/book-review-the-shack-by-william-p-young/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/shack1.jpg?w=193" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">shack1</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Story Review &#8211; The Mouse and the Snake ; a fable by Zane</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/11/story-review-the-mouse-and-the-snake-a-fable-by-zane/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/11/story-review-the-mouse-and-the-snake-a-fable-by-zane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everything Else]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.wordpress.com/?p=207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a short story I read recently&#8230;so short in fact, that I have placed the entire story in this post. It reminded me very much of the &#8220;scorpion and the frog&#8221; fable, except that this one was written by an 8 year old boy that has never heard of the &#8220;scorpion and the frog&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=207&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/11/story-review-the-mouse-and-the-snake-a-fable-by-zane/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ist2_5950821-hungry-snake-and-sad-mouse.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">ist2_5950821-hungry-snake-and-sad-mouse</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Book Review &#8211; Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/10/book-review-anansi-boys-by-neil-gaimen/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/10/book-review-anansi-boys-by-neil-gaimen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anansi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anansi Boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anansi the Spider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Gaiman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stardust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sandman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.wordpress.com/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Published in 2005, Anansi Boys spins a web (pun definitely intended) about a shy Londoner, Fat Charlie, whose father dies and he later finds out his old man was actually a god, and that he has a long lost brother that evidently inherited all the cool genetic god powers from their old man. I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=200&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/10/book-review-anansi-boys-by-neil-gaimen/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/anansi_boys.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">anansi_boys</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Book Review &#8211; The Road by Cormac McCarthy</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/01/book-review-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/01/book-review-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apocalyptic world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cormac mccarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no country for old men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulitzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the road]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.wordpress.com/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Road by Cormac McCarthy was published in 2006, and won the much coveted Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007. This is a difficult review to write because this is one serious and profound book, and yet I am compelled to find something shallow and humorous to say in what is a completely humorless book. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=165&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2008/10/01/book-review-the-road-by-cormac-mccarthy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/the-road2.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">the-road2</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cormac-mccarthy-4.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cormac-mccarthy-4</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Book Review &#8211; Cold Moon by Jeffery Deaver</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2008/09/25/book-review-cold-moon-by-jeffery-deaver/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2008/09/25/book-review-cold-moon-by-jeffery-deaver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amelia Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bone Collector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denzel Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffery Deaver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lincoln Rhyme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suspense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watchmaker]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.wordpress.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cold Moon, written by Jeffery Deaver, was released in 2006 and is part of what is now an 8 book series surrounding the intense cases of Lincoln Rhyme and detective Amelia Sachs. For those of you who do not know the series, it started with The Bone Collector, which became a major motion picture starring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=120&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2008/09/25/book-review-cold-moon-by-jeffery-deaver/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/cold-moon.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">cold-moon</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/deaver.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">deaver</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Rule Of Four is quite the bore</title>
		<link>http://spitzit.com/2008/08/29/the-rule-of-four-is-quite-the-bore/</link>
		<comments>http://spitzit.com/2008/08/29/the-rule-of-four-is-quite-the-bore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spitzit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Da Vinci Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dustin Thomason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypnerotomachia Poliphili]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ian Caldwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rule of Four]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spitzit.wordpress.com/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Published in 2004, The Rule of Four was written by childhood buddies, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. It is their first published book, therefore, I will start by fairly stating that the book is not horrible, and is far from the worst book I have ever read. Without doing any formal research, my psychic mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spitzit.com&amp;blog=4624483&amp;post=25&amp;subd=spitzit&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spitzit.com/2008/08/29/the-rule-of-four-is-quite-the-bore/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/62b6de00b516e18fbfdef350d6b1eede?s=96&#38;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D96&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">spitzit</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://spitzit.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/200px-the_rule_of_four.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
