<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105345309902557693</id><updated>2012-02-16T18:08:09.388-08:00</updated><category term='reading challenge'/><title type='text'>the grand strategy</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9105345309902557693/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>kc</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05326289659370491044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105345309902557693.post-5461886625414027743</id><published>2011-10-17T17:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T17:43:13.811-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reading challenge'/><title type='text'>Throwing My Hat in the Ring: Read Your Own Library Challenge</title><content type='html'>When I learned that I was pregnant, I decided to take some time off from my master's program. Now I'm bored. The Beauty of Eclecticism's &lt;a href="http://eclecticismjncl.blogspot.com/2011/10/read-your-own-library-challenge.html"&gt;Read Your Own Library Challenge&lt;/a&gt; looks like just the thing to keep my brain in gear and also to force me to actually read some of the books that my husband and I have been basically hoarding. The challenge calls for participants to declare their level of backloggedness, and I am definitely at level 3, "Biblio Rehab" (I must not set foot in a bookstore or library until after I've finished a challenge book for the month).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book that I have chosen to start the challenge with is Robin Lane Fox's &lt;i&gt;Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer&lt;/i&gt;. For at least the past year, every time I've gone into a bookstore, I've pulled this one off the shelf, and my husband has to point out to me that I already own it. Hopefully, actually reading the book will prevent me from buying a second copy (since I clearly don't remember buying the first). I'm not sure why it has taken me so long to read this book; I can only presume that it got buried in the stacks while I kept buying other books that I apparently wanted to read more.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9105345309902557693-5461886625414027743?l=thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/feeds/5461886625414027743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/2011/10/throwing-my-hat-in-ring-read-your-own.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9105345309902557693/posts/default/5461886625414027743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9105345309902557693/posts/default/5461886625414027743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/2011/10/throwing-my-hat-in-ring-read-your-own.html' title='Throwing My Hat in the Ring: Read Your Own Library Challenge'/><author><name>kc</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05326289659370491044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105345309902557693.post-3417094023398140462</id><published>2011-10-17T16:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T16:55:17.046-07:00</updated><title type='text'>post 1</title><content type='html'>Testing. That is all.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9105345309902557693-3417094023398140462?l=thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/feeds/3417094023398140462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/2011/10/post-1.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9105345309902557693/posts/default/3417094023398140462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9105345309902557693/posts/default/3417094023398140462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegrandstrategy.blogspot.com/2011/10/post-1.html' title='post 1'/><author><name>kc</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05326289659370491044</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
