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		<title>2012 Appearances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some upcoming events: &#160; February Event name:  Romance Readers Social Time:  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Date:   Saturday, February 25 Description:  Meet local romance authors April Kihlstrom, Jane Myers Perrine, and Patrice Sarath at the library’s annual Romance Readers Social. Enjoy refreshments and bring your old romance paperbacks for a book swap. Location:  Pflugerville Community Library [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Bitches Trashy Books review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sure, everyone loves to get four- and five-star reviews, but the romance blog/review site/my new crush* Smart Bitches Trashy Books doesn&#8217;t play that game. There is no grade inflation. The Unexpected Miss Bennet gets a C+ and there will be no whining about the curve. So when SB Sarah writes: One, the hero, Tom Aikens, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/reviews/smart-bitches-trashy-books-review/</link>
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		<title>Which Heyers are your favorites?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine has access to about 15-20 Georgette Heyer novels and is willing to send them to me. Since he is overseas, this is a huge deal. I&#8217;m tempted to say all of them! But that might be expensive. He has said that one of them is Cotillion, which is my favorite Heyer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/patrice-sarath/which-heyers-are-your-favorites/</link>
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		<title>Austen and Gaskell &#8212; a comparison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many readers suggested North &#38; South by Elizabeth Gaskell in the comments during the Birthday Soiree that I decided to read it over Christmas. I can see why many fans love the book and suggested it but I was also stunned by how different it was from Jane Austen&#8217;s own work. Somehow, I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/observations/austen-and-gaskell-a-comparison/</link>
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		<title>Miss Bennet included in Best of 2011 lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Austenprose has named The Unexpected Miss Bennet one of the Top 10 Jane Austen sequels, prequels, and retellings. And Austenesque Reviewer Jeffrey Ward named The Unexpected Miss Bennet one of his top Pride &#38; Prejudice sequels of the year as well. I am very honored to be in such company. And thanks to everyone who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/the-unexpected-miss-bennet/best-of-2011-lists-are-out-and-miss-bennet-makes-the-grade/</link>
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		<title>Julie Kagawa &#8212; The Iron Knight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read the fourth book in Julie Kagawa&#8217;s The Iron Fey series, The Iron Knight, over the holidays and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you aren&#8217;t reading this YA series, and you love YA, treat yourself by picking up this series, which starts with The Iron King. In every one of the books in the series, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/observations/julie-kagawa-the-iron-knight/</link>
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		<title>After Christmas drive-by</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Twas the night after Christmas and all through the house, Not much was happening, we were too stuffed to move. The Christmas dinner was all eaten with care, As was the Christmas Eve feast because that&#8217;s how we do things In Connecticut &#8212; right. &#160; Anyway, I&#8217;ve been hunkered down with my family, hiking in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/the-unexpected-miss-bennet/after-christmas-drive-by/</link>
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		<title>The Winner Is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kelli H! Please send me your address and I will send out a signed copy of The Unexpected Miss Bennet. Congratulations, and I hope you enjoy my book. My thanks to everyone who commented on Jane Austen&#8217;s Birthday Soiree. It was so much fun to talk about favorite books. Thanks to commenters I have now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/the-unexpected-miss-bennet/the-winner-is/</link>
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		<title>Happy birthday, Miss Austen &#8212; the Birthday Soiree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to my readers: As part of the Jane Austen Birthday Soiree, hosted by  Maria Grazia at My Jane Austen Book Club and Katherine Cox at November&#8217;s Autumn, I&#8217;ve joined some 30 Austen bloggers and authors for a special birthday celebration. We are delivering our &#8220;gifts&#8221; to Jane and as a gift to you, offering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/the-unexpected-miss-bennet/happy-birthday-miss-austen-the-birthday-soiree/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Jane Austen birthday soiree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join me and 30 other Jane Austen sequel and prequel authors for our celebration of Austen&#8217;s birthday on Friday. Visit each blog and comment for a chance to win a variety of prizes. I&#8217;ll be giving away a copy of The Unexpected Miss Bennet for some cozy winter reading. &#160; LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patricesarath.com/patrice-sarath/upcoming-jane-austen-birthday-soiree/</link>
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