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		<title>Author&#8217;s Interview: Anders and Lars Brownworth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reviewing the exceptional podcast 12 Byzantine Rulers, I contacted the publisher/author duo of Anders and Lars Brownworth to explore the possibility of interviewing the podcasting team about their efforts in the audio lecture field. Fortunately for our readers, they agreed to this request and the result is an exciting, insightful look into what it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     Game of Shadows is the controversial expose of steroid abuse in Major League Baseball written by San Francisco Chronicle journalists Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams  Based primarily on leaked grand jury testimony and several well-placed confidential sources, Game of Shadows purports to reveal what really happened inside baseball’s largest scandal since Pete Rose chose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Byzantine Rulers: A History of the Byzantine Empire by Lars Brownworth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     12 Byzantine Rulers: A History of the Byzantine Empire by Lars Brownworth is a series of lectures by podcast that offer an insightful look at the origins, development, and relevance of the Byzantine Empire. According to the short biography on his website, Mr. Brownworth is a History teacher at the Stony Brook School on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Site Update/News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello Readers!  After a short leave of absence (Annual Appalachian Trail Trip) I am back and will have more reviews up in the next few days. I plan on writing reviews for some of my favorite military history books as well as a few of my well worn novels. You know the ones, they lie on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminate.redline6.net/2006/06/09/site-updatenews/</link>
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		<title>Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence James is a British historian best known for his title Rise and Fall of the British Empire, which was published about ten years ago and had a military-historical focus. In Raj, James again focuses on the more military aspects of his subject, but does not ignore cultural or political topics either.  The book weighs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminate.redline6.net/2006/05/12/raj-the-making-and-unmaking-of-british-india-by-lawrence-james/</link>
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		<title>His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     For those searching for a relatively condensed exposition on the life and times of America’s most famous Founding Father, one need look no further than His Excellency: George Washington. Authored by Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency is an unbiased foray into Washington’s intricate and occasionally contradictory life.  Ellis masterfully synthesizes the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminate.redline6.net/2006/05/04/his-excellency/</link>
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		<title>A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     A Walk in the Woods is a humorous travelogue about the author’s journey along a two thousand mile swath of wilderness stretching between Georgia and Maine known as the Appalachian Trail. His companion on this journey, Stephen Katz, is a life long friend that will be familiar to readers of Bryson’s previous travelogues. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminate.redline6.net/2006/05/02/a-walk-in-the-woods-by-bill-bryson/</link>
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		<title>The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[      The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara is a novel of the Revolutionary War, told through the eyes of the major participants: George Washington, Nathaniel Greene, Charles Cornwallis and the Marquis de Lafayette, just to name a few. This novel, like most of Jeff Shaara&#8217;s novels, falls into the style of his father&#8217;s Pultizer-prize winning work, The Killer Angels, that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminate.redline6.net/2006/04/30/the-glorious-cause-by-jeff-shaara/</link>
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		<title>Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester is an excellent portrayal of a young English boy (Horatio Hornblower) entering service into the Royal Navy during the era of Napoleon. It is the first of eleven books Forester would write about the life and times of Britain&#8217;s most famous (fictional) sailor.  Naturally, as he is only 17 and hasn&#8217;t any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminate.redline6.net/2006/04/29/mr-midshipman-hornblower-by-cs-forester/</link>
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		<title>Hello Readers/Future Reviewers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Welcome to The Scriptorium! The purpose of this site is to generate and encourage intelligent literary discussion by allowing the general public to review their favorite books and have others to comment on these reviews. Please bear with me as this site is refined to a more permanent form. 
Thanks for visiting,
 -Matt 

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