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		<title>Books, Dance, and a Heartbreak Challenge!</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month we are celebrating the release of Maria Finn&#8216;s memoir, Hold Me Tight &#38; Tango Me Home! And just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day, too. If you&#8217;re interested in dance, literature, or love (all hands should be in the air), you can check out her blog here. Personally, I&#8217;m excited about Finn&#8217;s Heartbreak Competition. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.algonquinbooksblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/9781565125179.jpg" rel="facebox"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1435" style="margin: 3px;" title="9781565125179" src="http://www.algonquinbooksblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/9781565125179.jpg" alt="" width="129" height="192" /></a>This month we are celebrating the release of <strong>Maria Finn</strong>&#8216;s memoir, <a href="http://www.workman.com/products/9781565125179/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.workman.com/products/9781565125179/?referer=');"><strong>Hold Me Tight &amp; Tango Me Home</strong></a>! And just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day, too.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in dance, literature, or love (all hands should be in the air), you can check out her blog <a href="http://tangomehome.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/tangomehome.com/?referer=');">here</a>.</p>
<p>Personally, I&#8217;m excited about Finn&#8217;s <a href="http://tangomehome.com/heartbreak-competition/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/tangomehome.com/heartbreak-competition/?referer=');">Heartbreak Competition</a>. In 100-200 words, she asks you to tell your tale of love and loss, and submit it for the chance to win a copy of the book (and be featured on her blog!). 200 words isn&#8217;t a whole lot, but then, who needs more space than that to describe searing rejection? Were I to submit my own, it would go something like:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I met Scooter in woodshop in the 7th grade, he always let me use the better power-sander. He was really popular and I wasn&#8217;t, so it suprised me when he asked me to the winter dance. We danced to <em>Emotions</em> by Destiny&#8217;s Child. I swooned. On Valentine&#8217;s Day he bought me a chocolate-covered marshmallow heart from the Kwik-E-Mart. I swooned. Then I got the flu and was out for a week. When I came back to school he was dating Talia Fesser. I did NOT swoon.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Hopefully you can all do better than that.</p>
<p>-Susannah</p>
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