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  <title><![CDATA[Babyji]]></title>
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  <default-description>Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, &lt;b&gt;Babyji&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents&amp;#8217; scooter garage to read the &lt;i&gt;Kamasutra.&lt;/i&gt; Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorc&#233;e and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys.&lt;br&gt;With the world of adulthood dancing before her, Anamika confronts questions that would test someone twice her age. Ebullient, unfettered, and introducing one of the most charming heroines in contemporary fiction, &lt;b&gt;Babyji&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;is irresistible.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">2</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2005</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Babyji</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Abha Dawesar]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What really impressed me in this book was how clearly the mind and age of a 16-year-old were described. The arrogance, naivety, egoism and principles set to stone all coming not from being a bad person but from being so young. It was only more emphasized by her being seemingly mature over her years ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49366502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69788346">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intense, funny (sometimes laugh-out-loud funny), even a little harrowing at times. What an amazing novel about a sixteen-year-old girl who has affairs with a girl in her class, her maid, and a woman her parents' age. This is not a book most American publishers would accept! And it's not something th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69788346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51861266">
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 07 16:20:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wild story about a stereotypical Indian middle-class all rounder top-ranker high school headgirl didi types who also happens to be a lesbian with a gargantum libido. Between managing the responsibilities of a head girl at a big school, prepping for IIT and acing her exams our heroine effortlessly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51861266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8463099">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 30 20:13:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 24 05:02:43 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's nice to be a i6 year old girl who is having an affair with 3 persons of her own sex --a sexy sophisticated widow, a beautiful maid, a popular classmate--  and with someone's husband, a smart and powerful colonel. That certainly makes the heroine, Anamika Sharma, feel that she's on top of the wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8463099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11732626">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 05 15:22:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 05 15:23:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn’t put down this sexy slice of modern Indian life, narrated in first person by Babyji, as she is fondly called by one of her numerous lovers: her servant. Seducing her is only one of the many ways in which this rebellious high school student defies traditional Indian mores.  She also seduc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11732626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63693355">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 16 02:58:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun to read.  I got through it in one sitting.  It was an interesting plot, but with little depth.  More a romance novel than an exploration of soul.]]></body>
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    <review id="17397803">
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    <body><![CDATA[This had great potential--I even heard the author read from her work at the Lambda Book Awards in New Orleans a couple of years ago. However, the full book didn't live up to my expectations. It's one of those books you feel the author had to write, everyone's first novel about teenage angst. Get it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17397803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57231738">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally allowed to finish it. My first book of the genre, and it was ok. I'm giving it a low rating because it's unnecessary explicit.]]></body>
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    <review id="4178856">
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    <body><![CDATA[Anamika is both a sexually adventurous teenager and an academically gifted one.  She studies chaos theory in her physics class, and then uses this theory to pursue three lesbian affairs, simultaneously.  One is with a woman who works as a servant in her parents' home, one is with a sophisticated old...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4178856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39330095">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 18 17:57:03 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Dec 18 17:57:03 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book my book club is reading right now.  It's a great read; hot lesbian passion; a spirited Indian girl mixed up with more sexy propositions than even I could handle (maybe).  Plus there's Hindi politics, Physics, high school drama.  So far, like it a lot and wish I had more time to read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39330095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29931242">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was just okay. It was great to learn more about Indian culture and how same sex desire fits in (or doesn't).  Dawesar certainly has created one of the most unique teenage protagonists, but I have to admit I had a hard time liking &quot;Babyji.&quot;  She was impulsive, quixotic and selfish.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29931242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1843840">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jun 11 08:08:36 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Friends of mine love this book.  I do not.  It had a little too much cynicism, a little too much bending of moral fiber, as if sleeping with women dismantles all of a girl's discernment between right and wrong...or maybe I just didn't like Babyji's adolescence.  A kind of <em>Catcher in the Rye</em> goes to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1843840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11220408">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 09 07:54:29 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up at a local bookstore on a whim. Abha is an amazing storyteller, eloquent, lyrical.  Anamika is the 16 yo that I wish I was.  While being a typical self-absorbed teenager, She is also philisophical, mixing lessons in science with life lessons. I can't wait to finish it and read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11220408">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22355675">
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  <read_at>Thu May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why are so many potentially good, light reads such crap? Why did I bother finishing this book? The star's for the story, which could have been enjoyable if the writing had been A LOT stronger. Reads like a list of outline notes. A shame that the protagonist and supporting characters are so flat, bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22355675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3271092">
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is captivating and highly worth reading.  The protaganist is one of the most interesting characters I have ever encountered.  However, the book is also a bit disturbing, and I think the author does a terrible job handling the issue of sexual assault- I don't want to give too much away but I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3271092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41690294">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only mildly ashamed to confess that I loved this trashy and delightful book.  Total escapist queer chick-lit about a 16-year-old girl who seduces a hot single mom, the family servant, and a girl she goes to school with.  My hero.]]></body>
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    <review id="4625754">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;sometimes you have to taste the bitter to learn the true taste of the sweet&quot; - confused-she-is<br/><br/>This book is absolute tripe, what was Abha thinking? She must be on crack when she wrote this...it has no depth, no value whatsoever...I could have better spent the money on the circu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4625754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fast read, engaging, but &quot;dangerous.&quot; I found myself sucked into the bizarre world of a teenager challenging (and breaking) the social norms while growing up in India. Although, I daresay that the same behavior likely translates to kids elsewhere in the world--whether privileged or not.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a light read...the plot kind of tries to incorporate too much and ends up going nowhere...but it's interesting mostly for the style and the ideas.  It was fun to get caught up in frenetic teenage explorations of sexuality...especially having had no teenage explorations myself!! :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really got me interested in Indian culture and history.  I was fascinated by the description of castes, as a young woman understood them, and her flaunting of certain cultural rules.  A very colorful book, even if it was only printed in black and white.]]></body>
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