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  <title><![CDATA[A Girl in Winter]]></title>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the reading group. It definitely didn't look like the kind of novel I'd enjoy but I read it and I was surprised how much I liked it. <br/>From the blurb on the cover you can't learn much. It says:<br/>This story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22011214">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is split into 2 stories and comes together at the end.  The first part follows a girl on vacation in England.  The second part tells the tale of one day in her life, years later, during WWII.  During that one day she discovers how the summer of her 16th year changed her perceptions of peop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50943720">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was curious to see how dear old Pip would deal with the novel form, and he handles it admirably. <br/><br/>The theme, as one might expect, is isolation: crushing isolation and pathetic, impossible dreams and the realisation that &quot;though they might try sincerely&quot;, people can no more hel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25327316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know if Larkin still holds the place of prominence in literature as he should. After some of his private correspondence came to light and there was that whole debate over whether you can dislike a writer but still like their work some of the shine seemed taken off.<br/><br/>He's not really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22198787">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was depressed for a week after this book. It's been awhile since I read it, but I felt the weight of HUMAN ISOLATION. I was at a point where I was reading non-fiction exclusively due to attention span issues, but this was so absorbing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very staid and controlled book about...well, destiny, in its humbler forms.  Think of it as a very subtle *Atonement,* with undertones of Austen. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember much about this book.  Another book I read in high school and put on my list.]]></body>
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