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  <title><![CDATA[The Sweetheart Season: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Though most men had returned to their hometowns after World War II, few came back to the tiny village of Magrit, Minnesota. Irini, a nineteen year-old woman, works in the Scientific Kitchen at Margaret Mill, a cereal factory, with most of Magrit's other eligible bachelorettes. Hoping to promote his business and attract some suitors for his staff, the owner of the mill forms a women's baseball team called the Sweetwheat Sweethearts. Irini, who wields a fearsome throwing arm, strong from kneading bread dough, is the team's star center fielder and her successes, failures, and revelations on and off the ball field are endearingly recalled by her now grown daughter.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karen Joy Fowler]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 24 06:13:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  The writer obviously loved her characters, faults and all, in a way that reminded my of John Irving or Ann Tyler.  The prose was clear and engaging.  And the story, about a dying mill town after WW II, really gave me a sense of that time.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 18 13:18:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An absorbing story about girls coming of age during World War II in a small north-midwest town. It's hard to create an ingenuous character who doesn't come off as an annoying goody-goody, but Karen Joy Fowler succeeds with the very human and likable Irini.  Irini is the daughter of a widower, one of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53146790">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 21:38:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 06 09:09:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has received accolades and was a Ballantine Reader's Circle selection...but perhaps akin to Anne Tyler and Carol Shields, I just didn't find the writing very interesting. She introduces a great number of characters, many of whom are inconsequential, and spends a great deal of time describi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45530206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30461136">
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 18 11:01:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 18 11:01:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Karen Joy Fowler. She's very funny and accessible in person. And her characters in this book are pretty accessible too. The story kind of meanders nicely along, kind of like in Empire Falls by Richard Russo, and then WHOA, this book is about that? I guess I like to have a stronger sens...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30461136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59573098">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 19:54:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 20:04:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was enjoyable to read.  Good humor, interesting/memorable characters.  Nothing earthshaking but glimpses of different issues the author apparently wants you think about. ]]></body>
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    <review id="50125159">
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 22 19:33:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 22 19:34:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After really enjoying &quot;The Jane Austen Book Club&quot; I struggled with this book and in the end gave up on it.]]></body>
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    <review id="48102551">
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    <location><![CDATA[Provo, UT]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 03 08:00:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 03 08:02:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The storytelling was compelling and the subtle social commentary both amusing and validating.]]></body>
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    <review id="76679633">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 04 05:48:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 04 05:49:01 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun read until the very last page.  The ending ruined the entire book for me.]]></body>
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    <review id="37461895">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although there's not much of a plot, I enjoyed the description of a small town and its inhabitants.  Reminded me of Cold Sassy Tree--except that Sweetheart Season was written with much more skill.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="25309722">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 24 09:50:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had bypassed this book earlier, based on the subject matter. I thought it was too &quot;A League of Their Own.&quot; But it was much more &quot;Road to Wellville.&quot; Except with ghosts. And a sort of tall-tale America-is-young north woods atmosphere.<br/><br/>The introduction of Gandhi and sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25309722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5514800">
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    <location><![CDATA[Boston, MA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 01 22:02:16 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the description of this - a group of women in MN, working at a test kitchen that sounded like an early version of Betty Crocker, playing softball in their spare time.  However, I just didn't feel it delivered, and I have reluctantly come to that conclusion about all her books (although other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5514800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2186063">
    <user id="47881">
    <name><![CDATA[Shannon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[literary fans of chick lit]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 20 17:27:06 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 20 17:28:54 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book quite a bit. The plot never really quite kicks in and gets all &quot;plot-y&quot; - I'd be hard pressed to say what the inciting incident is, for example - but it is still gently funny and thoughtful. Especially liked the way it's mostly about a pack of young women, with just a few...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2186063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25968922">
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    <name><![CDATA[Colleen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Davenport, IA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 30 18:33:51 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest, I never finished this book. I've tried twice. The second time, I spiked the book like a football onto the beach in Hawaii where my sister and I were reading and yelled, &quot;How is it I am 100 pages in, and there has still been no mention of softball in this book?!&quot; (insert lesbi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25968922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34626299">
    <user id="931849">
    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 16 20:44:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a little strange in my opinion.  It is the story of a nineteen year old girl who lives is a small town and works at the local test kitchen.  It sounds like a nice little story, but it turns out to be just strange.  Nothing really makes much sense and it just rambles on.  It was okay, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34626299">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32288595">
    <user id="1505362">
    <name><![CDATA[Lauren]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 07 17:58:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a cute book.  From what I remember, this really played upon the strength of character and how the main character's life was difficult growing up.  There was something about working in a cereal factory, and then playing baseball, but mainly it was a very sweet story.]]></body>
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    <review id="3864832">
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    <name><![CDATA[Carolyn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fairly light read, this novel is based on the same women's baseball league as A League of Their Own.  The stories are distractingly similar, although accoring to Q&amp;A with the author, the creation of this novel and the movie are unrelated.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="8946383">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hazel]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 10 21:41:00 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was very disappointed by this book.  It lacked a cohesiveness and flow.  I felt that there were interesting characters that could have been developed into more interesting story lines.  I had a hard time getting through it.]]></body>
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    <review id="34305369">
    <user id="1117009">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Aberdeen, ID]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[the lonest 350 page book ever. the story didn't have enough in it]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't actually finish this book because it didn't hold my interest.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book. I was a little disappointed by the ending though.]]></body>
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