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    <body><![CDATA[If you have ever read Jostein Gaarder's book, Sophie's World, you know this author can twist the plot in such a way as to boggle the mind. The Christmas Mystery is a little more innocuous than Sophie's World, and a little more meaty than most Christmas &quot;fluff&quot; stories. I first read it seve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35339124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across this on the library shelf when I was gathering books to put on our Christmas book display.  I noticed it was by Jostein Gaarder, the author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World_Paperback_" title="Sophie's World (Paperback) by Jostein Gaarder">Sophie's World</a> and it looked so intriguing.  I read it straight through, but I think it would be more fun to read it day by day starting on Dec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79656717">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;Christmas is the world's biggest birthday party, for everybody in the world is invited to join in. That's why the party has lasted for so many years.&quot;</em><br/><br/>Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Euro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52468086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1948, a little girl named Elisabet Hansen disappeared from a department store in Norway not long before Christmas.  She was never heard from again.<br/><br/>Fifty years later, a little boy named Joachim was shopping for an Advent calendar with his father.  In a bookshop window, he spots an Adve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9987464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a wonderful and unique one in that it is an advent calendar in book form. There are twenty-four chapters each representing a day from the first to the twenty-fourth of December and tells the story of a boy who finds an old handmade advent calendar in a shop out of which falls tiny piece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16289724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A literary advent calendar its one i try to read every December one chapter a day. Travelling in time and distance from Norway to Bethlehem it is intriguing and fascinating to watch the strands of history unravel and the story tie up neatly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book for the christmas period.I have it at home and have read and re-read it. So many neat twists and turns in this story. Would definitely recommend it for a unique and fun read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this while I was sick.  It was a really fun story, but didn't take as much brain power as Sophie's World (a good thing at the time).  A nice book to read during Advent.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never did manage to finish this story. I became easily bored and distracted. I put it to one side meaning to go back to it and never did.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We are reading one chapter a day--in the morning or afternoon, not as part of our evening advent time.<br/><br/>We quit. I love the idea, but Eli lost interest, truthfully the story was not all that enticing.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="75519489">
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    <body><![CDATA[اين كتاب در واقع نوعي تقويم خانوادگي كريسمس محسوب ميشود.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting read...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the one hand, really cool. On the other hand, I didn't really get the ending (maybe it's better not in translation). But the structure is fantastic and this author again pulls off the story-within-a-story beautifully. The edition I read also had charming illustrations (by Rosemary Wells, I believ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25757853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't really one of my favorites by Gaarder. Yet, I'd say it's a nice story for younger children to introduce them to basic historic events, places and also basic religious (Christian) stuff. Very simple story line, with a somewhat philosophical ending. Nice morals, nice book, just not awesome...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15904885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a unique twist on the Christmas story. I find the current feelings about Christmas nauseating (buying in excess, always wanting more, etc.), and this brings you back to why we celebrate Christmas in the first place.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[پر از تناقض گويي هاي فاحش در زمان بندي است ... گرچه زياد خدشه اي به اصل داستان وارد نمي شود اما بالاخره نويسنده بايد توجه مي كرد]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ye nokte: 2 ta tashakor dar kole dastan vojood dasht ke jalebe tavajoh bood..<br/>...<br/>man 6 ta seke roye dastane yahya shart mibandam! to chi?!<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eventually, I have understanded why the Chrismas is very important for the Christain. Jostein still insert the mystery to make his nice story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great way to spend advent time, opening each door of the advent calendar, day by day, as we go through time and places. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a so-so book. If you read it, and have a better idea about it, then let me know!]]></body>
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