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  <title><![CDATA[How Stella Got Her Groove Back]]></title>
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  <default_description>The author of &lt;I&gt;Waiting to Exhale&lt;/I&gt; checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she's convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and finds, to her dismay, that her world is indeed well and truly rocked. Stella soon realizes that she's come to a cataclysmic juncture in her life, one that forces new and difficult questions about her passions and expectations.  </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>How Stella Got Her Groove Back</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Terry McMillan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 07 16:52:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 16:53:30 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>More Than A Love Story</strong><br/><br/>Terry McMillan writes more than a love story here. We meet Stella a 42 year old high powered African American woman whose been divorced 3 years and has an adorable 11 year old son Quincy. All Stella's life is about is being a dedicated mother and career woman, that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42276497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37802811">
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    <name><![CDATA[liz]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 11:38:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 07:29:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another vacation read.  And no, I didn't see the movie.  My first, most pleasant surprise was that Terry McMillan actually has a &quot;voice&quot;.  Granted, it has a lot to do with run-on sentences, but I guess because the book/movie was so popular I didn't think the author would actually be able t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37802811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39285645">
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 08:35:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 22:55:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>Once (and never again)</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It's fine for a quick mindless read, and darkly ironic because it's based on McMillan's then-marriage to a charming, younger man from Jamaica that...erm, didn't turn out so well. My main problem is with the story's predictability (which is fine, because it never attempts to be thought-provoking or d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39285645">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="32511699">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bridget]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Amherst, NH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 10 06:21:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 21 11:24:07 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book was better than I thought it would be, but the ending reads like she was over her deadline and needed to finish.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32511699]]></url>
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    <review id="45598926">
    <user id="2004257">
    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bensalem, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu May 27 00:00:00 -0800 1915</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 06 16:45:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 06 17:33:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a glorious book. There is a black chick who has HIV but doesn't have a groove. AS we all know HIV makes farts smell like juicy fruit gum. So this black chick eats a ton of pigs feet and proceeds to fart on a beach in Ohio. The juicy fruit HIV fart travels to Somilia where a Muslim smells it....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45598926">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="27243361">
    <user id="1328212">
    <name><![CDATA[Tammy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 14 15:01:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 14 15:02:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion - the best book written by Terry McMillan. ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27243361]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="51762354">
    <user id="1898129">
    <name><![CDATA[Andrea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Syracuse, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 19:40:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 13 07:13:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my last summer read of that year. and this book was long...It went quick but it was wordy. I picked up this book because I enjoyed Waiting to Exhale but this book was not as character driven. I enjoyed the setting of course and the description of a get away in Jamaica. And what woman wouldn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51762354">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51762354]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="44398401">
    <user id="279142">
    <name><![CDATA[Joanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Weymouth, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 26 09:34:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 08 07:56:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this book for the second time but I also listened to the audiobook (read by Lynne Thigpen) a good 12 years ago.  The book isn't that well written and this time around I definitely found more that irritated me but I'm going with my initial reaction when I read the book back in the late 90...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44398401">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44398401]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="43334411">
    <user id="226653">
    <name><![CDATA[Valerie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Germantown, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 05:40:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 05:46:14 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few years ago, thought I'd take along a light, but engaging novel to wile away the hours of down time spent lolling around the beaches of Barbados.  Brought along this book. Absolutely hated it! I threw it across the room, the beach, the hotel lobby every time I reconsidered trying to complete it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43334411">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="44354395">
    <user id="415068">
    <name><![CDATA[Lucy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 19:55:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 04 07:53:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved the way this book was written. It is narrated the way an internal monologue would sound. I felt as if I was really in the characters head, hearing her correct herself, encourage herself, revise her thoughts. The plot was okay, kind of slow, but the storytelling made up for that. Most ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44354395">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="61330374">
    <user id="2213573">
    <name><![CDATA[Michele]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fairfield, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 27 17:37:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 27 17:37:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This is a fun book but if you worry about punctuations and the use of capitals don't read it.  The book is written almost like a journal where as she straightens her life around the capitals and punctuations return.  It didn't bother me. I took great joy in reading this wonderful story and travel th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61330374">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="55594319">
    <user id="2125146">
    <name><![CDATA[Wilhelmina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Shirley, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun May 10 14:40:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 10 14:57:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This is a one day read.  This is Ms. McMillian life experience and some aspects of it were cute.  However, I found this book to be rather mundane and ordinary.  I also saw the motion picture and the book is much better or maybe my reaction to her story, in print, is more imaginative.  Chin Chin!]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="62357736">
    <user id="2450825">
    <name><![CDATA[Heaven]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mclean, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 06 12:01:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 06 12:12:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stella got her groove back by over coming her relationship with her ask husband and letting her heart take over. She fell in love with this young black man and then loved him no matter what the age was she exactly got married. Stella got her new groove back.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62357736]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="72001378">
    <user id="1856764">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Detroit, MI]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 21 10:54:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 11:07:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I see the goodreads describes McMillan's writing as &quot;empowering&quot;.  What a joke, every book she writes is basically about how women are woefully incomplete without a man.  <br/> <br/>Empowering? Try co-dependent and pathetic!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72001378]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="73804055">
    <user id="727375">
    <name><![CDATA[Rachel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Redmond, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 07 18:34:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 11 14:36:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a cute story about a 42 year old woman who goes to Jamaica and falls in love with a 20 year old Jamaican guy.  Definitely a fluff read, but that was much needed after the last two books I read (non-fiction and filled with death).]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73804055]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="64656440">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jschwabenland1]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 23 10:25:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 23 10:27:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't like it as much as the first one, &quot;Waiting to Exhale.&quot;  Too hard to relate to someone my age falling in love with a 20 something, although it's nice to fantasize.  Loved the parts about her shopping.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64656440]]></url>
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    <review id="49252165">
    <user id="2127617">
    <name><![CDATA[Cindy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 11:42:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 11:43:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun read and inspiration for my first Jamaica trip.  They were actually filming scenes at Rick's in Negril of the divers off the cliff.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49252165]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="9943713">
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    <name><![CDATA[Toni]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lewisville, TX]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard good reviews of this book and started it with moderate expectations - within just a few pages I closed the book.  I don't need cynical, sarcastic, depressing and vulgar.  Maybe it was just my mood but it hit me as something that I really shouldn't waste my time on.  The main character hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9943713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read about 25 pages of this one and gave up.  The May-September romance that the whole novel sits on just wasn't believeable to me.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the movie but hated the book. Stella just seemed so pitiful with her quest to win the heart of that young Winston. ]]></body>
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