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  <title><![CDATA[The Girl Who Stopped Swimming]]></title>
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  <isbn13><![CDATA[9780340921937]]></isbn13>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Girl Who Stopped Swimming</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joshilyn Jackson]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Julia]]></name>
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  <votes>10</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 30 17:26:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 02 09:26:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened to glance at the wildly diverse ratings/reviews on goodreads about this book, because I was kind of torn about a rating for it.  I haven't read any of Jackson's other books, and I've never seen <em>The Ghost Whisperer</em>, but my feeling was that the story was a bit soap-y, and didn't fully reali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21357898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11077392">
    <user id="718278">
    <name><![CDATA[Kris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Paul, MN]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>8</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 27 07:16:08 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 27 07:16:08 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not great. I think I had a problem with the plot being too country. I just don't get into that back-country-hee-haw stuff. I guess don't bother.]]></body>
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    <review id="21383161">
    <user id="263150">
    <name><![CDATA[Tracy]]></name>
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>9</votes>
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  <date_added>Thu May 01 05:54:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 01 05:59:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joshilyn Jackson is perfectly ok with having her heros murder people. It's true that the people that are offed mostly need killing, but still. Killing someone in the past seems to be her nasty secret of choice in both this book and Gods in Alabama (which I preferred).<br/><br/>This book started ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21383161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21296715">
    <user id="1128374">
    <name><![CDATA[Fonda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>7</votes>
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 29 20:36:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 29 20:42:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the other two but reading this one was like watching a predictable Lifetime movie. I too thoughtit was too Ghost Whispery. If you are going to the trouble to put a ghost into a book then at least be original. Duh. Another thing that bugged me was the folksy language. I don't think people in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21296715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19827762">
    <user id="49809">
    <name><![CDATA[linnea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Clinton, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>7</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 13 18:16:21 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 09 17:07:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 13 18:12:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a waste of time. I think JJ must have been presured to write and book and this was all she came up with. I loved gods and between, but this one stunk. Only redeming quality was Thalia. I wish she just took that chatacther and went another direction. ]]></body>
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    <review id="18828133">
    <user id="990372">
    <name><![CDATA[Dena]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Parkville, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>7</votes>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 09:57:52 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 28 04:47:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 04 09:53:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think this was as good as her first two books.  The plot was a little far-fecthed and I was tired of all the eccentric people in it.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="19320271">
    <user id="728999">
    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 02 15:29:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 18 14:11:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very disappointed in this book.  The plot was decent but moved way to slow.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="18416691">
    <user id="436583">
    <name><![CDATA[Kendra]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Indianapolis, IN]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 12 10:49:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this author's first book a 5 and her second book a 4...see a pattern?  I think she had a good idea with this book, but it just didn't come together in the right way for me.  This is a ghost story/whodunit that begins when the main character, Laurel, awakens to find the ghost of a drowned girl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18416691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18949061">
    <user id="634689">
    <name><![CDATA[Julie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>5</votes>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 29 17:31:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 08 12:07:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This would make a great Lifetime movie. As a book, it moved too slowly. It took a really long time to move from the initiating action (girl drowned in pool) to any subsequent action because the main character Laurel kept revisiting her past. Truly, she is haunted by her past, and it's not as if the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18949061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19609946">
    <user id="755434">
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Charlotte, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 06 19:50:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 06 19:58:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love, love, love Southern writers, and J.J. is one of my favorites.  I was a little dissappointed with this book, though. It was intriguing and I finished it quickly, but I felt like it was written really fast. I also thought that the real story was between Laurel and her mother, which wasn't expl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19609946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18924202">
    <user id="981303">
    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Alamos, NM]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 29 10:46:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 01 13:04:49 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have liked to give this book 3.5 stars.  I found it started out well and although the promise of the first few pages did not last until the end (the plot was slow after the initial rush and it finished on a schmaltzy note), I did find that I was eager to see how the story unfolded and I was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18924202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24196141">
    <user id="221065">
    <name><![CDATA[daysgoby]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Nova Scotia, Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 10 19:59:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 18 06:17:31 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so excited for this book. SO excited.<br/><br/>I loved gods In Alabama (I've re-read it, which I don't usually do) and really, really liked Between, Georgia. <br/><br/>And then this book was really hard to get through.<br/><br/>Well, that's not totally true. The first 200 pages were too ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24196141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69422165">
    <user id="2497423">
    <name><![CDATA[Susan]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 30 05:59:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 30 06:07:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book's main character. Laurel, is introduced by a ghost. One of three who visit her life throughout the story. The book's a mystery; I only gave it three stars because it was somewhat predictable, although the writing was pretty good and it was interesting enough.<br/>The writer kept referring...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69422165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27848889">
    <user id="330598">
    <name><![CDATA[LibrariAnne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Athens, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this one by Jackson whose other two books (Between, Georgia and gods in Alabama) I really enjoyed. I agree with the review which said the first 200 pages were good. I got that far and was excited. I liked Laurel and her wild sister Thalia, plus character of David the husband wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27848889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11986047">
    <user id="620387">
    <name><![CDATA[Joanna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 08 12:22:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 12 06:05:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was perfectly readable and I admit to staying up too late to finish it.  But none of the characters really stood out the way that certain characters in <em>gods in Alabama</em> and <em>Between, Georgia</em> did.  The characterizations of the children in the story were completely flat and ghosts were added t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11986047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16968791">
    <user id="189840">
    <name><![CDATA[A.]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Carrboro, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 04 06:23:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 07 05:52:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was enjoyable -- she's a great writer, in terms of ear for language -- but I found it far more complex than her first two novels, and consequently a little too ambitious.  There was so much going on behind the scenes in terms of plot that I felt we lost some character development.  Glad I read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16968791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21132249">
    <user id="699599">
    <name><![CDATA[Angela]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Millington, NJ]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 27 18:28:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just so-so. Roped me in and kept me going but ultimately was a bit unsatisfying and too pat of an ending. Didn't believe the finale. Too contrived.]]></body>
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    <review id="27894168">
    <user id="997218">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminds me too much of a Jodi Picoult novel--set in suburbia with dark mysteries residing within the homes' polished exteriors.  Ugh.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jackson does what she does best in this book - create slightly crazy, thoroughly believable, deeply Southern characters.  This book centers around two sisters, Laurel &amp; Thalia.  As always, Jackson does a good job of creating an interesting plot to surround and propel her characters forward.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30259460">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow this was a good book. It impressed me more than anything I've read in years. But now that I'm trying to pinpoint what made it so special, I'm stuck. Laurel, the main character, tries to distance herself from her family's white trash past by settling with her husband and daughter in a gated Flori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20008663">more...</a>]]></body>
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