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  <title><![CDATA[The Grand Finale]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janet Evanovich]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 08 16:36:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bought while waiting for my sister to finish shopping.<br/><br/>Summary:<br/><br/>Girl:  [stupid/clumsy/love-burned/focused:]  I am stupid and clumsy and love-burned and focused!<br/>Boy:  [good-looking/rich/persistent/patient:]  I am good-looking and rich and persistent and patient!<br/><br/>Girl: ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48632144">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Grand Finale&quot; was not, in my opinion, one of Janet Evanovich's best earlier works.  The story never quite gelled and moved entirely too quickly to ring true.  It's a G rated romance with lots of quirky humor...maybe just a bit too much.<br/><br/>The story is the tale of a young, div...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45393182">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 18 07:32:42 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 07:33:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you need a break from all those depressing books with &quot;messages&quot; or the grisly murder mysteries with a gallon of blood on every page and just want a bit of &quot;fluff&quot; to pass a few hours and give you a couple of chuckles then THE GRAND FINALE by Janet Evanovich might be just what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78185902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71727501">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 18 18:48:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 18 18:58:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only giving it two stars because it really doesn't deserve more, but I didn't mind the drawbacks as I was listening to the audiobook (read capably, and probably improved upon quite a bit from the book version, by C.J. Critt) in the car and it was so fluffy that I didn't have to worry about missi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71727501">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Nov 04 17:17:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 04 17:17:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a short amount of time, Berry Knudsen was able to see a half naked man, which caused her to fall out of a tree, land on a large pizza, then she had to watch her own Jeep fly off a cliff, see two different cars get stolen and watch her apartment burn to ash. The next week she was living with Jake ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76749677">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 10 22:09:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 10 22:49:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm giving up on JE. This book is boring and the characters are shallow. It was like reading an early draft of a Plum book. JE uses characteristics that she later developed better in the Stephanie Plum series (the amazingly hot guy who falls instantly in lust/love with the main character, destroyed/...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55640463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77139785">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very light romantic comedy and a very fast read.  It was an early work, and clearly Ms. Evanovich was still working on trying to find her style.  The characters never caught my interest, the writing seemed hectic and scattered, and she was running off-stride and tripping a lot.  Although ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77139785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48556392">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 08 13:17:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books where I wish I could award 1/2 points. It was a little better than &quot;It was OK&quot; but not fully in the &quot;I liked it&quot; category either.<br/><br/>You can definitely tell this is one of Janet's earlier works. It was a quick and easy read and had a few amusing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48556392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57356358">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the last book in her romance series and I loved them all but this was one of the best of them!  A lot of people don't like romance, its to unrealistic or cheesy for them.  Janet Evanovich does end her stories happily and they might be a bit cheesy, but I'm reading a book I don't want a big ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57356358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45394705">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 15:54:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 11:23:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute little bit of fluff. It has all the marks of an Evanovich romance: Cars destoyed and or stolen? Check. Little old ladies? Check. Floppy dog that eats anything? Check. Plucky heroine? Check. Too good to be true sexy man meat? Check. <br/><br/>Sadly the plot on this was rather thin. Berry is ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45394705">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66636538">
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    <name><![CDATA[Violet]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 08 07:59:20 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 08 10:07:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard so much about Janet Evanovich and about how funny her books are. So I grabbed this book when I saw it in the library.<br/><br/>I liked the book but not as much as I expected to. And although I smiled a few times I did not find it that funny. Weird considering how much my sister liked t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66636538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61408807">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 28 13:26:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 28 13:30:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the worst Evanovich book I have read to date.  It was the same cheesy romance as the rest of her earlier books.  But girl meets guy by spying on him while he is changing.  And when she finally sees him naked eventually, he says something along the lines of &quot;See it is more than a few in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61408807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58710501">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cindy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 06 20:50:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 09:23:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's fluff.  The latest release in the JE screwball comedies is readable, entertaining and NOT mentally challenging.  Which was just what I was in the mood for when I read it so it worked for me.  All the usual elements appear - wacky old ladies [but not Elsie, sad to say:], dogs, hunky heroes with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58710501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56789955">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kathy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 20 16:38:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 20 16:45:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[when i got on the waiting list for this book from the library and saw the title of &quot;grand finale&quot;, i thought for some reason that it was the last one janet was writing in the steph plum series and panicked a little bit.  i was relieved to pick it up and see that it was one of these little ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56789955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58453506">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dawn]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 04 14:20:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the last of Janet Evanovich's romance novels from back when she first started writing. I do like them even though I'm not generally a fan of romance novels. This stuff doesn't happen in real life, but I do find them amusing.<br/><br/>I also like Janet Evanovich's quote:<br/><br/>&quot;Ro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58453506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63404066">
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    <name><![CDATA[Julianne]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 14 01:50:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 14 01:55:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here we have another fun Janet Evanovich adventure!  Berry just wants to run her pizza business, take a college class or two and tend to the little old ladies that she rescued from living at the train station.  But there was this kitten up in a tree, meowing pitifully.  So when Berry went to rescue ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63404066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick read that focused less on the cheesier side of love at first sight and instead made it quirky and humorous. Sometimes I think it's kind of tacky when the stories go overboard with the whole lovey dovey thing after the people have only known each other for a week or something but Eva...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68941349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just like all the other romance novels written by Evanovich, The Grand Finale is a wonderful mixture of love and laughter.  In this book there's a good helping of clumsy.  Berry Knudsen meets Jake Sawyer when she falls out of his tree onto a pizza, after trying to save a kitten.  Berry and Jake's ro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47698792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read all of Janet Evanovich, even the 12 books that were reprinted after she became such a popular author.  This is the last of the 12 to be re-issued, and I am so glad that we are done with them.  Formulaic, silly, a bit enjoyable but less so as I read more and more of them.  I still love the Ste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48728103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If your suffering from Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series withdrawl you may want to check this book out. Girl meets handsome guy in the most unusual of circumstances. One dog, two compromised cars, three old ladies, and a partridge in a pear tree later (just kidding about the partridge and tree) you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69751096">more...</a>]]></body>
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