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    <body><![CDATA[This woman can write!  I mean, she can really, <em>really</em> write.  Her essay about accidentally entering a home which she thought was a museum, was incredible.  <br/><br/>So, why the three stars?  Her politics were a little too in-your-face for me.  I know that we all have different opinions, different...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58188700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have given it 5 stars, but I wasn't crazy about the war poems. I'm weird with politics, so... <br/><br/>There are so many good poems in here you must read it. She wrote some funny prose as well, one was about her and her friend wanting to go to a museum, when they get there they find out t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51159713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye is the first book I've read by this author, though I've long liked a number of her poems. The inside flap of the book says, <br/><br/>&quot;In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26228185">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 28 19:18:06 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Studying elementary literacy in school has given me a great opportunity to catch up on what my kids are reading these days.  And folks, it is really different.  What I have read just these past few months makes me sad that I was reading crap like Christopher Pike when I was in middle school. :)<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20637556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I am sad or when I feel a writing slump coming on, then I seek out the comforting voice of Naomi Shihab Nye. In simple ways, she uses everyday images to talk about essential life themes. Her poetry is a poetry of the marrow. <em>Honeybee </em> is a mixture of poems and prose that talk about the essentia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50311896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a collection of poetry, Naomi Shihab Nye's <em>Honeybee</em> is an unexceptional success. The poems here are easily read and digested. Even those that lambast Bush are written in a clever cutesy way and do little to add semblance of an &quot;edge&quot; to this project. Still, I found more here to like tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32506983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a Nye fan, for sure.  I love her ability to take a moment and turn it quietly momentous, and this book is filled with lovely connections, meditations, wonderings.  There's a great little story about her misadventures wandering into a house she thinks is a museum and irritably declining assistanc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31058694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a sterling collection of poems, many political, but successfully so because of their relentless humanity]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a lovely little collection of poems and prose poems - some hilarious (the raccoon on a leash, the museum story) and some sweet and some moving.  I've been reluctant to write a review and return it to the library because I'd like to keep dipping back into it.  I also loved how the title poem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24328069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the end of this collection of poems and short prose, I was smiling and wiping a tear from my eye.  Though some were mediocre to me, probably because of lost personal meaning, I still recommend them.  They make you want to visit other countries in order to get a better grasp on how you view your o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34736089">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of poems and short narratives about life as we live it, in school, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">on the road</a>, observing what goes on around us and judging it occasionally (especially as it comes to the war and political scene).  This is a book that one can savor as one feels the need and come away feeling not quite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21388205">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poems and short prose pieces about disappearing honeybees, airport passengers, young (kids really) writers, war-ravaged populations, and many other sobering and some funny aspects of modern life. If you don't ordinarily read poetry, especially by modern poets, this is a good place to start.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I &lt;3 Naomi Shihab Nye.  She seems like a wonderful person and was very nice to me.  And her readings are both challenging and hilarious.  Yes, I will be getting all her books for my library, I think, and most of her anthologies, especially Under the Same Sky.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shihab begins her poems and poetic meditations on the mysterious disappearance of the honeybee, but her meditations' scope quickly widens. A little gem.]]></body>
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