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  <title><![CDATA[Troubling a Star]]></title>
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  <default-description>For her birthday, Vicky receives the gift of a trip to the Antarctic, where her friend Adam Eddington is working as a marine biologist. But as Vicky meets her fellow travelers, it quickly becomes clear that some of them are not what they seem. Vicki's trip into adventure becomes a journey into icy danger.</default-description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Madeleine L'Engle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been since junior high or early high school that I last read Madeleine L'Engle's Austin Family books.  I remember LOVING Vicky's experiences with the dolphins.  Other than that, I only have vague memories of the storylines.  I never reread any of them, as I have the Wrinkle in Time series sever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28276372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a really long time ago so forgive me if I have a few gaps in my review. Thanks. Here we go.<br/><br/>We've been falling all over the beloved Austin family for ages. They're realness, they're emotions, they're stories. But we especially love Vicky Austin, our young horoin who gets loade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66893459">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 10:32:56 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 10:38:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a continuation/sequel to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= A Ring of Endless Light" title=" A Ring of Endless Light"> A Ring of Endless Light</a>, but it's not nearly as good as that one. There's no magic to it, none of L'Engle's usual mystery.<br/><br/>It is a mystery story, but it's a political mystery rather than a metaphysical one. Our heroine goes to Antarctica and gets caught u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39295238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9873875">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 03 07:11:09 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 01 18:22:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[the last of the austin family novels- perhaps not as good as i remembered it, or as good as the others in the series. adam's rich aunt serena, who lives conveniently near the austin's home, takes a shining to vicky and send her on an educational antarctic cruise. a highlight of the cruise, for vicky...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9873875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16747973">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who particularly liked &quot;A Swiftly Tilting Planet&quot;, perhaps, but not exclusively]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 29 23:31:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 29 23:39:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love love loved it. Been a while since a book demanded I pick it up, particularly when I didn't intend to (e.g. in bed on verge of sleep, which then is postponed because...), and held me captive until I finished. I wish they'd do that more often.<br/><br/>Sometimes the things you're most suspiciou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16747973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44337688">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 17:39:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Troubling a Star was a very interesting and exciting book! this book had adventure, romance, heartbreak, and excitment at every turn!! Vicki the main character had so many decisions to make in this book and to her she thought to much adventure.  In this book you get to see what the trip would be lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44337688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45760702">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a very good book. i cant remember if it has a good ending or not... but i think it does. this book at the beginning of every chapter has a flashback kinda thing from when she's on the iceberg, kind of a foreshadowing thing i guess. it is about a girl who gets on a boat and goes to antartica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45760702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40734701">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 17:55:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a pretty good book, not the best I've read from L'Engle but still entertaining. I enjoyed the mystery aspect of the plot, some of the characters who were introduced, and learning a great deal about Antarctica in the process, including a ton of new info on penguins. Recommended if you're alr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40734701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30268519">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm longing for the first two books in the series where normal things happened to normal people. Now the normal people are getting involved in international plots, nuclear weapons, kidnapping, etc. - oh, yeah - in Antarctica. It's a bit much to swallow. I could sort of go along with that kind of thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30268519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56137140">
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!  My first book involving the Austin's, I'll have to read the others soon.  I'm going to read L'Engle's account of her own trip to Antarctica very soon as well.  This was a better version of The White Darkness, I thought.]]></body>
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    <review id="41629792">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my.  This is just bad writing, clunky didactic dialogue, and pathetic politics.  Bonus points for the cool Antarctic setting.  It's clearly a L'Engle book - has her fingerprints all over it - but she really lost her ability to finesse.]]></body>
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    <review id="40701619">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I were reading this in Junior High instead of Pet Sematary.  Nevertheless, it was not very engaging as an adult.  Not sure what drew me to it now, except that it was unread and on my bookshelf.]]></body>
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    <review id="67390444">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vicky Austin sails to Antarctica, a gift from Adam Eddington's great-aunt Serena. The politics of imaginary country Vespugia &quot;drive&quot; the plot -- it didn't work for me. ]]></body>
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    <review id="39116002">
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    <body><![CDATA[The book moved somewhat slowly, but I did like the suspense and trying to figure out the mystery in the end.  Though some of it I predicted..]]></body>
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    <review id="6098205">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read because of the passing of Ms. L'Engle. I really wanted to read the Time books, but am avoiding them because my current project is about normal people sliding off into the fantastic; and Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which have a tendency to invade my imagination. <br/><br/>This was never o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6098205">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51519620">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is like the greatest book of all time. I love the messages that it sends to its readers. I can't help but brag that I've read it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Continuation of the Austins series. This one is political, while still mixing in history and science and discovery and music. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 22 17:42:19 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 22 17:51:07 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that you should read this book because it is about adventure. It always has new, exciting surprises. I wish there were more books like this. This book is full of emotions and obstacles which are solved in a interesting way. I thought this book was adventurous because of how this family with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10891056">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 16 22:54:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 16 22:54:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not what I had originally thought, but in the end, it was a great story and a quick read.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri May 30 10:00:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 14:11:03 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Madeleine L'Engle's Austin family series tends to be pretty weak overall, when compared with anything from the O'Keefe family series (excepting the terrible Arm of the Starfish from the O'Keefe family series).  L'Engle seems to prefer being able to mix fantasy elements into a story (and who can blam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23308754">more...</a>]]></body>
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