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    <body><![CDATA[I would add this book to the Top 5 list but I don't know what I would kick off! It is all I can do to not start reading it again...right now and I jusr finished it. It was a good mix between a love story, adventure and finding a purpose in this world. It is a quick, easy read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for book club and probably wouldn't have picked it up other wise. But, I enjoyed it. Don'tcha just love that about book club!? It was a quick read with a sweet love story. The reality of the world is sometimes hard to read about, but it is good to take the blinders off for a second and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13773937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned what it might be like to go on a volunteer vacation.  Reading the book made such an adventure doable and survivable for me.  <br/><br/>What helped make it more real was going to the author's website and seeing video footage from El Girasol.  That was cool!  <br/><br/>I really liked thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14287544">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was such a great book. I couldn't put it down. I loved it! It was based on a true story believe it or not and was portrayed beautifully. I would read this book again and again. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, it made me want to go back to the exciting giddy times of dating (specifically dating my husband.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a big fan of modern romance novels, but &quot;The Sunflower&quot; was a basically clean, easy read that kept me entertained on a day spent curled up on the couch with a cold.<br/><br/>That being said, it's probably not one I'll re-read: a little too cliche.  Porcelain beauty who faints at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16876025">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book and quick read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a really easy read! It was the first book I read after the Twilight series and we all know that when your done reading those, you don't want to read anything else! After reading this book I want to go to the South America and do my own humanitarian work there with the people!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book.  It goes by quickly and can be read in a day or two.  It's about love being found again after true heartbreak.  It's also about how service and sacrifice to others has a healing affect in our lives.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! It taught me alot to love those around you and to apreciate the things that I have.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having never read any of Richard Paul Evans books, I didn't know what to expect.  I really enjoyed it. It is about a young woman who just got her heart broken by her fiance who broke off their engagement,so her best friend takes her on a humanitarian expedition to Peru.  During this expedition, a be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48987578">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book on CD on a road trip a few years ago and the story still resonates with me. I just love this author's style of writing - he keeps the reader interested from the very beginning until the very end of the story. Even my husband was hooked on this book - we loved it so much that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82225569">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a nice, feel good, light, summer read. I have read at least one other by this author and find them to be uplifting quick reads. Not what I usually go for but a nice change once in a while. I liked the setting of this book the best. The description of traveling to Peru and Machu Pichu made a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50800352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is definitely one of the best books I have ever read.  Very sweet story, typical Richard Paul Evans ending.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admitt, when I started this book, I was pretty cynical about it.  I am not a big Richard Paul Evans fan, as I feel he gets a little too sappy.  I was so pleasently surprised with The Sunflower.  After the initial set-up of the jilted bride, Christine, whose friend takes her on a service tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62537941">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, very easy to read and get into.  It is about two people that go away from lost love to find it in the craziest place.  Yet it is not really a love story.  I like the adventure that they go on and I think it based on a true story.  Most of the story takes place in south am...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49815477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, this book made me feel like my trip to Peru was a total cliche because he described my trip to Cuzco, the Sacred Valley, Macchu Pichu, Puerto Maldonado, and the rainforest almost exactly!  Being able to relive my trip to Peru (with surprising accuracy for details that were just the same as what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70043368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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