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  <title><![CDATA[Andromeda Klein]]></title>
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  <default_description>Andromeda Klein is a quiet, booky girl with an unexciting life. Until her world takes a turn for the weird. Strangely and suddenly Andromeda&amp;#8217;s tarot card readings have begun to predict events with bizarrely literal accuracy. It seems impossible, but it looks like her once-upon-a-time-partner-inoccultism, Daisy Wasserstrom, has begun to harass her. Which wouldn&amp;#8217;t be quite as strange if Daisy hadn&amp;#8217;t died the year before. But what is weird is getting arguably worse. Omens, dreams, cards hidden inside a hollowed out book, and images from a file of comics drawn by a previous inhabitant of her family&amp;#8217;s suburban duplex are all coming together to contain hints of buried truths concerning her family, her circle of &amp;#8220;friends,&amp;#8221; her cat, and her secret, estranged, much older and forbidden boyfriend-in-theory. And as Andromeda tries to figure it all out, she finds herself in a whole world of creepy you couldn&amp;#8217;t even begin to make up.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">8</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Andromeda Klein</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Frank Portman]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 15 20:43:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh man, I wanted to like this book. I love <em>King Dork</em> loads. I saw Portman at a signing, and he read a little chunk I adored. Who knew the scene where Rosalie drove a car backwards was not really like the rest of the book?<br/><br/>Did you ever have a friend who was way too into something? Like, you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77921280">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 12 16:06:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An unusual story about a most unusual girl. Andromeda Klein is a hearing-impaired teenaged occultist who sees almost every coincindence as a &quot;synch,&quot; or a message from the mystical unseen forces that steer the universe. Andromeda's never been particularly good at reading these signs and co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77589932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69953248">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 03 13:15:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 03 13:35:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would you judge me if I told you I don't like long books? You'd probably be right to judge me, but I don't. I mean, it's not a hardline absolute thing; I'm just always, like, three hundred pages? That will take a LONG GODDAM TIME to get through. And I DO NOT HAVE VERY MUCH TIME. And I WANT TO HAVE A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69953248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77889172">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 22:21:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, let me start by saying that I truly enjoyed this book.  It was engaging, interesting and kept my attention.<br/><br/>It follows the adventures of Andromeda Klein, a quirky, independent loner who is interested in ceremonial magic, knows how to properly pronounce Crowley's name and has a crush...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77889172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74990410">
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    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 18 22:33:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 18 22:47:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank Portman wrote another YA book, and it's almost as good as &quot;King Dork.&quot; I really feel like he has an uncanny knack for the teen voice, and from page one the reader is sucked into Andromeda's world, including her terms for the various things that make up her day to day life, like the I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74990410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76871628">
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    <location><![CDATA[Stow, OH]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 05 18:54:21 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 11:11:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very funny and very weird--if you like tarot cards or anything &quot;weejy&quot; (that is, relating to ouija boards and the occult), then this is the book for you. It's a lighthearted book, though, it's not really about 'dark magic', just a lot about the tarot and the history of tarot. Andromeda is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76871628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69830954">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 16 09:21:44 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. I'm officially in love with this book. The YA fiction I read is typically fantasy. This is not really fantasy. It has a lot of occult themes and history in it but for the most part its a story of a girl, and a girls head, and how her head thinks and gets her through adolescence mostly in tact. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69830954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <location><![CDATA[Emeryville, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because I was confused at the beginning with all the magic talk and it took me a while to get into the story.  And because I'm mad that Andromeda and Bethany didn't end up getting together.  <br/><br/>That being said, Frank Portman is a God.  Seriously...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74517845">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was very difficult to get into this story.  You may not care about tarot readings or know what sigils are or have time for complex systems of nicknames and misheard words being turned into offhand vocabulary.  And Portman isn't going to make it easy to understand right off the bat.  <br/><br/>I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65755460">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of my way through this book I felt overloaded, with the density of the text's narrative information, the detailed occult references, the intensity of being trapped in Andromeda Klein's mind.  I like to read fast, and this YA book took me 20 days to push through.  Was it worth it?  I'm not sure....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69466789">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Nov 10 17:17:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what to make of this book. I read it for work, and I don't really think it's a book that will appeal to most teenagers (unless they happen to be obsessed with rare books of magic and unknown occult figures). It's very slow-moving and chock-full of references to obscure 19th-century magi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73553231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70532059">
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    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I attended a panel at the Book Expo in NYC earlier this year and the editor for the publisher did a great job of hyping this book to librarians.<br/><br/>Pretty much he pitched it as Andromeda Klein, a lowly library page, and part-time occultist versus an evil &quot;Friends of the Library&quot; or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70532059">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78278156">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 20:51:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm biased because I'm a huge fan of Frank Portman, but I think this is a good read. It's not like King Dork. It's dense - thick and tangled - like a teenager's mind. People complain that it's too esoteric and perhaps arcane with the level of detail about magick and the tarot, but it seemed really a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78278156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Frank Portman's first book, &quot;King Dork.&quot; Whereas &quot;KD&quot; is Portrait of the Rock Star as a Young Man, &quot;Andromeda Klein&quot; is Portrait of the Librarian as a Young Woman.  I was looking forward to Portman riffing on pop culture and novels, however, Andromeda is obsessed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70841146">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Andromeda Klein is a skinny, goofy-haired seventeen-year-old girl with disorganized collagen which causes her to have fragile bones and bad hearing. Because that’s not enough to make her a high school misfit, she’s also got a couple of wacky parents (Mom’s addicted to online role-playing games...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73401207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Andromeda Klein is different. You may not wholly understand her -- hell, you may not even wholly like her, which she would find typical. But you will tear through her book with eyes goggling and jaw hanging open. <br/><br/>High on the list of things I never expected to truthfully say: that seminar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73055621">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 26 08:58:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Characterization good; but plot seemed to meander and takes too long to get to the point<br/><br/>This book captures the inner life of a very lonely girl suffering with a schizophrenic paranoid father.  A best friend who died of Leukemia.  And a physical disorder that leaves her bones brittle and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75772927">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read &quot;King Dork&quot;, so Andromeda was the first book written I've read by Mr. Portman. I was compelled to read it because of the engaging wordplay on the dust jacket, the seemingly oddball wit and charm. However, I kept trying to wade through the clumsy dialogue, the mass of poorly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74863292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Marilyn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Too long, too much esoteric occult information but seriously funny. I couldn't put it down even though I got bored with it at times. An editor with a backbone would've made this book much more readable. I really can't see a young adult getting all the way through it unless they're consumed with taro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71565702">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't even finish this book. It has some wonderful moments, but for the most part I found it pretty boring. There are too many long passages explaining Tarot and other occult practices, and not enough time concentrating on the plot. I loved the character of Andromeda, and think there was a lot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77173075">more...</a>]]></body>
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