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false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 21:49:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 22:54:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 20600320 308512 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 5 1 false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 16:19:38 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 16:21:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 22979741 231516 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to 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every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 5 1 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 13:55:10 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 13:55:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40763927 176045 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 10:36:06 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 10:55:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 60460371 1020899 1389715 0385482698 9780385482691 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183208238m/1389715.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183208238s/1389715.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1389715.Foreign_Correspondence 3.50 4 Foreign Correspondence, Geraldine Brooks (Nine Parts of Desire) unravels the rope that pulled and tugged her toward adventure and away from "a very small world" where her family had no car and had never boarded a plane or placed an international phone call. "I'd never imagined myself as someone whose packing list would include a chador, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he's faring in college."]]> 1998 3 0 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 18:07:01 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 18:07:01 -0700 2009
What I got was better, in my opinion. I learned about her childhood, her pen pals and how ...more...]]> 59172451 1560972 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 3 0 false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:22:10 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 07:58:38 -0700 2009
This was a quick, matter-of-fact memoir that wasn't groundbreaking, but an enjoyable read nonetheless. Her "where are they now?" format was an interesti...more...]]> 74074270 1802652 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 4 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:39:25 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 09:53:41 -0700 2009
We baby boomers are The Greatest Generation (of Navel Gazers), and each memoir has a twist that makes it interesting. I enjoyed reading about g...more...]]> 13299012 821374 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 5 0 false Wed Jan 23 12:41:29 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 13:00:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52235288 865488 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 3 0 false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 16:24:13 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 16:26:40 -0700 2009 March, which I recently reread. In Foreign Correspondents, Brooks writes about growing up in Sydney, Australia and how she wrote to pen pals in an effort to reach out to the world she wanted to see. It's well-written a...more...]]> 36309036 405638 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 1 0 false Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 10:30:16 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 10:37:55 -0700 2008
I loved Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders so much, I wanted to read everything she'd ever written. I loved it so much, I wanted to write a song about it.
I just couldn't get into Foreign Correspondence.
I probably gave up just before...more...]]> 46147188 344881 13530 0385483732 9780385483735 35 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687m/13530.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166565687s/13530.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530.Foreign_Correspondence_A_Pen_Pal_s_Journey_from_Down_Under_to_All_Over 3.77 163 Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.]]> 1998 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 12 09:41:16 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 09:45:19 -0800 2009
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