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  <title><![CDATA[The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroilied in quite a hot Cold War--and her country's enemies find themsleves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1966</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, Book 1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Gilman]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 28 08:27:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 28 08:33:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love all the Dorothy Gilman books, the Mrs. Pollifax mystery series as well as her other books outside the famous series.  <br/><br/>I'm reading my way through a couple of dozen of them now, back-to-back.<br/><br/>What fun.<br/><br/>I adore her deep insights about all kinds of people and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28503220">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 10 14:30:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 10 14:39:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you enjoy Miss Marple, you'll like her American counterpart Mrs. Pollifax.  The Mrs. Pollifax series were more suspenseful than I believed it would be, seeing how the heroine of the novel is in her 60s.  However, that's part of the books--most people underestimate Mrs. Pollifax.  This is the firs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26889677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5681631">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 04 21:01:22 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 04 21:07:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's taken me forever to read one of these Mrs. Pollifax books because I just didn't think a book could be entertaining enough for me with the heroin being an old lady.  But then my sister told me how much she loves these books and how wonderfully fun and charming they are... she even lent me her en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5681631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73232514">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 02 14:13:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 05 21:43:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for our next book club meeting.  I must say that the copy I read made it less than pleasant to read.  Due to my limited time, I had to request the large print edition from the library, which was not only clothed in a wretched blue library binding, but was in nasty shape as well.  water d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73232514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57350160">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 26 06:03:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 26 06:42:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just re-read this for the umpteenth time.  I love Mrs. Pollifax and want to be just like her when I grow up!<br/>Reading some of the reviews by other readers was interesting.  A few made me wonder how well they had read the book - &quot;Mrs. Pollifax is in her eighties,&quot; for example, when she'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57350160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42099762">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 06 09:55:56 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 09:56:35 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A cute little old lady who has raised her family, outlived her husband and is growing tired of her small life of volunteering and going to her garden club decides to be a spy and so shows up unannounced at the CIA headquarters to volunteer. To enjoy what comes next you will have to seriously suspend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42099762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47578301">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute little book, but nothing more. It must be that I just don't like Cold War era spy novels, because I really like the character of Mrs. Pollifax. I could have done with less of the anti-Communist preaching -- an example of which was a scene where Mrs. Pollifax astounds her poor benighted captors ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47578301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69813846">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 02 10:22:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 15:34:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun read, requiring a somewhat substantial suspension of disbelief.  While I loved our heroine, it was hard sometimes to remember she was in her late 60s and to believe that any of the storyline was plausible.  At the same time, that unbelievability is part of the charm of the story.  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69813846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70187195">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 05 16:30:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So many Good Read friends have raved about &quot;dear Mrs. Pollifax.&quot;  I think I read one of the series some time ago, but I decided to read the first one.  It was fun!  This one explains how she got into the spy business and relates her first adventure.  Unrealistic? Yes!  Unbelievable? Yes!  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70187195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74921674">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tracey]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 18 10:15:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 14:06:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fun and engaging story! I think I relate so well to the main character, Mrs. Polifax because she is so much like me. When she goes in search of something to bring meaning into her retired widowed life she gets a lot more than she bargained for. What is that saying in the Wizard of Oz about lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74921674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36329317">
    <user id="1286065">
    <name><![CDATA[Marla]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a fun read. The widowed Emily Pollifax is bored of garden club, card parties, and all the other past times of elderly matrons. With her children raised and gone, she feels life is not worth living anymore.  When her Doctor suggests that she go out and do the things she has always wante...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36329317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52810725">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 15 14:19:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 15 14:21:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first of the Mrs. Pollifax books. They are a bit dated now but I still love them. Mrs. Pollifax is an eighty year old woman who decides to fullfill a life-long dream of becoming a spy. She goes to CIA headquarters to volunteer, and through a series of coincidences, actually becomes an courier fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52810725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48376548">
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 05 19:14:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sort of fun in a campy way.  This book is about a retired widow who gets bored with her life and decides to go to the CIA's office in New York to ask for a job as a spy.  Through a series of coincidental circumstances, she gets mistaken for a spy already in the employ of the CIA, and when the mistak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48376548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56924127">
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    <name><![CDATA[Delene]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Dorothy Gilman while teaching in Panguitch.  This is her first spy thriller using a middle-aged woman named Emily Pollifax.  She walks into the CIA  volunteers to be a spy.  The CIA sends her to Mexico and the adventure begins.  Dorothy Gilman uses humor and fun through her stories.  If you w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56924127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41539343">
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 10:49:48 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My thanks to the music student who gave me this fun novel as a Christmas present.  VERY entertaining!  I loved the protagonist(s), although I admit to a wryly amused observation that Americans don't normally speak like Brits unless they are consciously imitating them.  The author (who lives in the U...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41539343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50606259">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jolynne]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick read.  The story was quite unbeleivable, but very entertaining.  The spy aspect is out of date because it was written in the 60's (I think), and the world has changed so much.  But, I really liked the book.  Mrs. Pollifax is a mix between Miss Marple and Angela Lansbury.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this series because it is light reading but still a &quot;who done it&quot;.  Mrs. Pollifax reminds me of &quot;Miss Marple&quot;, American style.  Mrs. Pollifax has a lot more zip.  Hope eternal for the young at heart.  Could not wait to see what she would get into (and out of) next.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although a bit dated, I really enjoyed meeting Mrs. Pollifax in this first book in the series. She is courageous and resourceful and I was surprised at the amount of action in this book. She is kidnapped and taken to an Albanian prison where she leads an escape to the Mediteranean. Quite a fun read!<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46673308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read all of the Mrs. Pollifax Books, and all of Dorothy Gilman's Books.  They are light and easy to read, yet informative.  She explains a side of life that I am interested in - but do not know a lot about.  Also, these books are about successful women.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so different than most of the others we've read for book club! It was a fun, lighthearted and entertaining book.<br/><br/>After reading this I was able to get another Mrs. Pollifax book on CD which was equally entertaining. Mrs. Pollifax is quite a character!]]></body>
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