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  <title><![CDATA[The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Munro]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Bonnie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In these ten inter-connected stories of Rose and Flo, Alice Munro explores the universal story of growing up; the question of identity, of resilience, and of escape – with a difference, of course, because this is Alice Munro, the Canadian author of too many awards to mention. In June, 2009 she won...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30141285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65973606">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 05:40:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 03 05:45:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Munro is one of the world's greatest living writers and certainly the greatest literary genius Canada has ever produced.  This collection continues in the same vein as Lives of Girls and Women, but is much darker in its examination of human nature.  The environment that the protagonist, Rose g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65973606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46441879">
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    <name><![CDATA[Katherine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 14:27:00 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 14:29:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The small lives of rural Canadians must fascinate Munro, and this, the American version of one of her earlier collections of short stories, does it best. In perhaps the most re-published short story in the collection, Royal Beatings, Rose earns hers, and in the process reveals the fickle nature of c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46441879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49343092">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 10:31:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 10:43:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thought occurred several times while reading this collection of short stories that has been woven into a novel that I was wasting my time - that I really should put the book down and add it to those to be returned to the library.  The side of life that one tries to avoid was its main substance. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49343092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78441797">
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 20 11:34:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 20 11:34:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Munro is one of the world's greatest living writers and certainly the greatest literary genius Canada has ever produced. This collection continues in the same vein as Lives of Girls and Women, but is much darker in its examination of human nature. <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>--------<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78441797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77375551">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 10 17:02:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 10 17:04:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Munro's prose is in a class of its own, and the emotional depth of her characters, her willingness to deal with class in an honest and interesting way, and the full consideration of the breadth of the over-arching story created by these shorter pieces are all reasons that I admire Munro's work...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77375551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60203073">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adele]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 13:21:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 01 17:26:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve been intending to read Alice Munro for a long time.  All I can say is what took me so long?  This is my first Munro, so of course I’m not sure if this is a consistent aspect of her large body of work, in this one she deftly mines truth and beauty from what is ordinary and sometimes ugly.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60203073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70083104">
    <user id="1726315">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 04 15:54:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 14:49:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this one in my Canadia Lit. class my last semester at USU before graduation.  It was alright.  I enjoyed it, but wasn't amazed.  I wrote a paper on it though and got a big, fat A!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70083104]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="71505107">
    <user id="2626681">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 16 21:28:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 16 21:34:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't really care for this book I kept waiting for it to go somewhere and it didn't...  Don't understand why I feel I have to finish it??]]></body>
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    <review id="57613253">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 28 08:49:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 09:49:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again wishing for the half star rating, because this was more like a 4.5 for me.  Love love love Alice Munro, and it was satisfying to discover I like her entire canon from the late 1970s to now.]]></body>
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    <review id="38242246">
    <user id="1487678">
    <name><![CDATA[Anne]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 12:53:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 12:53:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm having a tough time getting into this...]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38242246]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="62371865">
    <user id="2394352">
    <name><![CDATA[Rikakaka]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[London, H9, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 06 13:36:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interlinked short stories - an interesting form. ]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="45328906">
    <user id="1150">
    <name><![CDATA[nicole]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Santa Monica, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Feb 03 21:44:51 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like her writing a lot.]]></body>
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    <review id="52965494">
    <user id="1857657">
    <name><![CDATA[Gabrielle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Vancouver, BC, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stop being such a goddamn genius Munro, you're making me feel really bad about my story attempts.]]></body>
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    <review id="67776243">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 17 13:23:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 17 11:23:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was hard to decide between 4 and 5 stars on this one, so I may be feeling a bit generous. The Beggar Maid is a collection of short stories, most of which were previously published. We follow Rose from her childhood of poverty to an adulthood when she can provide for her needs. We see life through...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67776243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10431976">
    <user id="662102">
    <name><![CDATA[Libby]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Minneapolis, MN]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 14 13:40:28 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 14 13:42:25 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Alice Munro's only work that comes close to a novel, as it follows the same two women (through a series of stories) over the course of their lives. I have been ordered to read this book under penalty of death. Okay, I'm supposed to read it for my thesis, 'cause you know, I write stories abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10431976">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="3690530">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Spokane, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 27 23:24:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 27 23:34:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[About halfway through this collection I had a realization: these aren't all stories about Rose. At first I think it was easy for me to be lulled into thinking they were, but I felt that theory unhinging while reading &quot;Providence&quot; when I realized that the story was more about Anna than Rose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3690530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37988495">
    <user id="1684176">
    <name><![CDATA[Aeron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 17 16:48:03 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Confession: I didn't quite finish this one before it had to go back to the library. I love Alice Munroe, and I had heard this was one of her best books. I didn't dig it as much as I have her other books. It just didn't draw me in. I'll probably pick it up again at a later date and see if I have bett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37988495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73543050">
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    <body><![CDATA[Munro is a fabulous storyteller.  Her characters and language are absolutely radiant.  I really loved this collection/novel and look forward to reading more of her work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of linked stories that make up a kind of novel. I loved Munro's attention to the shadings of class distinction and Rose's tortured relationship to wealth and poverty. I really felt immersed in another time and landscape while reading this. ]]></body>
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