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  <read_at>Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such an insightful book.  The sentimental in me really was affected by Hannah's memories and observations of the changing times.  It definitely increased my longing to be a part of a community (a &quot;membership&quot;, if you will).  Anyone want to be a part of my community?  We'll all move out to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43366676">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My grandmother wanted me to read this and I understood immediately why.  Though she grew up in Missouri rather than the Kentucky side of the Ohio River where this novel takes place, the elements are similar to her experiences.  This is an episodic novel that doesn't spend so much time telling a stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13561455">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. This book is a gift. I first heard about Wendell Berry in college when we were studying nature writers and I think we read some of his poetry. But I haven't really thought of him since then, yet I am so glad I picked this up. I loved this novel. It's about a small farming community and covers t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46661700">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that this calls to mind a word to describe Mr. Berry's writing. That word is reverence. This is the story of a woman born in Shagbark who then moves to Port William and becomes part of the &quot;membership&quot;. It tells the story of her love for a man who died too young and of her subseque...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39927499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   What can I say?  It’s Wendell Berry.  I especially liked his image of the room of love, as quoted below and as described in the chapter.  Maybe her life didn’t turn out quite as she would have wanted, with her children all so far away and her way of life passing out of existence, but that ima...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21253155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ya know, I really loved this book.  It made me think and it made me feel, which is the mark of a good book.  Two things that kept it from getting a five-star rating:<br/><br/>Mr. Berry seemed to go on and on about their property...over and over again, until I grew a little bored in the middle part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34236077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rich life story of a woman who belongs to a tight-knit family farm community.  From childhood to old age, the voice of Hannah Coulter reflects on the significant and the minute moments of her life. She draws a haunting portrait of the rural life that was once so typical but was drawing to an end aft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44759195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great one by Wendell Berry.  It's interesting that I've heard this described as a &quot;feminine&quot; perspective, but in the end, Hannah doesn't feel that much different from Jayber Crow or other stories from a male perspective.  In Berry's rural utopia to the gender differences even out? ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60908543">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have such a tenderness toward Berry, for his way of thinking, participating in this world, that this, what I want to do here, is not a review at all, certainly not literary, though he is a fine writer, but a recommendation for living, for thoughtfulness.  Chapter 10, if I correctly recall, is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5210322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i feel a little bruised, finishing this one. it reminds me of a marilynne robinson novel, but told in a simpler voice, and more interested in place than personality. robinson mines her characters' inner lives, berry leaves them some mystery, but both treat the passage of time and the burden of memor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54254222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before beginning the review, I should confess that I have not read the other Port William novels, although I did hear the author read from <u>Jayber Crow</u> before its publication and am a serious student of his essays and poetry. That being said, I loved this book. Not only is the language beautiful in i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69800000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was happy to return to the village of Port William, and now understand Berry's voice, his quiet, but always pulsing, style of writing. Although I didn't really love this book as I did Jayber Crow (who crops up a couple of times in this book!), the writing, and subsequently my involvement in this p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64385206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74901638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wendell Berry has amazed me yet again. I loved this book. Written from the first person perspective of Hannah Coulter, we get a look at another person in the Port William membership. Walking in the shoes of a rural woman who loses two husbands and lives on a farm that's losing it's place... these th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64774172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Quote from the book)<br/>&quot;I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.&quot; (pp. 57-58)<br/><br/>********<br/>Written through the eyes of an eld...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56628741">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the fictional autobiography of a woman born in 1920 in rural Kentucky on the Ohio River in a fictional town called Port William.  Someone must have recommended it but I don't remember who.  From Wikipedia, &quot;Berry's fiction to date consists of eight novels and twenty-three short stories ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27312994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[MCL. Audio (Overdrive).<br/><br/>The story is a first-person narrative beginning with a childhood in the Depression through old age in the new millennium, lived in agrarian Kentucky. Hannah's voice was gentle, loving, humble, yet ironic and frank as well. <br/><br/>It is a story of community, lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52734723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My book club picked this to read and I loved it!  Berry really brings the old-fashioned values back and makes you feel like you lived during the 1940s, when things were simpler.  There are serious parts in the book, but the wisdom imparted by the narrator (Hannah) is key.  There are so many small li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72167370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For Port Williams fans, this was a most exciting release.  Wendell Berry is always beyond a good read.  He's like a summer breeze in the middle of an ice storm.  His insights on America's problems should be required reading in every classroom.  If you love this earth and have not read Berry, you are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41848917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about an old woman looking back over her life in a small farming community in Kentucky.  Widowed early in her life, she remarries and has two more children, but all three end up turning their backs on their roots.  Education has given them more, and they go away.  Hannah reminisces abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64780079">more...</a>]]></body>
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