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    <body><![CDATA[The recommendation on the book jacket from Jacquelyn Mitchard, starts, &quot;No one can evoke a universe with a safety pin holding up its hem in the way Haven Kimmel can.  In her third novel, she tells a story of an eccentric collective of women with the majesty of a parable and the poignancy of a c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6236176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To me, reading this book was a little like taking a risk, simply because I love Kimmel's Zippy memoirs and feared that this might lead to disappointment.  Turns out it was, in fact, a huge departure from Zippy, but I loved it anyway.  <br/><br/>There are some fantastic observations (I loved the pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14637939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haven Kimmel is my girl. <br/><br/>This book was astonishing.  The mysteries of these women's lives sort of weave in and out of each other so all these different stories pop up and you see, at the end, how they're all connected.  Beautiful, beautiful writing.  It's not laugh-out-loud funny like &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11399335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am so excited for this book...haven kimmel read an amazing passage yesterday about the hurt one of the character's experiences in being shunned by her faith community, and how that allows her to experience anew all the memories, good and bad, of that community. it was incredible - everyone was tot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7806604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a fan of Haven Kimmel’s, and was excited to read her latest novel <em>The Used World</em>.  It follows several women who live in a smallish Midwestern town, chronicling their adventures (or lack thereof) while showing them coming to terms with who they are.  The imagery here is - as always with Kimmel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12157499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an interesting book...I had to pay attention to what was happening with the back stories.<br/><br/>Mysterious and suspensful...never knew what was going to happen next.<br/><br/>Thought provoking and deeply woven as if threads of the past from each protagonist were intertwined and yet I was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62331040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this book was on Oprah's book club list.  I say this simply because it takes a rather feminist stance in relation to abortion, lesbianism, spousal abuse, infidelity, self-reliance and so forth.<br/><br/>The author started out as a poet and it is very eviden...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53605332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's &quot;hitting too close to home&quot; and then there's &quot;hitting your house with a missile.&quot; With Kimmel, this time, it was like fucking nuclear proliferation.<br/><br/><blockquote>&quot;What <em>do</em> you love?&quot; Finney asked, still looking ahead.<br/><br/>I love -- Hazel thought - -your pare...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71023805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p><em>The Used World </em>is the newest novel in a very loose trilogy comprised of <em>The Solace of Leaving Early </em>(2002) and <em>Something Rising (Light and Swift) </em>(***1/2 May/June 2004), both portraits of small-town life in Indiana. Here, Kimmel explores faith in religion, friendship, and family through three female...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45462847">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some people didn't like this book because of the way the protagonists (of which there are three) slip from the present world into a memory of the past or &quot;what could be&quot; - it works for me quite nicely.  At times, I was a bit confused, but that was because I wasn't paying attention at the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51922831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another miraculous book by Kimmel. Again set in east central Indiana (probably Muncie), this is the story of 3 misfit women with pasts that haunt them. Like Kimmel's other books, it takes religion very seriously, with a Church of the Brethren pastor of a very small congregation (about 30 attend wors...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65746500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First in a series of 3 Book Club books which I ready very quickly, sadly because of lack of outstanding literary merit - I have almost concluded that if it's easy to read it's too easy &amp; not really worth the effort.  This was far from entertaining with a strong lesbian theme throughout &amp; no redeemin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61916162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this in a $1-remainders box at Borders. More than worth the price. Had never read Haven Kimmel before, but after this book, I'd like to read her other 2 that take place in Jonah, IN. Appreciated (i.e., have lived in) the small-town Midwest setting. I liked her writing style and her descripti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59760927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm listening to this and I'm disappointed. I'm constantly trying to figure out which decade the story is in now. Interesting setting and characters but I can't keep the time frame straight.<br/><br/>Imagine that--we have the mandatory coming out moment.....<br/><br/>Oiy, this book needed a much...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71689178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This started off slow, I was having trouble distinguishing some of the characters from each other, and I didn't feel like making the effort to really get into it.  I almost put the book down, but I am glad I didn't, because eventually things picked up, and by the end I was totally hooked.  This is o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56196430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was bummed by this book.  It started out really promising, but then it started to get weird, even promoting homosexuality, men are bad, (I wonder if she got divorced or something) abortion.  The only reason I didn't give it one star was that she has good writing skills.  I admit a weakness for wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59036873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost immediately, I became totally immersed in the “used world” of the primary characters, all of whom are part of an antiques emporium in this small Indiana town.  We have the owner, Hazel Hunnicutt, whose own history is presented to us in flashbacks; her voice is revealed through description...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35536079">more...</a>]]></body>
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