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  <title><![CDATA[The Wise Woman]]></title>
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  <default-description>Alys joins the nunnery to escape hardship and poverty but finds herself thrown back into the outside world when Henry VIII's wreckers destroy her sanctuary. She uses witchcraft to win a lover but since heresy against the new church means the stake, and witchcraft the rope, Alys's danger is mortal.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">2</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">1992</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Philippa Gregory]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a huge Philippa Gregory fan, so I don't know how the same author wrote this as wrote The Other Boleyn Girl and all those other excellent historical romances. This book really sucked! If I hadn't been out of town and away from a library, and if I'd brought anything else with me to read, I wouldn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26976005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26154010">
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    <name><![CDATA[Samira]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Atlanta, GA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 02 15:23:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 03 20:35:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed in this book after The Other Boleyn Girl.  The main character was utterly unsympathetic, as were most of the other characters.  As a result, it was hard to get invested in any of their outcomes.  In addition, it lacked the complicated politics of Gregory's other work, but carried ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26154010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="971223">
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 01 11:51:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 01 11:52:43 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Is it possible to give less than one star? I think this may well be the worst book I've ever read all the way to the end. The &quot;heroine&quot; of the story was so selfish and unconcerned with anything but her own material pleasure that I swear I only finished the book in hopes that I'd get to see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/971223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61207647">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rachel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Grand Rapids, MI]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Those Who Read in the Horror Genre- NOT Historical Fiction Lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 26 12:53:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 31 06:00:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Philippa Gregory has been one of my favorite authors for years. That’s why I was excited to find a book by her that I hadn’t read yet just sitting on a bookshelf waiting for me to come along and buy it.  Only a few chapters in, I remarked to myself that I thought I had outgrown her.  Then I thou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61207647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8532285">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 01 14:41:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 01 21:12:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can only suspend disbelief to a certain point!  This, coupled with a very disappointing ending, left me asking the question 'Why did I read this?'.]]></body>
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    <review id="48558345">
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    <location><![CDATA[Huntington Beach, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Mar 24 15:09:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book because of the main character Alys. She is an unconventional main character because throughout the book you are unsure weather or not you like her and are rooting for her. I really liked the witchcraft elements in the book, but some parts got silly and fantasy like. I could see peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48558345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51179494">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I eventually gave up on this book.  Some of the scenes were much more racy than I anticipated, and while I don't consider myself to be a prude, I found myself really shocked by what I was reading.  I felt like, if they were to literally portray these scenes in a movie, you wouldn't be able to find i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51179494">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41974629">
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    <location><![CDATA[Austin, TX]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 10:56:57 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for stories set during the time of Henry VIII, and there were parts of this book that I really liked. In particular, I think it had a really strong ending. <br/><br/>Philippa Gregory is a pro at describing little historical details... you feel as if you're inside the castle, feeling t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41974629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25210228">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 15:46:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wasn't crazy about this one...I like her historical fiction books much better.]]></body>
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    <review id="65791758">
    <user id="298831">
    <name><![CDATA[Shoshana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Jose, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 17:30:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not one of Gregory's best.  It starts out pretty well, but as it goes it gets sillier and the protagonist gets more annoying and unsympathetic.  It starts with the burning of a nunnery during the reign of Henry VIII.  Alys, the &quot;heroine&quot; of the novel, is a novice at the abbey who takes off...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65791758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44954399">
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    <name><![CDATA[Paulina]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 31 09:53:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 09:56:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a fan of Philippa Gregory's historical novels, the ones that are fictionalizations of the lives of real people (The Other Boleyn Girl, for example).  But both examples of her purely fictional works that I have tried (this and Wideacre) I have hated because the protagonists have been totally unli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44954399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25750430">
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    <name><![CDATA[Carla]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 28 10:38:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 28 10:38:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awful, awful, awful.  NEVER read this book.]]></body>
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    <review id="65409396">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kathleen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Marietta, GA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 29 09:46:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read many of Philippa Gregory's books and I must say this is one of my favorites.   Aly's is a woman with many misfortunes in her life, she ends up on a path of discovery about herself and the people she knows.  Aly's life changes many times through out this book, sometimes she acts like a nu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65409396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53282342">
    <user id="1871539">
    <name><![CDATA[meghollywood]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 15 18:19:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about the historical fiction genre is the &quot;fiction&quot; part. History, in any country, is chock full of superstitions, illogical beliefs and outlandish tales. The farther you delve, the more imaginative the explanations for things that we may think in present time we ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53282342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34192800">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lara]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 30 07:56:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the worst book that I have ever read.  So bad in fact that I didn't finish it, and I have never stopped reading a book in the middle before.  I was completely uncomfortable reading about the witchcraft, and the gratuitous sex in the book is the straw that broke the camel's back.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34192800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19820339">
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  <read_at>Tue May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the first time I've experienced something like what I experienced reading this novel, which was the fact that I really liked it, loved the setting, the writing (Philippa Gregory has a way of making the reader feel totally immersed in the story and never feeling bored with it, despite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19820339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55882451">
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    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue May 12 20:12:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Philipa Gregory book that I read. It was an intense story that took you through a whole parade of emotions. There were several times that I had to lay the book down, cursing the characters, swearing that I wasn't going to read anymore. But, of course, 20 minutes later I was readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55882451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely the most disturbing, disgusting, and horrifying book I have ever read. I picked this up on a whim because I recently read the author's other book, The Other Boelyn Girl. The book started off OK, but progressively got worse. Black, sick magic with creepy dolls coming to life, betrayal, mur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48010828">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another one of Gregory's darker novels.  Not as bad as &quot;Wideacre,&quot; which I hated, but what is it with her and deviant sex?  The &quot;heroine&quot; is far from wise - manipulative, craven, and self-serving, more like.  Very little to like about any of the characters.  Set in the E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56977802">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is officially THE LAST time I read a Philippa Gregory novel. I thought I'd give her a try after the so-so &quot; Other Boleyn Girl&quot; but apparently, thats the best she can write. &quot;The Wise Woman&quot; is pure torture..and the more I think about it, the more I hate it.<br/><br/>All th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31119008">more...</a>]]></body>
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