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  <title><![CDATA[Singing My Him Song]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;Malachy McCourt, bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;A Monk Swimming,&lt;/i&gt; shares the extraordinary story of how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bawdy and funny, naked and moving, told in the same inimitable voice that left readers all over the world wondering what happened next in &lt;i&gt;A Monk Swimming, Singing My Him Song&lt;/i&gt; is &quot;told with the frankness and honesty for which McCourt has become renowned&quot; &lt;i&gt;(New York Daily News).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2001</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Malachy McCourt]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 11 04:25:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Singing My Him Song is the sequel to A Monk Swimming, and Malachy is the brother of Frank McCourt... Now Malachy is a bit older and wiser, and finally confronts his alcohol problem... The whole atmosphere is kind of self critical, cos the book is about the journey from a bad life to a good one, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42658225">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 09:50:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 13 09:50:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank's less talented  brother explains again and again why he's not such a bad chap despite drinking too much and neglecting his kids until the last chapter.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 06 10:21:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 10:22:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in 2001]]></body>
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    <review id="28362132">
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    <name><![CDATA[♥Eva♥ ]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 26 12:03:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 26 12:04:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great book by the McCourt brothers! If anyone is going to read something by these two for the first time I'd definitely read Angela's Ashes first by Frank McCourt as it kind of starts the whole story out for you and gets you sucked in. After reading Ashes I just had to know everything I coul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28362132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8177499">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 08:58:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 24 08:59:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would recommend: Not really<br/><br/>I picked up <em>Singing My Him Song</em> while I went through my Frank McCourt streak, but this memoir was hardly satisfying.  Some of the anecdotes were interesting, but I didn't perceive much coherence between the sections, and I was annoyed that I couldn't figure out the origin ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8177499">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8178794">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 24 09:34:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 25 10:33:52 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would recommend: Not really<br/><br/>I picked up <em>Singing My Him Song</em> while I went through my Frank McCourt streak, but this memoir was hardly satisfying.  Some of the anecdotes were interesting, but I didn't perceive much coherence between the sections, and I was annoyed that I couldn't figure out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8178794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17585625">
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    <name><![CDATA[Echo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kansas City, MO]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 12 07:31:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 31 13:19:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I disagreed with a lot of what he had to say sometimes, but that's ok.  It's good to expand your horizons a little, and McCourt's book is interesting at least.  (I haven't read Angela's Ashes yet, so I can't and won't compare him to his brother.)  It was a pretty good read, and at times very w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17585625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33436209">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 21 10:55:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 21 10:58:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted this to be good.  And because I felt like I knew him from his brother's Angela's Ashes, I kept rooting for Malachy to tell me a good story.  But it just didn't happen.  I gave up about half way through.]]></body>
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    <review id="16529710">
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 27 12:12:25 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you've read Angela's Ashes, you must read Tis.  It's so amazing to see the other brothers story of his life.  He was so completely different from Frank, and the lifestyle he lived was so crazy!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty much the same review I gave to A Monk Swimming -- fun, forgettable, sort of like the rambling, entertaining drunken conversation with a stranger that you only half-remember the next morning.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Malachy McCourt, and wish he had written 20 more books. His style, his humor, and his amazing storytelling ability makes this book well worth the effort.]]></body>
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    <review id="26709887">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Malachy is no shirk of writer also. Brilliant verbal play remind me of the Wodehousian heritage of both McCourt brothers.]]></body>
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    <review id="11952869">
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    <body><![CDATA[Finishing out my Mcourt reading, hey once your so invested why not just continue? ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[He ain't his brother, that's for sure.]]></body>
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