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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second novel of Lorna Landvik's that I've read and was not disappointed. This novel was filled with such emotional warmth, humour, sadness, triumph and close, understanding bonds between women.<br/><br/>Patty Jane and her sister Harriet are such colourful characters who know how to lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50101013">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a rather slow start.  I really didn't get into it until the last half, then it got better.  Poor Patty Jane, alone with a baby, Harriet, who looses the love of her life. Then follows a path of drinking like her parents till she meets Reese.  Nora, Patty's daughter, grows up amongst it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51614834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Second book I've read by this author and every bit as enjoyable as the first, although I don't remember the first (title something like housewives yakking and eating bonbons)being quite so sad. Somehow even in the early bits the bad news feels imminent, and I had to keep myself from leafing ahead to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71047099">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book and I am beginnign to enjoy this author. I stumbled upon &quot;Angry Housewives eating Bon Bons&quot; accidentally and loved it, so I decided to give this one a try and was not disappointed. I like that her books follow the characters through multiple decades and contain ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50437674">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a hoot!  I had the pleasure of hosting an Author's Luncheon at my business The Red Bridge Inn, with Lorna Landvik!  We loved her and she gave me a signed copy of &quot;Patty Jane's House of Curl.&quot;  I read this book on my trip to Africa.  You should have seen the guards in the Morroco airpo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8196931">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ really enjoyed this story of a family of survivors. They survived everything from alcoholism to abandonment. I laughed out loud when Avel paid the two bar flys *not* to strip. I loved Ione's nuggets of wisdom about life and aging. This was one of the easiest books I've read in awhile. It starts out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38674451">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The characters were so foreign to me. I just couldn't relate to them at all. It had an &quot;Eat, Drink, and be Merry&quot; sort of feel that disturbed me. I know that people's lives are probably really like this and the emptiness that was their life really saddened me.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sort of a Norwegian Southern novel. <br/>                       I tried this a couple of times,<br/>                       but I was determined to get to the<br/>                       end this time; I don't see what<br/>                       all the fuss is about.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story of family and friendships. The author did a wonderful job of developing the characters of the women in this book. I wanted to sit down with them at their table and drink coffee and enjoy a homemade pastry!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not knowing what to expect from the title, I think this was a very good read.  I am certain that the fact that it was set in Minnesota during times I could identify with made it fun for me.  The characters were people I either have met or would think it was a &quot;hoot&quot; to sit down to visit wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42462625">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book takes a look at the ups and downs of life and how it affects people. Tradgedy and good times. People trying to help each other in their own ways, without really having any lasting hope for anyone.]]></body>
    
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