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    <body><![CDATA[This review ran in the San Jose Mercury News in 2002:<br/><br/>Do you know the sensation of getting near the end of a book and feeling the thickness of the pages left? As the remaining pages of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's new novel grew fewer I began to worry: Would there be room enough for what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81364258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would read another novel by this author but this wasn't a favorite by any means. The author's wonderful rich &amp; layer discriptive details are lost in the first 100 pages.  It took me that long to truly get into the meat of the novel.  There are short &amp; strange movie/storie plot lines told in a Boll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26894844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember liking this one less than the books I'd already read by the same author... ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been teaching Divakaruni's SISTER OF MY HEART for the past two years in my multicultural literature class. Each year, it is one of the most popular reads of the semester, in lager part because of the romance and fairy tale elements, I believe. I usually don't like to read sequels to books I'm t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27439474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Vine of Desire is the poignant story of two cousins who have, under differing circumstances, traveled from Calcutta to America.  Though they expected to find solace in their childhood bond, they find that living together only makes facing their painful pasts inescapable.  Their pent-up anger esc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22550829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bagus.. ga bosan bacanya(beda waktu baca Saman atau Larung -yg sebenarnya menarik- agak tertekan gw mbacanya, karena cape..)<br/><br/>Isinya benar2 pas dgn judulnya, benar2 mengungkapkan sisi emosional dan konflik2 jiwa antar tiap karakter dalam bukunya.. benar2 fokus.. meski mungkin membaca bagia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37094971">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's sounds tacky but Chitra's writing is like drinking a really good drink. You just keep taking sips. Honestly, I'm not always propelled by the plot, but I am always eager to just keep listening.<br/><br/>This book is about a love triangle between two best friends and one of the women's husbands...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61047639">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because I wanted to find out what happened to the characters in her previous novel, Sister of My Heart. I don't want to spoil it for you all but I will say simply that 1) Yes, you will find out what happens to the characters in Sister of My Heart and 2) Sister of My Heart was much m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46049947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave 3 stars for this book, not because I like it, but because I think it's good. So my rating for this book is objective, not personal (Moderator, don't you think the rating should be &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot;, not &quot;I like it&quot; or &quot;I don't like it&quot;?)<br/><br/>Like I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2727349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third in a series about these characters - Anju, Sudha and Sunil - all raised in traditional Indian families but living in America.  The storyline may be somewhat predictable but the author's writing style and powers of description is exquisite.  My favorite book by Divakaruni, however, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53274772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because it was the sequel to a book (Sister of My Heart) that I fell in love with over the summer.  Unfortunately, it was not nearly as good and I was almost sad that I read it because I would have liked to leave the memory of the first book just as it was.  Oh well!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the sequel to <u>Sister of My Heart</u>.  While I was happy to be able to read more about the characters, I didn't like where the story went and didn't think the book was nearly as good as the first one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fell in love with Divakaruni's mythic <em>Palace of Illusions</em>.  This was a solid, realistic novel of immigration, domestic situations, women reaching out from sheltered backgrounds and exploring their possbilities.  It was quite good, but I didn't love it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sequel to Sister of My Heart, which I enjoyed.  But I couldn't get through this one -- I confess I didn't try very hard.  It just is too much in the heads of all the characters -- too psychoanalytical for my tastes.  Too much angst, too much insecurity, too much &quot;what do I do and wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21688474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Benar-benar tidak percuma ngidam bertahun-tahun. Begitu nemu di Alebene dan bawa uang, langsung sambar. Dapat diskon pula.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so excited when I saw a sequel to Sister of My Heart. What a disappointment!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its the sequel to &quot;Sister of my Heart.&quot;  I just love these books so much!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book, but wasn't completely enamored.  It's the sequel to &quot;Sister of my Heart&quot;, a story of two girls, Anju and Sudha, growing up in India.  In the sequel, Anju has moved to San Francisco with her husband, Sunil.  After suffering a miscarriage, Anju invites Sudha to come to A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15139136">more...</a>]]></body>
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