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  <title><![CDATA[The Pull of the Moon]]></title>
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  <default_description>When was the last time you dreamed about running away? In this luminous novel from bestselling author Elizabeth Berg, fifty-year-old Nan leaves behind home and husband to take a second look at life -- and learn how to live it all over again.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Pull of the Moon</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth Berg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 15:29:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating book!  It definitely had a lot of melancholy, but I wasn't filled with despair or depression while reading it.  I just wrote on another thing I read recently that lately I require &quot;hope&quot; in my reading.  This is the oldest character Berg has written yet that I've read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39141900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62926699">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 10 12:27:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh.  I'd give it one star but for the moments of good writing.  The protagonist, Nan, seemed to be a navel-gazing, rather shallow bore of a woman who  gets mad at her husband, men in general, and the world at large when she is soooo unfairly subjected to aging like everyone else.  Yawn.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62926699">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 06 11:30:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 06 11:34:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book.  It is a book about a woman who is 50 and takes a road trip by herself.  She writes letters home to her husband and keeps a journal.  Berg says a lot of things that most women just think about. I would recommend this book to women in their 50's and to younger just marri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26443796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11922569">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elizabeth Berg writes seamlessly in this story.  Her ability to turn a phrase is truly a gift.  What would take me a million words and a thousand hand gestures to relate, she can do in a simple phrase.  I did lack a bit of sympathy for the main character though.  Running away in a BMW did not gather...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11922569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50022573">
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  <read_at>Fri May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 01:09:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of &quot;50&quot; year old Nan, a wife and mother who suddenly decides to pick up and leave home for awhile. Nan is learning to accept that she's fifty. Stopping in various town, cities, villages and farms she meets some interesting people and through them she begins to understand herself,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50022573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="675920">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 11 11:39:43 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 13 08:19:48 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Berg's writing. . .<br/>This book reminded me of Anne Tyler's &quot;Breathing Lessons&quot;.<br/>The &quot;voice&quot; is very strong. . .<br/>If you read this book you must read &quot;Martin's Letter to Nan&quot;. . .a short story in Ordinary Lives by Berg. It's a follow up and gives a wo...]]></body>
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    <review id="59052893">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 09 15:56:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[NOW we're talking functional dysfunction! This is such a nice take on the woman-comes-of-age-in-second-childhood theme - which we have about 4,000 of in our bookstore. It takes a gifted writer with some insight to make a plot that stands out. <br/><br/>The biggest difference between Berg's and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59052893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13295276">
    <user id="46857">
    <name><![CDATA[Sara]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 23 12:12:56 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book gave me a lot to think about.  It was different, because it is just a woman writing in her journal and writing to her husband, but it was very thought provoking.  This novel made me think about my life now and in the future.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="57416018">
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  <date_added>Tue May 26 15:43:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 26 15:45:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[On 5/26/2009 Augusten Burroughs wrote:<br/>&quot;The last book I am going to suggest has nothing to do with childhood, so at first it may seem an odd choice. But if childhood is the single time in life when it seemed our nerves were new and we could feel life itself against our skin and there was n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57416018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63156719">
    <user id="2378558">
    <name><![CDATA[Helen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 12 10:15:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 12 10:21:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book about turning fifty and running away.  Nan leaves home and husband driving west from Boston.  I think she just never had a moment to really think about herself and her life.  You get married, have children and you just become consumed in the moment.  There is no time for thinking of self.  Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63156719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40864470">
    <user id="1300588">
    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Columbus, OH]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 24 21:07:14 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 24 21:12:10 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in the middle of the formative years of my life, when the thought of running away from my reality seemed fantastical.  I was not a middle-aged woman, married with children, but I identified to Nan in such a way that I had never before with a novel. This book quickly became an anthem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40864470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40950105">
    <user id="872942">
    <name><![CDATA[Kelly ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Marlborough, NH]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 13:34:41 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 26 13:37:36 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was tough rating this one. I wanted to give it three stars, but I expect more from Berg. If someone else had written the story, I would have easily given it three stars. Trying something different, Berg writes a story in letters and diary entries. Nan runs away at age 50 - stifled by motherhood a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40950105">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52269809">
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    <name><![CDATA[Harley]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bellingham, WA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 23:22:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 23:27:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well here's the thing. I was trying to write a novel in a November National Novel Writing Month thing, and when I shared my plot with friends someone told me about this book. Because it was similar -- a married woman takes off to sort herself out. So I read this book, and I was pretty irritated. To ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52269809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57994612">
    <user id="2371538">
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 01 14:38:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am always curious when I read that a book is &quot;luminous&quot;; I've read the same about A.S. Byatt (more her short stories than her books).  So what that means for me is that I am drawn in and held by images that flow consistently and continually, that are simple, beautiful, evocative, wholly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57994612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41934803">
    <user id="337591">
    <name><![CDATA[Zinta]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I enjoyed this slim change-of-life novel, I enjoyed it very much. When I did not, well, it was a sore disappointment. Berg's work has, in the past, rated high on my fiction likes, but unfortunately I won't be adding this novel to my Berg favorites. <br/><br/>And still. There was, as I stated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41934803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57731125">
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 29 07:44:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3-1/2 stars.  While I found the protagonist somewhat presumptuous and self-centered, some of what she had to say  resonated with me.  (What DO I like to do?) Chapters alternate between journal entries and letters to her husband when 50-year-old Nan physically leaves home on a emotional journey to fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57731125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Melanie]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 01 21:58:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[REad it before, but I need my hit of Elizabeth Berg after OPEN HOUSE. The story of a woman who's just turned 50, her &quot;mid-life crisis&quot; of sorts ...a series of letters to her husband--Best line so far: &quot;It's always bothered me what we lost when we stopped being able to fit our things i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58143563">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 12 14:50:27 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book.  I think every woman has thought of just getting in the car and running away...some of us more often than others...I've wanted to do it a few times this past month.  I like the detail and which she describes things, as simple as someone she saw in a grocery store.  I have t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23718176">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 15 04:36:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 15 04:37:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is similar to “Ladder of Years” By Anne Tyler which I read last year and liked a lot.  This one was OK. Although  I am going to make a note here to read this book in about 10 years.  The book had some really funny parts that I found myself chuckling to.  But, the plot is a bit week.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32906805">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 18 20:09:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 18 20:13:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful light-hearted book.  The prose will get heavy, and just when you think the story is not as &quot;fun&quot; as it seemed, Elizabeth Berg brings the lightness back.  The protagonist in this story is a 50 year old woman going through &quot;the change&quot;, but it still spoke to this 35 yea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71734582">more...</a>]]></body>
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