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    <body><![CDATA[I love Carol Shields.  So, when I saw this at the used bookstore, I snapped it up.  As always, Carol touches on relationships with finesse and subtlety.  There's a bit of a gimmick in that the book is told from two points of view of a marriage: one half is the wife's, the other her husband's.  Both ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75756241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a delightful surprise. It closely meets my criteria for an enjoyable book/movie in being the story of basically dull people to whom nothing much happens - in other words, people like me who are changed by life events. The book is set during one week in 1978 (book was published in 1980)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23304295">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Carol Shields (along with fellow female Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro) is one of my favorite novelists.  This book was written more than a decade before her acclaimed &quot;The Stone Diaries&quot; but has similar literary writing style and insightful descriptions of characters.  S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71707910">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 10:37:26 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm thoroughly enjoying this double novel. I chose the husband's side of the book first, in part to see if Carol Shields captured a genuine male voice as beautifully as she did in Larry's Party. She did! I'm now half way through the wife's side, and as with all books by Shields, the imagery she evok...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63451444">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Few authors write with the clarity and utter believability of the characters, but Carol Shields is one who does.  In this book she writes from the male and female perspective, a week in their lives, and in that time you explore the foundations and development of that relationship and marriage, the l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50604015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting premise...essentially two books in one, where you learn what happens during five days that a married couple spends away from each other, from each of their perspectives. The focus on domestic minutiae irritated me occasionally, and I didn't really love either character.<br/><br/>I reco...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75611197">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a gimmic - two stories, one husband, one wife, and you gotta flip the book to flip between them.  But it's great - in a way the second story no matter which you read first is the best, because you know what's going on on the other side.  Takes place in the late-70's in Chicago, rawsome in se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71242092">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is fun concept, as it tells from a woman's point of view what occurs one winter weekend in the 1980s when she goes away to a craft conference. Flip the book over, and it tells the husband's point of view of the events of that same weekend.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A- Two novels told from different POV - one from the wife's, one from the husband's - about what happens during one woman's trip away from home. Really great writing; I love Carole Shields!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite read of 2002. It's the story of the daily happenings in a marriage told both from the husband and the wife's points of view.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[slow, even story of a weekend from 2 different perspectives and experiences]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One story told from two perspectives. I wish other books had options like this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's good.  It keeps your attention.   There isn't much left once you finish...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Happenstance</strong> - Carol Shields<br/>Thanks Page. This definitely looks good.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 03 11:17:21 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1980, Brenda and Jack Bowman are apart for five days while Brenda, a quiltmaker, attends a crafts exhibition in Philadelphia.  Read the book from the pink side, and you follow Brenda's journey.  Read it from the blue side, and you see what happens to Jack, who stays in Chicago with their two chil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24311137">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting to read if only because of the format - two books in one - two different perspectives, the husband and the wife. Two covers on the book, one the wife's, one the husband's. Start reading one, flip the book upside down and read the other from the back cover. They both end in the middle of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23632293">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the concept of this book, however, it was so slow and dull and I was always waiting for the climactic part and it never happened.  I am mad that I wasted my time on this boring, drawn-out, plotless book.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Carol Shields is the most amazing writer I've encountered in a while.  This book is starting off a bit slow, but that's kind of her M.O. More on it as I get further in. ]]></body>
    
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