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    <body><![CDATA[I did not relate well to the main character, a woman who married directly out of high school who lived in the same house her entire life and regretted never having set out on her own at any point in her life. So, I dragged through the plot, which sent the main character to start an anonymous life in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46576292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne Tyler is my go-to author for easy, enjoyable fiction.  I don't do chick lit or romance novels, so Anne Tyler is my vacation reading.  (Side note: About 8 years ago, I decided I could make my fortune writing romance novels.  Easy, right?  My first step was to familiarize myself with the genre, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17321421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this book for over ten years and just now have gotten around to reading it. It's been a long time since I've read Anne Tyler, and I thoroughly enjoyed Ladder of Years. I couldn't put it down. I hope women today go into marriage with a little more sense and self-assurance than in the day of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38954319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe I read this book right before Jesse and I got married.  It was a long time ago.<br/><br/>I got it as a book club selection and fell in love instantly.  There is something romantic about just quietly walking off one day, leaving it all behind to start anew.  How would you get along without ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9928344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author has a natural writing style and just pulls you into the story.  At the start of this story I totally understood Delia, I couldn't really blame her for leaving.<br/>With that being said, by the middle of the book I was screaming in my head, &quot;They are your children, no matter what, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69223168">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always been delighted that Anne Tyler's novels are always a lot less fluffy than they seem, given the plot synopses on the back of my paperbacks.<br/><br/>The truth is, Tyler better captures more than almost any other author the inner lives of regular folks. I was surprised to find myself and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58060497">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very readable - but crazy story (especially the ending).  This story encouraged me to follow the real-life story of a woman who &quot;disappeared&quot; from a Beth Moore conference in Texarkana, LA. I suspected that she had walked away from her family, much as the main character in Ladder of Years. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43826459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a long time since I read this book, but unfortunately it was my first Anne Tyler book and I did not care for it. <br/><br/>As a writer, I don't have a problem with almost any theme, because for me, it's how the story is told. Not everyone is going to like every book, no matter how well w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42394992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The idea of this book - a woman who just walks away from her family during at beach vacation - was very intriguing. Who hasn't thought about getting in a car and driving away at some point? But the direction of the story meanders and I despised the ending. It seemed like Tyler just got tired of writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75987485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was good vacation/beach/ lite book.I don't have much more to say to about it. I could vent some negative frustrations but why bother? If you go into it thinking you will be blown away by character development, beautiful prose and new and interesting ideas you will be disappointed. But if you wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62301630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never read anything by Anne Tyler although she has been recommended to me by several people. I found her easy to read but also honest. The main character was a woman who seemed to let life happen to her and suddenly leaves her own comforts to try to be on her own. It wasn't even a conscious de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67711344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How can anyone leave their entire family, just walk away,  during a beach vacation. She spends a year, building a new life, not visiting her family for birthdays, Christmas or any holidays. She is content with her new, emotionless, Ms. Grinstead life... I can understand the impulse, but not the acti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18087997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Anne Tyler book...the one that got me hooked with reading her books. I read this when I was about the same age as Delia. I thought, &quot;Wow! She did what a lot of married women think about doing but don't have the nerve to do.&quot; How many women feel unappreciated by her family like she...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always avoid Anne Tyler's books because the covers make them look like fluffy reading, when in fact she's an accomplished author (Accidental Tourist, anyone?) who draws rich characters and compelling, offbeat story lines. I enjoyed the first book of her that I picked up on a whim, Back When We Wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50391370">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read all of Anne Tylers book, one of the few authors whose books I keep.  I read so many books that I have to pass the joy of books to others. Anne Tyler speaks to me in a voice that is familiar, a way of taking the ordinary lives of all of us and showing the extraordinary beauty and complexi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79189777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love how Anne Tyler writes, how she describes things.  I read this while we were at the beach on vacation... maybe not the best time to read a book about a mom who takes a walk on the beach and doesn't return.  There's something alluring to me about leaving it all behind and starting over fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69641702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a story of a 40 year old woman who walks away from her husband and her 3 children to start a new life for herself.  I guess she felt unappreciated and unfulfilled.  I do not have much sympathy for her because  I think all wives and mothers sometimes feel unappreciated and unfulfilled, yet wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72777950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favourite Anne Tyler novel.  A middle-aged woman gets annoyed with her family on holiday and walks away, gets a ride out to the country and ends up in a small town with nothing but a bathing suit, her husband's robe and $700.  She expects them to come looking for her, but when she reads a story s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49630666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like almost any Anne Tyler book (I think Amateur Marriage was my favorite), and this was not an exception.  I laughed out loud at the police report when she went missing . . . &quot;5 foot 1 inches tall, or maybe 5 foot 3 - blue eyes, but maybe green . . .&quot; Is it any wonder she left.  I did h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45936716">more...</a>]]></body>
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