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    <body><![CDATA[I would like to rename this book: Who Cares?  The book revolves around the untimely death of a woman whose charm is lost on me (not just charm, she is depicted as somewhat God like, let's ignore the fact that she had an affair with her best friend's husband, she is still angelic and beautiful and al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25145519">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm just not sure about this one.  Maybe it was too sad.  The story just didn't do much for me.   I still like the author though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh! The joyless sex was as depressing as the obsession with death. For such a supposedly wonderful woman, Sara seemed to me to be immature and narcissitic. And Adam was such a total cliche. I did manage to finish it pretty quickly, which is the only reason it got more than 1 star. I've heard that W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34737205">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In this book a girl is killed while away on vacation with her friends (they've rented a house for the summer) and the girl's mother winds up coming to stay with them.  The notion of who &quot;owns&quot; someone after they die, the family or the friends was interesting as way the way the friends stru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6054886">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was given to me by a friend who is a <em>Wizard of Oz</em> nut - he bought it because he liked the title.  I came into it with low expectations, but actually enjoyed it - though I think the movie with Diane Keaton by the same name actually improved upon its source material.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a bad book--not my favorite Wolitzer.  I prefer The Position much better.  I liked the interconnectedness of the story line, but felt that it got preachy towards the end, and tied things together a little too neatly.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this Wolitzer novel.  It mostly explores what happens when our perceived immortality disappears and how people deal with the sudden loss of a young person.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just could not connect with this story, in which a woman joins her daughter's friends at their traditional vacation spot the summer after she died in a car accident. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about a group of friends who meet at a summer house each year and what happens after the death of one.  Liked it!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book because I loved the title. But the story itself was somehow half-hearted. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Heartbreaking and disquieting. Still Meg, but she gets better with each book she writes (this is an earlier work).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like Meg Wolitzer tries too hard to write &quot;important feminist fiction&quot;.  I get bored by that.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was good to okay, but I think I am finished reading books by Meg Wolitzer.  ]]></body>
    
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