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  <title><![CDATA[The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <default-description>Isabel Allende narra a su hija Paula todo lo que ha sucedido con la familia desde el momento en que ella muri&#243;. El lector vive, junto con la autora, la superaci&#243;n personal de una mujer con una fuerza inspiradora, rodeada siempre de amigos y familiares. Su historia es emotiva, pero tambi&#233;n est&#225; repleta de humor, personajes pintorescos y an&#233;cdotas ca&#243;ticas y divertidas sobre la complicidad, el amor, la esperanza, la magia y la fuerza de la amistad.

Una lecci&#243;n magistral de c&#243;mo hacer frente a los distintos retos que depara la vida.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">2007</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>La suma de los d&#237;as</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Isabel Allende]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sweet and absorbing compendium of the goings-on in Allende's family in the years since her daughter's death. Though it recounts heartaches and sadnesses, the overall tone is wry and upbeat. It's really just a tale of life in a kooky but loving extended family, with emotions and ups-and-dow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20944159">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 18:41:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually read this in English: The Sum of Our Days.  I am a huge fan of Isabel Allende.  This memoir continues where the book Paola left off.  Isabel once again writes to her dead daughter, Paola, and continues the family saga.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 02:03:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyable memoirs from Isabel Allende (I read the English translation, the sum of our days). <br/>These memoirs follow on from her initial memoir Paula, written to her daughter, who had tragically fallen into a coma.<br/>The Sum of our Days begins after Paula has passed away, and whilst it cannot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50782559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45463427">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bookmarks Magazine]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 09:58:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>What seems at first a series of short chapters filled with spicy anecdotes and gossipy chitchat proves instead a powerful meditation on the meaning of life and love. Nearly all the critics remarked that this engaging memoir packs as much suspense and drama as any of Allende's novels. (&quot;Allende ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463427">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73430234">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 04 14:05:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 14:46:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Сборът на дните&quot; не носи емоционалния заряд на &quot;Паула&quot;. Не разплаква, не те стиска за гърлото по онзи начин, който само красиво, искрено и болезнено описаната ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73430234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51270428">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 02 10:51:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 06 07:33:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I was reading the first 30 pages or so I kept thinking that I would LOVE this book.  I did not love this book.  I felt really tainted or something while reading it; or maybe like I was being force fed.  I think I felt that way because it was far too new age for me.  Typically, I'm someone who ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51270428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72207622">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 23 01:12:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 28 23:33:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Много харесах тази книга - както почти всички на Алиенде всъщност. Любимата ми писателка. Книгата представлява своеобразно продължение на &quot;Паула&quot;, но звучи по-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72207622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60900369">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 05:26:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a bit of an Allende fan, and I've always wondered about connections between her life and books. I loved this book. It's a portrait of her Marin County life as well as an extremely interesting, thoughtful, and compassionate woman and her rather unconventional family who have weathered much, yet s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60900369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36626281">
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    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 02 18:49:24 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Allende is a great writer, which made this book easy to read. But ultimately, I found her memoir/letter to her dead daughter to be disjointed  and lacking focus. I was also disappointed with Sayers Peden's translation of many of Allende's phrases into reductive sexist English (he, him, his, etc.). I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36626281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42772153">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 12 06:29:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 29 04:55:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just started the book last night and already it is drawing me in.  I have read everything that this author has written, including her other three memoirs, and I love her books.  I very much look forward to the rest of the book. <br/>1/29/2009--I finished this on Monday 1/26 and I loved it.  This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42772153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51323461">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 02 18:11:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a memoir about the most recent years of Isabel Allende's life, taking up after the death of her daughter that she wrote about in a previous memoir.  This book seemed to have no real direction or focus.  Even so, the anecdotes and stories she relayed somehow formed a briskly moving storyline....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51323461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41352878">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 18:54:37 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 19:00:07 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't get your hopes up--I didn't read a book in Spanish.  But, apparently, this is the only copy of The Sum of Our Days that appears on Goodreads and I was able to translate the title.  That's about the sum of my Spanish.  (Well, that and asking where the bathroom is, but that's just showing off.) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41352878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46855711">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 02 07:22:02 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading about Allende's family. She talks of many challenges and doesn't hold back when it comes to giving her opinion. She's frank and honest and I admire that. Writing about your own family cannot be easy. One thing that really moved me is that she addresses Paula, her daughter th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46855711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52495357">
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    <name><![CDATA[Vickie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much as I would love to say that I read it in Spanish (someday!)-which is, as I found out in reading, the language in which Allende writes her books and they are then translated by a sweet old lady in Wisconsin, I think- this copy appears to be the only version in the Goodreads database.  <br/>A gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52495357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73267076">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wavered between four and five stars for this one.  My only complaint is that the Allende is obviously a very wealthy woman and has all these resources that &quot;normal&quot; people just don't have.  But, when I think about it, I can't really fault her for her money.  She earned it writing books, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73267076">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77086660">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 08 05:55:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Sum of our Days, by Isabel Allende, narrated by Blair Brown, produced by Recorded Books.<br/><br/>This is an autobiographical journal done in Allende’s creative style.  It is a journal written to her dead daughter, Paula, catching her up on what has happened in the family since the year she ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42174163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book at the store the other day and the cover drew me in.  I'm trying to be brave and read it in Spanish and so far so good.  I'm really enjoying it and in just 2 chapters I've already felt tears come to my eyes, so I must be understanding it.  After reading the reviews I'm even more ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71924137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to find myself reading a memoir which reads like a women's magazine article (we have such magazine in Latin America, and I now think she writes the Tía Eulogia articles), not like the memoirs of a serious/acclaimed writer. I had read &quot;Eva Luna&quot; and &quot;Cuentos de Eva Lun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70119216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Allende's second memoir, and she writes it to her daughter, Paula, who died maybe about 10 years earlier.  It is an account of everything that has happened in Allende's family since Paula's death.  As it is a memoir, clearly, it reads very differently from Allende's typical saga stories.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61665988">more...</a>]]></body>
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