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  <title><![CDATA[The Egg and I]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1945</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Betty MacDonald]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 26 07:29:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I'd recommend to anyone. I first read it when I was in those awkward pre-teen years, and I'm not sure why I picked it up. But I ended up loving it, and I'm pretty sure I begged my parents to let me keep chickens, afterward. (They first tried to discourage me by telling me how much wor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25536131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6015747">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bonnie Gayle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sedro Woolley, WA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of autobiographies and &quot;roughing it&quot; tales]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 10 18:08:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 30 18:19:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, there are 2 groups of people I wouldn't recommend this book to: vegetarians/animal lovers, due to the realities written about of living on a farm, and especially a chicken farm, and people offended by racist Native American portrayals, due to the author's own racist opinions. <br/>I can prett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6015747">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5882302">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 07 23:31:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 07 23:31:57 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I at least three times. The first<br/>time I was about twelve, the second, maybe twenty-one<br/>and the last time in the virtual dotage of sixty-two.<br/><br/>My ten year old self took this as a fabulous adventure<br/>story and I wanted nothing more tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5882302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17175854">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lee Anne]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 06 12:13:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 06 12:19:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series also wrote several memoirs, this being the most famous.  It's the book that introduced Ma and Pa Kettle to the world.  Read through today's eyes, it's so horribly racist regarding Native Americans that I can't recommend it in my job, but it's a funny and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17175854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50267371">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 24 05:23:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thought this was hysterical.  Autobiographical account of living on an egg farm in a hill-billy part of Washington.  NOT PC.  Humor a little down on self sometimes, like Charlie Brown.  Funny and interesting snapshot of life in the 1920/1930's in the back woods.]]></body>
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    <review id="56919857">
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  <date_added>Thu May 21 20:32:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, this is the best book ever written.  By anybody.  And, go figure, it's <em>non-fiction</em>, a rarity for me anyway.  MacDonald, as a bride in the 1920s, fell prey to her new husband's long-cherished dream of owning a chicken ranch, so off they went to the wilderness of Washington to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56919857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54397108">
    <user id="2023102">
    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 1955</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 29 14:15:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are books that stay with you all your life.  My mother read this to my sisters and brother and I when we were sick with the flu in England in the early 50's.  I believe I have read this book about 30 times.  <br/><br/>Betty Macdonald's early biography, she wasn't someone really famous, but s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54397108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51605301">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 05 14:36:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a funny memoir by the author of the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books written for children. Betty MacDonald has a wry sense of humor and keen powers if observation as she chronicles her days as a newlywed after WWI running a poultry farm in the Pacific Northwest. She loves to cook and describes delic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51605301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51456325">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1962</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 00:05:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 00:12:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I arrived with Mother and little brother Fin Einar at her parents' home on Prestigaardsveien 1 in Oslo at the beginning of the summer of 1962 I'd pretty much gone through all the books brought along with us.  Fortunately, her step-father, Fin Graff, had been born and raised in EuClaire, Wiscons...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51456325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67894631">
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    <name><![CDATA[Debbie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had first read this 35 years ago, on my mother's recommendation.  It was not as funny as I remembered or expected it to be, but still had many charms.  I found the most affecting portions to be those in which she bonds with Mrs. Kettle, especially the night of the storm when Mrs. Kettle has her br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67894631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53416632">
    <user id="1396977">
    <name><![CDATA[Andrea]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 03 07:37:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm at a loss to describe just how wonderful this book is. I would be satisfied to have just a tiny fraction of the wit and determination of Betty MacDonald.<br/><br/>Raised in a well-to-do family, Betty suddenly finds herself newlywed and set to task on turning an abandoned farm site into a thriv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53416632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32730898">
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    <name><![CDATA[Beth]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 12 16:43:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 12 16:56:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First published in 1945, this book was re-issued in 1973 and 1987.  It was a run-away success in the 40s, partially because of the droll humor, partially because people needed a break from the seriousness of the war.  Betty MacDonald and her not-so-nice (certainly by today's standards) husband gave ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32730898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28407677">
    <user id="1348540">
    <name><![CDATA[Charlie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 02 01:22:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book would be rather like a Deric Longden book with cats and yorkshiremen substituted by chickens and people of the mountains of north western USA.  In a way it is.  However I found Betty MacDonald did not really characterise the animals in her life as much as I expected and instead a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28407677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27776629">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melynna]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 20 08:15:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 11 21:24:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really was quite a funny book, but I guess it had been talked up too much , because it wasn't as funny as I had been thinking it would be. A fascinating read, though.<br/><br/>The things I didn't like: the time line skipped around in such a way that it was often a little confusing. Transition...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27776629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54386778">
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 29 12:48:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[MacDonald is angry at her idiot husband, the stupid chicken farm he decided to start, and don't even get her started on her trash neighbors and all those filthy Indians hanging around the place.<br/><br/>Another good ingredient in a humor memoir. A seethingly nasty disposition. Burn ALL those brid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54386778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38204086">
    <user id="1729623">
    <name><![CDATA[Denis]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Hollywood, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 01:58:41 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 14:21:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't read that many funny books, but this one, a best-seller from the forties, made me laugh a lot when I read it years and years ago. I'm noot sure it still holds, and it's probably full of clichés about life in the countryside, but still, it was quite hilarious, and MacDonald's descriptions of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38204086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60283992">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 20 12:46:45 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 19 07:08:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderfully sarcastic, witty, charming and lovely book written by a spunky Seattle woman's adventures on a intensely strange chicken farm in the wilderness of the Olympic mountains. I freaking love this book. Although it was written in the 40's, it has the sarcasm of Janet Evanovich books ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38923756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has certain similarities with my life, so I've been meaning to read it for a long time. And there are parts that are laugh-out-loud funny. It is deeply satisfying (if a bit mean) to read a city girl's opinion of life in the country. It let me relax the vigilance that I struggle to keep in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54041317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up for 3.00 at a used book shop.  It's a memoir about leaving new york city for life in the country raising chickens  - oh, did I mention it's the 1930's?  But that's the charm of the book.  Could raise a feminists' blood pressure, otherwise a fun read for people who love immersing the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53997014">more...</a>]]></body>
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