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    <body><![CDATA[Just picked this up at the library - seemed like the perfect book for me. It's about a woman who is unlucky in love who becomes obsessed with HGTV until she convinces herself that what she really needs to spice up her life is to flip a house. Her dad is a retired contractor, but has health issues, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60292519">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This story drew me in quickly as I couldn't stop laughing as I read.   This story was so true to  life.   I, too, was the daughter of a building contractor and my dad was one of the original &quot;House-Flippers&quot; long before it was popular. This is a humorous and touching story about a determin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24064088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  Nothing embarrassing in there--I'd let my daughter read it, or give it to my mom, no problem there.  It's the story of a single teacher who decides to spend her summer vacation &quot;flipping&quot; a house.  Predictably, she meets a contractor and...(well, I said it was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49501622">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Christian chick lit.  Gretchen is addicted to HGTV and rather handy, so decides to buy a fixer-upper and &quot;flip&quot; it for a profit, but of course nothing goes as planned and she has to learn to trust God. <br/><br/> The house details make it interesting, but the romance is far-fetched and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46954332">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun read, and it went fast!  The book chronicles a woman who is flipping a house.  I think the backdroup of the flip keeps the pace of the story moving.  It was the perfect book to read while waiting for my dad in surgery.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really good &quot;quick-read&quot;.  Not in-depth, so it wasn't stimulating, but sometimes I read just for reading's sake, not to think too hard.  I enjoyed it, but it was very predictable.  It had a good message.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book! (My 4 star rating is really 4.5 -  I really wish Goodreads would offer that half star rating.)<br/><br/>The romance was so sweet, and I laughed so hard at all of her renovation mistakes. A great read!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For all of you who like HGTV; this book's for you!  It was a quick read but very entertaining with a terrific ending!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not serious literature, but not bad! A fast-read Christian &quot;chick-lit&quot; book, I guess.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover is stuck. Seeking solace from a broken heart, she traded her wedding plans for home improvement shows and ice cream&#8212;but she knows she can&#8217;t live on Ben and Jerry&#8217;s forever. She also knows that her enthusiastic Lab puppy has outgrown her tiny apartment.<br/><br/>The perfect patch for Gretchen&#8217;s dilapidated plans? She&#8217;ll become a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it&#8217;s daring and genius. She&#8217;ll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. What could be easier?<br/><br/>But Gretchen&#8217;s plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell. And although Noah is handy with tools, Gretchen isn&#8217;t so sure about the baggage he brings with him. Will she be able to loosen her grip on the tools when it seems Noah may be her only help?<br/><br/>A whimsical look at color swatches, mismatched curtain rods, and the building of relationships, <em>A Mile in My Flip-Flops </em>reminds us that it takes faith to renovate the heart, as well as the home.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute, fun read. Take it to the beach with you.]]></body>
    
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