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  <title><![CDATA[Kissing Kate]]></title>
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  <default_description>Kate was Lissa's best friend. They've shared everything for four years. Then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss Lissa, and Lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending Lissa doesn't exist. Confused and alone, Lissa's left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, Lissa's beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lauren Myracle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 17 12:21:46 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, I like this book. I like realistic teen fiction, and this fits that genre exactly. Things get awkward with Lissa and her best friend, Kate, after a drunken night at a party. Though, Kate was the only one who was drunk during the kiss. It confuses me that on the back of the book, it says that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32533035">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kissing Kate<br/>Lauren Myracle<br/>Penguin Group, 2003, 198 pages, $7.99<br/>Friendship, Homosexuality, Lesbians, Identity<br/>978-0-14-240869-8<br/><br/>One summer night at a party, Kate, a drunk 16 year old, kisses her best friend Lissa. After awkward weeks of avoiding each other Kate tries...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49435755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60202883">
    <user id="2228417">
    <name><![CDATA[Andrea]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 13:19:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 05:59:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://thelilbookworm.blogspot.com">The Little Bookworm</a><br/><br/>One night at a party, Lissa's best friend leans in for a kiss and Lissa kisses her back. Now Kate is ignoring Lissa and pretending nothing happened while Lissa is angry and confused. The two friends use to mean everything to each other and one kiss is getting in the wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60202883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61874457">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 06:19:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 28 06:28:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Original review <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://zenleaf.blogspot.com/2009/07/kissing-kate-by-lauren-myracle.html">here</a>.<br/><br/>Lissa and Kate have been best friends for years, but right before their junior year in high school, the two make out at a party, and suddenly Kate acts as if Lissa no longer exists. Lissa is left confused, both about their friendship and about her sexuality, and it t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61874457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33634311">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 23 13:44:05 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 08 09:43:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book hoping for a teen girl struggling to figure out her sexuality. Instead, I get a book about lucid dreaming, which I have no interest in. There is barely any mention of her questioning her sexuality.]]></body>
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    <review id="66304651">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 05 10:16:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 05 10:48:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since middle school, pretty and popular Kate and funny and unique Lissa thought nothing could come between them. What they didn't know is that the bond that bound them together as friends could be the catalyst to their separation. When inebriated Kate kisses sober Lissa, Lissa can no longer repress ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66304651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52419367">
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    <name><![CDATA[♔ Jessica Marie]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 30 13:01:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading Kissing Kate. The book is a look into the lives of two best friends whose friendship ends when the two girls share a kiss. Lissa discovers that she has always been in love Kate, while Kate precedes to pretend Lissa does not exist. This causes more problems than meets the eye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52419367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17040076">
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    <name><![CDATA[Waffle...♥]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 04 19:43:41 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[UUUHHHHGGGG... this book is so lame... I thought it was like the TTYL triology but uhh... nope. I should have read the review LOL! But instead I got stuck with this stupid book... I love the descriptions though... but I HATE the book. And the storyline just plain sucks. Ariel is the best though! She...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17040076">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77060445">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ames]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice writing about sexual orientation and friendship and identity and being yourself. I loved that the is-she-isn't-she plotline really could have been the whole book, but the A-plot was really Lissa's friendships and how she learned what they really should be like. And isn't that a lesson for us al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77060445">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48410913">
    <user id="918333">
    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Apr 12 18:23:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had <strong>many</strong> great moments, but upon reflection, I am not sure if I really liked it.  I was certainly hooked on it, and read most of it in one sitting, but I felt like I was just expecting it to get better, and I'm not sure it ever did.  I felt that Lissa's emotions were incredibly genuine and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48410913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69572791">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 20:31:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read better YA books. The only reason I'd recommend this one is if by chance a teenager wanted a book about questioning her sexuality. It puts a positive light on a young girl questioning &quot;Kissing Kate.&quot; It is not a hard read either, so maybe for lower readers. I wanted to try to read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69572791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35969709">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good book about a young girl trying to decide if she is a lesbian or not.  As the book begins Lissa hasn't spoken to her best friend Kate in weeks.  Slowly the author reveals that at a party at the end of summer Kate and Lissa had kissed.  Lissa can't stop thinking about it and she and Kate are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35969709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9679239">
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lissa and Kate had been best friends since seventh grade. One summer night, Kate gets really drunk and the two girls end up having an intense sexual experience. For Kate, she shrugs it off that they were both really drunk and didn't know what they were doing. But she doesn't realize that Lissa wasn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9679239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77023623">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lauren Myracle is popular for her hetero juv/YA chick-lit, yet is unafraid to explore lgbt characters and themes.  And she didn't give in to Scholastic when they wanted to censor her book Luv Ya Bunches.  Three cheers! This was not stellar, but surprisingly unfluffy, though still fun.<br/><br/><br/>...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sixteen-year-old Lissa's relationship with her best friend changes after they kiss at a party and Lissa does not know what to do, until she gets help from an unexpected new friend.]]></body>
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    <review id="6998851">
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    <name><![CDATA[Evan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 29 18:20:17 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book.  The main character Lissa (16) is haunted by a kiss that Kate initiated on a night when she was drunk.  Lissa kissed her back and now it's thrown their 4 year friendship into chaos.  They don't speak to each other for awhile then they try to, then when they do finally talk about t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6998851">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, this is my favorite Lauren Myracle book. I think there is a lot to learn from this story for young people and adults a like. Four cheers for Lauren Myracle!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked how subtle Myracle's approach was in this novel to Lissa's slow discovery of who she was.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved parts of this novel, especially Lissa's characterization which seemed very authentic. I also loved Ariel, but I felt I understood Ariel much better than I understood Kate, and I would have loved a more in-depth characterization of Kate who didn't come across as a real person for me. As a &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68449960">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because I was interested in the themes, but overall it never really got at what I was hoping it would get at. ]]></body>
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