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  <title><![CDATA[Off Season]]></title>
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  <default_description>Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">13</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">8</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Off Season</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anne Rivers Siddons]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 25 05:32:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was breezing along with this book, thinking it was a light, fluffy, slightly overwrought novel until I got to the last thirty pages or so. Huh? What happened?! Why did it end so abruptly and strangely? Why were the loose ends not tied up (who was &quot;D&quot; from New Mexico?)? <br/><br/>I am l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30479152">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read most of Siddon's novels -- I would put this one somewhere near the top.  After the death of her husband, Lilly returns to the scene of her childhood summers on the coast of Maine.  Well-developed characters, a story we can relate to, and Siddon's talent for creating a scene so vividly th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31637234">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 15 13:18:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I toyed between giving this 2 starts or three stars. MOST of the book was really good, and then there was the ending.  My mother-in-law was reading this same book at the same time, and neither one of us has any clue what the ending meant.  We are confused.  <br/>Like I said, good book, bad ending....]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 07 09:43:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[-I am a huge fan of ARS.  I have read almost every one of her books.  This one left me scratching my head.  Why did she end the book the way she did?  The only thing I can think of is, she wanted it to be talked about.  If that is the reason, I think she accomplished her goal.  If you go out to Amaz...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32249985">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, what a story!<br/><br/>There was a time very early in my marriage that I couldn't even fathom a world without Brad.  He's my true North, and I would feel lost and anxious whenever separated too long. It has taken a lifetime of marriage to understand these deep, precious feelings.  Some might ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31195890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30132895">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Off Season is a beautiful rendering of one family, the connections between its members, and the flawed relationships created by secrets and betrayal.<br/><br/>When Lilly Constable McCall loses her husband Cam, to an untimely death, she escapes to the family’s summer home on the coast of Maine.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30132895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30813735">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. In the beginning of the book I was a little put off that  Lilly and her dead husbands cat communicated but most of the story is in the past and it turns out to be such a nostalgic coming of age story in the kennedy era and the civil rights movement. Anne Rivers Siddons love of nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30813735">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30215827">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best of this book was the consistent need the protagonist has to be one with nature, whether it was air or water, she was bound to it inextricably.  The love story was profound, the family story wry and moving, the drama a little slow at times, but the ending was a surprise, almost too much of o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30215827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30977780">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons, was published by Hatchette Book Group, and begins with Libby McCall returning to her summer home in Maine to spread the ashes of her beloved husband, Cam.  While she’s there, she’s flooded with memories.  Memories starting at the age of 11 when her first love d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30977780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34516964">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anne River Siddons never disappoints with her books. though this one is set in Maine instead of the South you get a sense of how much she loves nature and how good her descriptions are. Her Characters are well developed also. it begins with Lily as a young girl and that first love. Remember that fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34516964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66056693">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't really say too much about this book without giving away the surprise ending, but I will say that it was the surpise ending that redeemed this book for me. This is the first book that I have read by Siddons, and while it was engaging enough to finish it, I don't think that I will be perusing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66056693">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about Lilly and going through her life journey with her from 11 until death. It is a hard read to get into at first, and until page 80 or so it's a struggle, at least for me, to really feel out the characters.<br/><br/>Some you really never do.<br/><br/>Lilly lost her first love, Jo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61567498">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading the book all the way up until the last third when the novel started to go down-hill, then the clincher- the ending was horrible. The entire book is built on the development of various relationships between the main character, Lily, and other people in her life. Most of the relation...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52433935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33391623">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another good, old Anne Rivers Siddons book about the South.  Couldn't finish it as it comes a little close to home, for me right now, but I may come back to it.  I left it not because it wasn't well written, or the story wasn't a good one, but the &quot;mom with cancer&quot; storyline is not one I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33391623">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I would have never normally pick up and read but I thought, what the hey...it's summer, it's a summer book...why not.  All in all, it's not my type of book. But it's not horrible and I did finish it.<br/><br/>Recently widowed, Lilly is going back (with her husband Cam's ashes) to th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61800268">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ack! What happened here? Prior to this book, I've loved ARS's work.  As a rule, I find them gripping, the setting pulls me in, and the characters force me to believe in them. However, Off Season was a great disappointment to me. It was slow going at first, but did get better. The first half seemed t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60077761">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this a couple of nights ago. What I wish my mother had said to me instead was &quot;don't read the last 5 pages of this book at bedtime because it will make you angry and you won't be able to sleep.&quot; I don't know what else to say about this without being a spoiler except that I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68021224">more...</a>]]></body>
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