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    <body><![CDATA[Why did I select this book? I'd never read Cather, and I knew that the plot included opera. Well, now I have, and it does.<br/><br/>The plot - the trajectory of a young girl's life from small-town Colorado to international acclaim as a Wagnerian diva - is almost incidental. The huge Colorado lands...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51038854">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Willa Cather is wonderful at evoking the feeling of the Plains.  I can feel the heat of the summer in my face and the cold of the winter on my back when I read her writings.  This particular book beautifully captures the struggles of an artist growing up in a society that doesn't understand her tale...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9245237">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Cather book.  Even though a lot of people complain about the last chapter (and granted, it's not the strongest part of the novel), the whole thing is such a believable, inspiring, attentively detailed account of how a girl from the middle of nowhere follows her passion for music througho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2082415">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a gorgeous book, one of my all-time favorites. I've read it twice and taken from it numerous inspiring quotes that guide my life.  &quot;But if you decide what it is you want most, you can get it.  Not everybody can, but you can.  Only, if you want a big dream, you've got to have nerve enoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12543697">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The clamour about her drowned the voice within herself.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing--desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So this is my favorite from Cather. I won't enter all her books, but check out The Professor's House and My Mortal Enemy if you get hooked. Surprisingly I didn't like Death Comes for the Archbishop (her prizewinner) as well as these others.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time.  This is a story of a young girl growing up in middle American in the early 20th century.  She starts taking piano lessons from a fabulous teacher who sadly has a alcohol problem and lives in her little town.  She goes on to study and ends up becoming a famous o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42420520">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The tortured creative genius is explored in this book.  I loved it.  There were many characters and descriptions that I recognized and filed away.  Thea, a girl from Moonstone Colorado in the early 1900's, struggles to express herself and her creative muse drives her to do great things and, at the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70077470">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After the third time picking it up, I have finally finished reading this novel.  The beginning was so inspiring, Thea is working with what she has in a small town with limitations, but with so many people who support her artistic impulse.  Her eventual move to Chicago and beyond to study was also in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31447366">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book. Willa Cather is wonderfully insightful, and amazingly descriptive (especially at describing her characters..their desires, secret thoughts, inner ambitions, subtleties) and it is the intriguing story of a young girl whose talent pushes her through life. It is a great portrayal of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44081160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book obviously has special significance to me because the main character is an opera singer, but I think its true strength is in its understanding of what art demands of the artist, and of the process of acquiring mastery: it is exhilarating and terrifying. The protagonist, Thea Kronborg, grows...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28506944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really disappointed in this book.  I absolutely loved My Antonia and Death Comes to the Archbishop.  This book didn't even seem to &quot;belong&quot; to Willa Cather.  The main character was unsympathetic.  I didn't even like her.  There was no magic to the writing.  In fact, there was a lot t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67488265">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but still found it to be my least favorite of all of the Willa Cather books I read this year.  I enjoyed the first part of the book, which traced Thea Kronberg's life as a young girl growing up in the country side of the mid-west.  But her later life in Chicago, Germany and later ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42671131">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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