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    <body><![CDATA[The first chapter of this book introduces you to a brother and a sister in their forties who are celebrating the Fourth of July together, along with their families. There is some tension between the siblings, but they also obviously have a lot of affection for each other.  The secret of that tension...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40784631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've readother novels by Charles Baxter and they were fantastic. However, though this story is not terrible, it can be a bit monotonious when reading about Dorsey and her affair with Carlo Pavorese. His rantings are so drawn out that halfway through reading, I was skeptical about my patience in fini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64706474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because Charles Baxter taught creative writing at the U of MN while I went there. I never actually took one of his classes, but his name was familiar to me.<br/><br/>He's a fantastic writer. First Light has so many vivid characters - no one's forgettable, and everyone seems real. The n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20499920">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I started this book, I said, &quot;Wow, finally a good one.&quot; My previous two readings were bummers. Anyway, the more I read, the more I wondered the author's point. The writing itself is excellent. It's the story's time line that bothered me. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 10:54:17 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;What if the universe is in an infinite process of expansion and contraction, like the bellows of an accordian being played through the creation time, it's obliteration, and it's recreation?&quot; <br/><br/>&quot;I may be getting too old to stalk and discover the elusive banality of truth.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like the way this author writes.  This is a very tender family story that is told in retrospect. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel that moves backwards in time, from present to past, to tell the story of Dorsey Welch, an astrophysicist studying the origins of the universe, and her brother Hugh. Hugh remains in the small-town house where they were born, while Dorsey travels to California and becomes a wife and mother as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36789726">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been trying to decide if this is book is a 3 star or a 4 star.  I wasn't really in love with this book while I was reading it, although I do find myself thinking about certain scenes and sentences after I finished reading it for quite sometime.  If you like &quot;atonement&quot;, you might like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1250655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53483">
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    <body><![CDATA[El estilo de este autor, sencillo y plácido aunque con una narración hacia atrás en el tiempo muy curiosa, en esta novela se centra en la relación entre hermanos con todo lo que eso implica. Muy recomendable]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites.  We start at a point in time in a relationship and then the story is told backwards through time to reveal how the relationship evolved.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://reflecting.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/on-the-bookshelf-13/">Click for my review of First Light</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's no Feast of Love, but it'll do a decent impression of it on a long, boring train ride.]]></body>
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