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  <title><![CDATA[The Virgin Blue]]></title>
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  <default_description>Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blue propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry. As the novel unfolds - alternating between Ella's story and that of Isabelle du Moulin four hundred years earlier - a common thread emerges that unexpectedly links the two women. Part detective story, part historical fiction, &lt;i&gt;The Virgin Blue&lt;/i&gt; is a novel of passion and intrigue that compels readers to the very last page.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2001</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Virgin Blue</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tracy Chevalier]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 20 11:41:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked it up and a day and a half later, I set it down.  At first, I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into, but 20 pages in and I was completely hooked.  <br/><br/>Since I haven't read anything else by Tracy Chevallier, I wasn't sure I would enjoy her writing.  I was happy to discover she h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12362536">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely not as good as Girl with a Pearl Earring.  I was really enjoying the first two-thirds of the book, but I didn't like the direction it took after that.  There are two parallel stories happening and the modern one is less believable than the one that takes places four hundred years ago.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47827684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13260199">
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 23 07:34:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 23 07:54:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This kinda of has a stereotypical romance novel feel to it- married women meets French man, and they have an affair and that sort of thing.  But there is another story besides this one that is really interesting, about her ancestor during medieval times.  It follows her as she gets married and raise...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13260199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38690113">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 20:05:48 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting book about two women, centuries apart, linked through blood and circumstances. <br/>Ella Turner moves to France with her husband Rick for his job. She has nothing to do with her days (she was a midwife in the U.S., but cannot yet practice in France) and begins researchin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38690113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22539009">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having never read Chevalier’s work I was very pleased with this novel, which is her first.  The interesting thing to me was that the story took place at two different times in history but in the same geographic area.  The first chapter introduces us to Isabelle, a girl who lives in France in the 1...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22539009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19780078">
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently, this was Tracy Chevalier's first novel, quite different from most of her other ones. I have read two other novels by this author, &quot;Girl with a Pearl Earring&quot; and &quot;The Lady and the Unicorn&quot;, and have enjoyed both very much. This author has a style that appeals to me, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19780078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17503357">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly, this was somewhat a book about a mystery, but it did get me thinking quite a bit, particularly about memories and how they are stored in the brain.  Because one of the two main characters &quot;develops&quot; memories from her distant relative (distant being 400ish years ago), I starte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17503357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10868898">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, which I believe Tracy Chevalier wrote before Girl With a Pearl Earring, reminded me an awful lot of The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve. It uses the same concept of alternating a historical plot with present day events, and both modern heroines are facing similar issues.<br/><br/>The mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10868898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7287414">
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    <body><![CDATA[Ella Tournier mengikuti suaminya pindah dari Amerika ke Perancis, dan menemukan rumah di sebuah kota kecil dekat Toulouse. sejak itu, Ella yang sebenarnya mempunyai leluhur berasal dari Perancis, bermimpi tentang warna biru yang benar-benar &quot;biru&quot; - suatu gabungan antara kesedihan dan kete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7287414">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44862055">
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Tracy Chevalier's writing. Her books, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels were terrific. This book was good and I did finish it, but it fell short compared to her others. <br/><br/>I enjoyed the story of Isabelle du Moulin more so than Ella Turner's story. Isabelle is a tragic hero...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44862055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39877415">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 14 07:26:11 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the split narrative (two female narrators, one in the 16th century, the other in the present day), but I wanted more closure than the ending ultimately provided. I'm tired of concluding in a state of liminal possibility.]]></body>
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    <review id="41686802">
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    <body><![CDATA[So this book started off strong -- very strong.  The story of the 1500 Isabelle was very interesting, although could have been developed a little more, I think.  I actually had a hard time putting the book down in the first three quarters or more.  However, by the end, I was pretty much tired of it....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41686802">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story would not leave me alone!  I had to stop reading it before bed because I could not sleep with the story running through my head.  Then I'd wake up in the morning, thinking about when I had the time to sit to read and hopefully finish the book.<br/><br/>So why did I give this book only f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78974630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73171662">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chip]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had always thought my favorite color was blue - it is so ubiquitous in my life - but had never thought of it as having a yin/yang ethos, a subtle light/dark tension that is simultaneously welcoming and warning.  Chevalier explores this, and other dichotomies, in her novel The Virgin Blue.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73171662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67895485">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of two women, separated by centuries, told in an alternating narrative. One narrative follows Isabelle du Moulin,  a 16th century French woman.  She is persecuted in her small farming village because of her unusual red hair and knowledge of midwifery.  She also secretly holds on to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67895485">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52466981">
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    <body><![CDATA[Category: Books <br/>Genre:  Literature &amp; Fiction <br/>Author: Tracy Chevalier <br/><br/>The virgin blue mengambil latar belakang di abad ke16 dan pada saat pergolakan reformasi protestan di Eropa. Ceritanya sendiri ditampilkan dalam 2 sudut pandang 2 orang wanita. Isabelle Du Moulin, yang nanti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52466981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, maybe 1.5 stars is more fair.  Anyway, this book annoyed the heck out of me!  This is my third Chevalier novel(also read &quot;Girl w/ a Pearl Earring&quot; and &quot;The Lady and the Unicorn) and enjoyed the first two--this is her first novel and I think it shows.  <br/>There are 2 main char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37980416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I hated this book. The first chapter was good and got me interested, but from that point on, it was like a trainwreck. It took forever to read because I could not get into it. I liked &quot;Girl with the Pearl Earring&quot; and I tried really hard to like this one, but it was so ridiculous. I hated...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46854038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of the book was a bit confusing as you get used to the French and the names, but a few pages in I was hooked.  It was a quick read and a page turner.    I enjoyed 'The Virgin Blue' so much more than 'The Girl with the Pearl Earring.'<br/><br/>This book also has a parallel storyline b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77255104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm glad I didn't let the first chapter scare me off. If you find the first chapter to be hard to follow, non-sensical, or other-worldly, don't worry... the next chapter is different by 180 degrees and makes much more sense. Keep reading it, it's a really engaging story. I really enjoyed the story a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8849506">more...</a>]]></body>
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