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  <title><![CDATA[Crazy as Chocolate]]></title>
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  <default_description>Izzy s eccentric, complicated mother committed suicide on her forty-first birthday. Now, on the night before Izzy herself is to turn forty-one, she struggles with the realization that she will be older than her mother ever was. And to make matters worse, her widowed father, unstable sister, Ellie, and precocious niece have decided to accompany her to Colorado for what promises to be an emotionally charged weekend. As Izzy is flooded with memories from her past and wonders about her future, she must face a choice that could break her family apart.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elisabeth Hyde]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 02 03:57:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 02 03:57:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was loving this book – and then lost it before i finished it. It’s like chick lit with a brain. Or maybe if it was less intelligent it would be chick lit. Yes, that’s probably fairer. Woman literature about real woman. Not a lot of candy floss and pink glitter – just a very readable, very ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73183463">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 12 12:09:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 12 12:10:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[1st read by this author which I really enjoyed and will look for others by her. While this one bounces around quite a bit, between Izzy and Elly's childhood and adult lives and their struggles to finally come to grips with the world they all grew up with in dealing and coming to understand their mom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67107936">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 27 03:39:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I nice heart warming book despite the subject matter of a mother with depression. A touching book mostly because it is about the children who have survived their mother killing herself and is about life moving on. The writting style is very easy to read and deffiantly has it's moments of humour whih...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57469997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55917367">
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  <read_at>Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Isabella's mother committed suicide on her 41st birthday, and now Isabella is about to have her 41st birthday. Her father, sister and niece come for the weekend, and memories and family tensions ensue. Surprisingly for the genre, perhaps, Isabella's husband and father are the two characters that see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55917367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49779141">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 28 11:40:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed the back story of two girls and their mother...the lively images of her bizarre behaviour and their growing disenchantment as they mature with her quirks.  However, I found the grown up sisters less interesting and couldn't sympathise with Ellie.  Mixed feelings about this one.]]></body>
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    <review id="42363374">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 11 03:37:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice title, nice cover and there is something about the book I like.....just don't know what. It is a feeling I have, good one but vague. Nice read.]]></body>
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    <review id="43399418">
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 16:56:47 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. It was about how a daughter deals with outliving the age her mother never made it to.]]></body>
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    <review id="32806594">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 19 20:00:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read this book and looked into the past of the main character, Izzy, I felt really sorry for her having to deal with a crazy mom.  It just made me sad to see how she was confused by her mother's actions and haunted by her suicide as she got older. Her older sister, Ellie, I wanted to slap (in h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32806594">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book - amazing to see what kind of poor parenting some children can survive.  The idea of how suicide can affect the entire family makes for an interesting story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of reminiscing of childhood events surrounding a mother of two sisters who died when they were in their early teens. I felt that there was perhaps too much looking back making the story of the present a bit too weak. However, it did achieve the result of thinking about how your adult life and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40657495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My testament to a really good novel : if I've managed to read it all in one go and I'm now desperate to read everything written by the author. <br/><br/>Somehow, she makes dysfunctional families sound like you want to have one. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like stories about dysfunctional families.  ]]></body>
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