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  <title><![CDATA[Love's Enduring Promise (Love Comes Softly #2)]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1980</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janette Oke]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 15 06:04:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 16 12:51:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book, having previously seen all the movie versions of the books in the Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke.  <br/><br/>I enjoyed this book more than the first, but them movie seems to depart even farther from this book than the first, and there is quite a bit of liberty taken with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37781794">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 12 14:08:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;Love Comes Softly&quot; series is wonderful. A friend introduced me to the books and shortly after that the movies came out. The movies is the reason I started to read the books. The &quot;Love Comes Softly&quot; and &quot;Loves Enduring Promise&quot; adaptions are very good. those are the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34398670">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 29 16:25:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 29 16:28:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book in the Love Comes Softly series. After finishing the first novel I found myself aching for more. I immediately picked up this book with my hot chocolate and dug in. Started at 9:30am and finished at 2pm. Great read. Having watched the movie series I was sad to find the book completel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16727071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43390123">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 15:01:46 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 21 18:53:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this second book in the series, I'm calling it quits.  I just can't make myself read the remaining 10 books in this series.  This second book has been very repetitive in the sense that I'm continually reading about a new couple getting married and more babies being born.  There really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43390123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56510868">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 18 13:02:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 18 13:24:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just as it drove me nuts in the first book, the uneducated English they that every character aside from 1 or 2 (and those 1 or 2 are very minor characters) speak. If I were to write a sentence like this: &quot;Them there young'uns bein' without enything fittin' 'nuf to be wearin' to thet new school ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56510868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13273983">
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[women, christians, historians]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 23 09:15:25 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 26 08:56:21 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sequel to Marty's pioneer story told in Love Comes Softly.  The book covers a greater time-frame than the previous volume and we see Missy grow up, marry and ... that would be giving the game away!  A must-read for anyone who enjoyed Laura Ingalls Wilder.]]></body>
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    <review id="24171986">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 10 14:28:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 10 14:30:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book two to the series. I watched some of the movies an thought it would be fun to read the books. Unfortunately I think it would have been much more interesting to read the books before I saw the movies.]]></body>
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    <review id="68313110">
    <user id="2060252">
    <name><![CDATA[Kai]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 21 03:25:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 21 03:52:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie of the first three books.  Since then I always wanted to read the books.  I recently got this book and the fourth one.  WEll, I thought, Thats better then nothing , and I started reading it.  <br/><br/>What I thought of the book? <br/><br/>This book is great!  It's nothing like t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68313110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47714653">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 27 13:31:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 27 13:32:27 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love's Enduring Promise has several sub-plots, but no main plot. Given that the author and the author's husband both have ministerial backgrounds, I found it interesting that one of the book's sub-plots included the first hired community pastor (&quot;the highly trained Rev. Watson&quot;) being a mi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47714653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50822835">
    <user id="875305">
    <name><![CDATA[Helen]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 29 12:31:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 30 15:10:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second in the Love Comes Softly series.  Clark and Marty continue to add to their family by taking in the two Larson girls as well as their own Ellie and Luke.  In this story, the children are growing up and beginning to make their own lives as Clark and Marty help to build up their comm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50822835">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61008073">
    <user id="881706">
    <name><![CDATA[Kirsten]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 24 19:43:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 19:48:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so deeply sad when I read this book because it moved way too fast, and did not give me the details I desperately craved after finishing Love Comes Softly. I still loved the story. It was a simple yet very fulfilling read, but I was hoping to get more details of those early years between Clark ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61008073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60285618">
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    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Mountain View, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 19 07:30:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm in love with this family and it continues to grow!  I'm especially intrigued with the person Marty is.  In so many ways I'd like to be that same kind of woman--hard working, do anything for anybody, wonderful wife &amp; mother, faithful, trys not to judge others.  I find it very educational to follo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60285618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69756407">
    <user id="1612382">
    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 01 19:27:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You can totally tell that when she wrote the first book in this series that she had not planned on it being a series at all.  This second book was rushed, the characters were not nearly as developed and plot shifted and changed way too suddenly.  I felt rushed and disjointed.  I think the only redee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69756407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72962581">
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    <name><![CDATA[Teri]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 29 21:41:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm enjoying these books as light reading.  Possible borderline fluff, but sweet fluff.  I think what I get from these books is the sense of community these fictional characters had on the frontier, and the interesting pre-tech glimpses of their domestic lives.  So much like our own time, but not.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72962581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41162877">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cortney]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 05:23:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never read the sequel and my good neighbor informed me there are like 6 books in this series (and made to movies too!!) so I gobbled up book #2.<br/><br/>Side note: My neighbor (Sherri) also informed me that the movies were nothing like the book...and she was right! I watched the first two m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41162877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54936438">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 04 14:27:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 05 20:39:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is somewhat more mechanical.  It's 200 pages that takes place over ~18 years.  It is enjoyable in the sense that we get to see what happens to the characters that we met in the first novel, but it doesn't leave much room for development.  I'll still read the next, but I'm hoping it returns ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54936438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44196048">
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    <body><![CDATA[Just like the first book, I LOVE this series.  I ADORE the movies, but the books are SUPER in that they are more true to the time period and way of speaking for the time/place.  I love the struggles of each generation of ladies to live and love during this period of time.  It is probably not for eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44196048">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 15:29:10 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Holy moly, the only thing the TV series and this book had in common was the last couple of chapters.  I've given up on comparsions, take each as it is.  This one kind of time speeds you along to get to the third book - kind of like soap opera's speeding up the children's ages to move along the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77477910">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like two stars is harsh....but the book is just so lack luster.  The story is sweet and clean (which I love) but that is about it.  The time skips strangely.  There is a racial issue which could have added character but the author chose not to face it.  Eh....it was an okay book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 09:31:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't read the first book in the series, but I had seen the movie, so I had a general idea of the characters and events that led up to the second book.  The story picked up more towards the end; the last few chapters were my favorite.]]></body>
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