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    <body><![CDATA[If I had to pick one book that would come with me wherever I went, it would be this one.  This is my all-time favorite book.  My favorite Kingsolver, my favorite book of essays (my favorite medium), my favorite.  She is my hero.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5 stars<br/><br/>I was inclined to think I would like her fiction much better than her essays.  Happily, I was wrong.  This is a collection of beautifully written essays covering everything from raising chickens to raising children, from global war to birdwatching.  There are so many perfectly e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41504591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent ideas, a writer who likes to hear herself write a little bit, but that goes with the essay as a tool, and it must be said that she is very witty and clear. . . I really liked it. She has a similar message to Wendell Berry, but she's not the &quot;female Wendell Berry&quot; that some people...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24245990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Barbara Kingsolver but I think I was reading this book at the wrong time.  It was written in 2001 and has a lot of essays about how terrible our country it.  If I read this book 5 years ago I probably would've really liked it, but right now I am riding the Obama wave of optimism and hope to n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43908662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read sections of Barbara Kingsolver's &quot;Small Wonder&quot; aloud, while recording a Christmas gift CD for friends and family in 2003. Several of the essays were so poignant to those of us hurting from the Sept. 11 attacks and tensions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.<br/><br/>I re-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2896565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to add this one A.) because it has been on my shelf for a long time and B.) because I thought you Kingsolver addicts should know about it.  This collection of essays has a fairly broad span-- some of them the beginnings of AVM.  (Like the essay about Lily's Chickens.)  Anyhow, I've read a f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16826005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Small Wonders is a thought provoking collections of essays by the great wordsmith Barbara Kingsolver. In this collection the reader is treated to heart wrenching descriptions of the natural beauty surrounding us everyday. Kingsolver has an eye that many of us do not possess and is able to write in e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75283436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all I am completely in love with Kingsolver as an author and am pretty sure I am in love with her as a person as well! I have read several of her writings and always find them to be inciteful and intelligently written. Also, I feel as if she is or striving to be the person I always wanted t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64649679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In general terms I, too, am on the same side of the fence as Kingsolver.  Maybe that’s why I was disappointed to find that this was not as engaging a read as I expected it to be.<br/>As I was reading through these post-9/11 &quot;essays&quot; I found it increasingly difficult to be sympathetic wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65117762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great collection of essays - a few at the beginning and end got me a little annoyed, but mostly I thoroughly enjoyed them. It was a nice opportunity to peek inside the mind of one of my favorite writers, and I was not disappointed. A few of my favorites included &quot;Letter to my Mother,&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54866746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i really enjoy reading what kingsolver has to say.  it's always, always educational.  among other things, this has made me incredibly excited to prepare my garden for next year's planting.<br/><br/>&quot;My best revenge against all the dishonesty and hatred in the world, it seems to me, will be to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71181624">more...</a>]]></body>
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