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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder if it is strange to say that Intrusions was a relief to read? Although it is fiction, Hegi writes herself in as the main charactor, an author/mother/wife trying to find the balance she needs to be all three.   While writing her novel, she is constantly being interrupted by her children, hus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36049232">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Susan- I'm surprised you liked this book since it really jumped back and forth constantly.  I think this is your copy of the book and I will return it when I can.  <br/>Paula - I agree that the unique style of this  book makes it interesting.  You really do get an idea of how a story can intrude on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78665774">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have really enjoyed this book as a short story.<br/>The concept is clever, and anyone who has tried to raise small children while writing or working on a project will identify with this novel within a novel, in which the characters interact with the fictional (?) author's life.  But after 3...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65521659">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked Stones from the River, and was happy to find this work I had not heard of by Hegi.  It is a light rendition of a writer's struggle to find time to write, to separate her characters from her own life, and try to figure out how to spin a plot out of incidents and ideas.  Problem is, it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40029817">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Has over-lapping elements and you have to pay close attention to the character introductions, but every mother &amp; wife can relate to this... I enjoyed it greatly....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book.  It is written on several dimensions, and the character who threatens to abandon Hegi for a role in a Penthouse story is hillarious!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was all right; I was glad to be reading it, but wouldn't bend over backwards recommending it. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Intrusions]]>
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    <![CDATA[Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling <em>Stones from the River,</em> creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and &quot;might-have-beens&quot; that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her &quot;author&quot; and her fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the choices women make, the ambiguities they face, and the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge.<p></p>]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought it was gimmicky and annoying at the start, but it got more clever as it went on. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling <em>Stones from the River,</em> creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and &quot;might-have-beens&quot; that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her &quot;author&quot; and her fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the choices women make, the ambiguities they face, and the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read and loved other books by this author, but this one was disappointing.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling <em>Stones from the River,</em> creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and &quot;might-have-beens&quot; that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her &quot;author&quot; and her fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the choices women make, the ambiguities they face, and the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge.<p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[you got to read this book....I loved it!!!!!!]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something about this book called to me and after a few years of working and raising my family I kept going back to the characters in Hegi's book and shaking my head knowingly. <br/>It is very difficult to describe the overall impression this book left on me, but believe me it did leave an impressio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37878267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was creative and delightful!]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The unique structure of this novel, intrusions of the author into the characters' lives and vice versa, make this a fascinating read.  A gift  of insight into the process a writer goes through when developing a character, and in this case Hegi's desire for a vacation, the reverse.Hegi 's sharing of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13857567">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Brilliantly stretching literary conventions, Ursula Hegi, author of the best-selling <em>Stones from the River,</em> creates a funny and original novel within a novel to explore the doubts, decisions, and &quot;might-have-beens&quot; that mark not only the writing process but life itself. As her &quot;author&quot; and her fictional heroine deal with their intrusions into each other's lives, Hegi reveals much about the choices women make, the ambiguities they face, and the often surprising ways reality and fiction merge.<p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clever and fun.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was just beginning the last paragraph of Intrusions when I was interrupted and had to put it down.  Ahh, funny irony.<br/><br/>Now for the review. I enjoyed Hegi's departure from the form of a novel and her personal interactions with her characters.  Many of the questions she raises about the wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38056271">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting book by her. Funny because I had just watched Stranger Than Fiction- and the book reminded me a lot of it. All about the intrutions experienced while trying to write a book. She jumps from her life, to the people in the book, to the people in the book interfering in her own l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3070844">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book;  a cleverly interwoven dream life/fiction and real, rather mundane and pragmatic life/nonfiction, which captures amusingly all the kinds of &quot;intrusions&quot; one experiences, whether just in daily life or while trying to write or paint or create something.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Ursula Hegi a lot and have read (almost?) all she's written. Despite being one of my favorite authors and loyalty I feel to her, I must be honest...Intrusions was one of the worst books I ever read. Her other stuff is so, so good. Just skip this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not like this title.  The author jumped about, in and out of the fictional lives of her characters and her own &quot;real&quot; life.  There was no focus, no voice, no sustaining theme.  My question, &quot;How did she get this published?&quot;]]></body>
    
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