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  <title><![CDATA[Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;B&gt;A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don&#8217;t mix.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;At her husband&#8217;s prompting, suburban mom and New York career woman Susan McCorkindale agreed to give up her stressful six-figure job. Together, they headed down south to a 500-acre beef farm, and never looked back. Well, he didn&#8217;t look back. She did. A lot.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt; From playing &#8220;spot the religious billboard&#8221; on the drive to rural Virginia, to adapting to a world without Starbucks, to planning bright-orange hunter-resistant wardrobes for the kids (&#8220;We moved here to get away from the madness of Manhattan only to risk getting popped on our own property&#8221;), this is her hilarious account of how a city girl came to love&#8212;or at least tolerate&#8212;country life.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">10</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2008</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Susan McCorkindale]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone who wants a good laugh]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The city mouse moves to the country in this REALLY, REALLY funny book. Susan put her hyper-personality in the pages with her signature tangents that are even funnier as footnotes, lists, indexes and much more that pop up throughout for a truly enjoyable read. The best part (and the most important pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34383817">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 07 17:15:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 07 17:20:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[McCorkindale is not a gifted story teller. She's far too self-conscious and the would-be funny parts are so belabored, overworked--that they just aren't funny. It was like spending six hours with a girlfriend who finds herself hilarious. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 04 07:19:30 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 07:23:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really think it deserves only about 1 1/2 stars at most.  Her sarcasm was just wearing.  A little goes a long way and she uses sarcasm a LOT.  Her footnotes were frankly annoying.  I would have preferred to read them as part of the book itself, as they were really parenthetical comments.  This boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39278842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65471154">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[NY fashion lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 29 17:58:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 18:15:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I realized why I didn't like this book much on p. 232 when the author explained, &quot;I'm pretty sure he (her husband) thought that once the girl left the city, the city would leave the girl, but I'm simply incapable of making that kind of metamorphosis.  In fact the reverse is true; I'm doing my b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65471154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70240271">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 06 07:24:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 13:09:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't resist picking up this book when I found it on a sale table.  Sounded like an fun concept (I have my own dreams of living on a farm one day), plus it's set in Virginia.  However, so far I'm not enjoying it much.  One reason being that the author is far to much of a whiny princess to be li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70240271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34400580">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Every Woman]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 02 17:36:59 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 02 17:49:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[She may be new to the country, but she's certainly not new to funny! Susan McCorkindale's first book had me laughing out loud. Her light-hearted, cheerful charm is a joy to read and I'm eagerly awaiting book #2!]]></body>
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    <review id="40009566">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 13 08:08:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 13 08:11:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess someone who is a bigger fan of chick lit might like this a lot better than me. I was raised in the South on a (non-working) farm, so maybe that put me too close to the topic she's poking fun at, but McCorkindale's attitude almost immediately put me on the defensive. Also, I was sick of her d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40009566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40570938">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 20 21:58:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 20 22:05:11 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried really really hard to like this book but the stupid footnotes (multiple sarcastic notes on EACH page - so distracting) just ruined the book for me each time I had to pause to read them.  They really ruined the flow of the book.  <br/><br/>As far as her writing goes, yes she was overly sarc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40570938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75390078">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 22 11:50:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 11:54:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The narrator is completely out of touch with the average reader.  She spends a significant amount of time woe-is-me-ing about how her life is so difficult living in a millionaire's house and about how she can't get manicures and shop at designer stores anymore.  Her condescension about &quot;the sti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75390078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72098777">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 22 06:27:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 13:42:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only got partway through this one. While I enjoyed what I read up through Chapter 9, the author's constant over-exaggerations and when it came to describing her experiences got a little old. I think I was expecting something more along the lines of &quot;50 Acres and a Poodle,&quot; which was humoro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72098777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62457833">
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    <location><![CDATA[Gurnee, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 07 06:49:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 16 17:52:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is getting 2 stars because I actually finished it (although I can't quite decide why...)  I expected a memoir of big-city-girl becomes country-farm-girl, as in she actually participates in the farming, not merely tolerates it while whining about EVERYTHING (not having Starbucks, mud, horse-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62457833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69839704">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Corporate &quot;Jersey Girls&quot; ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Sep 12 19:28:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[CONFESSIONS OF A COUNTERFEIT FARM GIRL, Susan McCorkindale<br/>Susan McCorkindale's memoir sheds light on her dream to be the next Norma Ephron....and if she keeps it up, she will be!  Funny book on a corporate Jersey Girl who leaves Bergen County to become.....&quot;a counterfeit farm girl&quot; i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69839704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39727718">
    <user id="64544">
    <name><![CDATA[Catherine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 17:00:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[McCorkindale's super forced attempt at humor fell flat for me.  Not only was this book completely lacking in unfunny prose but also unendingly vapid.  I'm sorry I wasted my time struggling through 2/3 of the book in search of even a tiny morsel of content. <br/><br/>I've said it before -- humor wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39727718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50278300">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Mar 24 07:51:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[a light, funny, self-deprecating book about a woman who moves from NJ (NY suburbs) to a farm in VA with her husband (his dream) and their 2 boys (7 &amp; 14).  she's very &quot;jersey&quot; - she acknowledges this - and not at all a rural kind of gal, but her stories are funny and it provides chuckles a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50278300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57122810">
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  <date_added>Sat May 23 22:26:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spoiled rich girl moves to the farm.  She wants to know what real farming is like, there is a dairy farm &amp; a hog farm in my family that she can visit.  But only when my Uncle is there &amp; not at his full time factory job that pays the bills.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://charlotteswebofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/32-confessions-of-counterfeit-farm-girl.html" title="http://charlotteswebofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/32-confessions-of-counterfeit-farm-girl.html">http://charlotteswebofbooks.blogspot.com...</a><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57122810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38409803">
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 22 16:51:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time feeling sorry for McCorkindale, who left a high-paying job and a high-priced home in a high-priced neighborhood and moved to northern Virginia where her biggest complaint is the lack of a nearby Starbucks. She tries hard to be funny, and sometimes succeeds, but mostly I just couldn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39472475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always have such a hard time with the rating system... this book wasn't &quot;amazing&quot; in that it changed my life, but I did really like it.  &quot;Suzy&quot; is witty, charming, and likeable throughout the book.  I'm jealous that I wasn't friends with her while she was going through the two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74298999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some parts of this book were funny, but towards the end it really dragged on. I didn't need to know about her family's penchant for farting and other such nonsense that had nothing to do with the topic. I guess there is only so much you can say about moving to the country! ]]></body>
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