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  <title><![CDATA[Firefly Summer]]></title>
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  <default-description>It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her&#160;&#160;husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish&#160;&#160;village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old&#160;&#160;twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a summer&#160;&#160;of innocence... but all that is about to change&#160;&#160;this fateful summer of 1962 when American&#160;&#160;millionaire Patrick O'Neill comes to town with his&#160;&#160;irresistible charm and a pocketful of money... when love&#160;&#160;and hate vie for a town's quiet heart and old&#160;&#160;traditions begin to crumble away.... It was a summer of&#160;&#160;love that would never come again.... A time that&#160;&#160;has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy's&#160;&#160;compelling family drama... a novel you will never forget.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Paperback edition.&lt;/i&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1987</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Firefly Summer</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maeve Binchy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 18 13:12:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 18 13:23:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always enjoy reading Ms. Binchey's books.  It's like sitting down with some new friends I've yet to meet and learning all about their lives.  You can almost hear the voices and anticipate how the characters will react to different situations.<br/><br/>I did not enjoy this book as much as say <em>Cir...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7897567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4843206">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 20 20:06:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 20 20:14:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to read a Maeve Binchy book and picked this one off the library shelf because it had the neatest title. : )  I almost quit reading after the first chapter because Binchy's punctuation is random at best, but I kept reading and ended up enjoying the book pretty well.  Binchy creates a huge ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4843206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50259130">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 23 23:18:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 16:08:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think I was going to enjoy this book but I surprised myself and did enjoy it.<br/><br/><br/>From back cover:<br/><br/>&quot;Kate and John Ryan have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50259130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48071205">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 02 20:18:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 10 14:14:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So good!  I love how Maeve Binchy creates these characters that feel so real and whose lives you get so wrapped up in!  Nothing really happens plot wise for like the first 200 pages, and yet I couldn't stop reading and was so involved in these people's lives!  The ending was very abrupt, but I blame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48071205">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7775288">
    <user id="549042">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 15 19:49:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 15 19:52:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite of all her books.  She is a great story-teller of the Irish country side.  Once you pick up her books, you can't put them down!]]></body>
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    <review id="53008250">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 16 04:16:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book at an impuls at the grocery store, as I liked what was written in the back cover....<br/><br/>&quot;Kate and John Ryan have four children, of which the eldest are Michael and Dara. Their small town is peaceful and friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53008250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41638189">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 14:16:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 02 14:25:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always, I enjoyed Ms. Binchy's characters, the Irish setting, the lovely voices. In this novel, an American of Irish descent comes back to a small town to build a hotel . . . and the story follows the impact his hotel and his family have on the town. While I enjoyed the reading of the book as a w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41638189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64444223">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 18:16:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 21 18:18:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was excruciatingly slow in the beginning, quite interesting and fun in the middle, and then quite abrupt and melodramatic at the end.  It's as if she didn't know how to end the book so she just had a huge catastrophe happen and then bang, it was over.  Definitely my least favorite Maeve Bi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64444223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3692436">
    <user id="160908">
    <name><![CDATA[Sondang]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 28 02:25:24 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 30 04:57:27 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another Maeve Binchy’s, but not my favourite  <br/>The story is about the coming of an American millionaire to a small Irish village.<br/>His coming  change everyone in the village, even the person who thought that this guy with his riches and dreams wouldn’t touched his life.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3692436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38305115">
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    <name><![CDATA[Hillary]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 21 08:16:55 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 21 08:20:54 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know why I keep reading Maeve Binchy books.  A ton of nonsense told in a very long and drawn out way, then a dumb ending.  I have one more to read and then that is it!!  Seriously, 768 pages to get to that ending.  You have got to be kidding me.]]></body>
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    <review id="63018285">
    <user id="2504017">
    <name><![CDATA[Corinne ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Huntington, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 11 06:33:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 11 06:35:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Maeve Binchy.  This book good but it was depressing.  Everything that could go wrong did and when you got to the part where everything seemed to be working out the hotel that's building was the focus of the book was destroyed.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="46100185">
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 11 19:30:18 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for the first time in hardback, it is still on my bookshelf...My first Maeve Binchy book and still my favorite...]]></body>
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    <review id="75784400">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually enjoy Maeve Binchy - light reading, with intersting look at Irish culture.  Unfortunately, the plot on this one was pretty lame.]]></body>
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    <review id="50394063">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to force myself to read this book to the end; I was pretty disapointed. I am normally a huge fan of Maeve Binchy's books but found this one kindof depressing. It started with same allure all her books seem to have for me and had me at one point curious about the outcome. Found the ending not o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50394063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62274572">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kelleyn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 19:23:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked Tara Road better.  I liked the story, but she just took way too long to tell it.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="73569212">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dawnastebbins]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 05 18:11:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 05 18:15:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maeve Binchy is always wonderful to read. This one is almost as good as The Glass Lake.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="49813970">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sandra]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Multiple characters, long intertwined story, beautiful setting ]]></body>
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