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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the writing in Alice Hoffman's novel is truly inspired. Her characters do indeed come to life, even if at times they seem to be tried and true caricatures of New England. Hoffman has been quoted as saying that &quot;books may be the only real magic,&quot; and certainly it's clear from her pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15333177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, this book was one of the best depictions of mother-daughter relationships I've ever read. I felt for both mother and child in it, I could see both sides and where both were coming from - yet unlike other novels, I saw no clear way to fix it, because there was no clear way to fix things. It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5226053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I <em>though</em> I'd read this when it came out, and was right- I had- but went ahead and reread it anyway.  Hoffman has a thing about the relationships of women in a family lineage-  <em>Practical Magic</em>, <em>Blackbird House</em> both come to mind.  But she has such a lyrical way of breathing life into her characters, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43951758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a beautifully written book about the Sparrow’s family history spanning 13 generations. Rebecca Sparrow walked out of the woods one day when she was seven or eight and no one knew where she originated. Named Rebecca by the washerwoman who took her in and Sparrow by the local boys who saw S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73204036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Hoffman has made a name for herself with such novels as Practical Magic, but I have not read her before this. The Probable Future touches on the lives of the Sparrow women, residents of Unity for generations, and definitely different. Each receives a gift on her thirteenth birthday: Elinor is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70079063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has magical realism -- not just a Usan style of it, reminiscent of John Crowley's <em>Little, Big</em>, but a specifically New English breed. It has the type of history New England excels at: genealogical, village (&quot;municipal&quot; is too antiseptic), and architectural. The genealogical element con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58706573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    Such a beautifully written novel. I've always been enchanted with the northeast and magical things. I love how she creates in detail the scenery and natural environment. Earthy. The way the characters were interwoven and the story flowed seamlessly between perspectives was well done. You easily ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60486431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, jenny can see people’s dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future-a future she might not want to see. When Stella’s premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79908308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(This is a little long, cuz I get bitchy.)<br/><br/>There’s an audience for this type of Hoffman novel.  I probably ain’t it.  <br/><br/>I would guess that Hoffman’s core readers as transcendental herbalists from Martha’s Vineyard, and I’m sure I’m not that!  So, maybe I was destined...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64989451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hoffman is, as always, a good writer, with brilliant writing and keen psychological and emotional insight into her characters, especially her adolescent ones. This book confirms her strengths, except it's probably a little softer around the edges than most of her other books. Here the central charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66449399">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 09:46:11 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book in a shower of tears, which were also evident elsewhere in the book.  I liked it very much and will probably reread it, though not immediately, as I am currently still rereading Alice Hoffman's <em>The Third Angel</em>.<br/><br/>This book is primarily about three generations of wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48710274">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bewitching story about the women in the 'Sparrow' family. Each woman is born in the month of March and upon turning 13 years of age, they discover which unusual &quot;gift&quot; they have been given.<br/><br/>From back cover:<br/><br/>&quot;The women of the Sparrow family have lived in New Eng...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50070653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, another Alice Hoffman book under my belt. When I read this book, I was transported to a town I would love to live in. I would love to work in that tea shop and cut plum pie, live in Cake House, have mystery, wisteria, bees and powers surround me. That would be wonderful. But the other morning, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45312466">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alice Hoffman books are always such a joy, and this was blessed light relief after the last book I almost read : ) This  novel- like so many other Hoffman books - is a  sort of fairy story for grown ups.  Although of course it is more than that really.  This novel is about  the choices people make, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63893810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a simple and fast read. I think its perfect for the beach or a vacation when you dont want to tackle anything too challenging. The story is about generations of women (but focuses on the most recent 3 generations) who inheret a gift on their 13th birthday (ie can't feel pain, can see h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54967434">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 20 12:09:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 20 12:35:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of Alice Hoffman's book have a few things in common, there is usually a female protagonist, it takes place in New England, &amp; there is usually some kind of magic involved. Not &quot;Harry Potter&quot; type magic. Very subtle to where it seems natural for the character.<br/><br/>This book is ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75143557">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was pretty good, but it took me a bit to get drawn into the<br/>characters. It is about a family of women, the Sparrows, who are all<br/>born in the month of March and who all develop an unusual gift at the<br/>age of 13. One can tell when a person is lying, one can see other<br/>peopl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53986515">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 29 13:49:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written in memory of Alice Hoffman's mother. I started listening to it in late December, when my eyes hurt so much I didn't like to open them for days. Since then I've listened to it slowly but surely as the months went by, whenever in was too painful to open a book, and I would drift ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50830824">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me by one person and then that recommendation was backed up by another. While I certainly can get down with the idea of a family full of gifted women or witches or whatever you want to call them the rest of it was a little too, sorry, normal for me. Plus, I seem to have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36397320">more...</a>]]></body>
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