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  <title><![CDATA[The Diary of Mattie Spenser]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1998</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Holly (2 Kids and Tired)]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 15 19:05:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 16 16:28:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one that I had a hard time putting down. It was compelling. Mattie's voice rings true. She is someone you like. The story is set in the pioneer days. Mattie and her husband Luke head to the Colorado frontier to build a home and farm. Mattie records her journey, thoughts and life in a j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15535560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11466347">
    <user id="54076">
    <name><![CDATA[Cynthia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Durham, NC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 02 13:01:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 02 13:02:08 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't want to put this book down or for it to end. Sandra Dallas combined both a wonderful plot in a fascinating time period with the unique character of Maggie Spenser. I usually do not like books in a diary or letter format b/c there is so much skipping around and it feels like the flow is inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11466347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57978953">
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    <name><![CDATA[Fran]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Yukon, OK]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of historical fiction or women's fiction (NOT chick lit)]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[my sister and my daughter]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 31 14:46:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 24 17:12:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A woman purportedly finds a diary tucked into an elderly neighbor's ancestor's trunk.  She decides to decipher and transcribe the diary, and the story she uncovers is a fascinating description of life on the American prairie. Some of the adventures, like the accounts of the wagon train and sad lives...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57978953">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20478068">
    <user id="845684">
    <name><![CDATA[Jayci]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Woods Cross, UT]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 18 12:47:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 18 12:54:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was not excited to read this book....but oh, I am so glad I did!  This really was a great love story!  Mattie sets out with her new husband to start a life in the Colorado Territory.  Frontier life in the 1800's doesn't sound like an appealing read, but I need to remember to give things a chance. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20478068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57717991">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sandi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Port Orange, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri May 29 03:23:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 29 03:30:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[26 years ago my new husband and I loaded all our possessions  in our &quot; wagon&quot; ie the Hertz rental truck and headed to a new land (Florida) to start our married life togerher. This book is about Mattie who heads west to the  Colorado territory with her new husband Luke  to start her married...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57717991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75144181">
    <user id="881587">
    <name><![CDATA[Sherry]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 20 12:14:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 23 12:37:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I read The Diary of Mattie Spenser all I could think about is how soft 21st century western women are and not in the good feminine way. No, we are cursed with the blessing of leisure time, time which we spent complaining, feeling entitled, constantly looking with a microscope at petty things in o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75144181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41953282">
    <user id="1445368">
    <name><![CDATA[Madelyn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 08:06:39 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 08:18:42 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[.. my first book of the hew year!! :)It was good. A quick read that made me really appreciate my life. Being an early settler of the West, would have been the worst thing ever!Although the book is not a true diary, it is a good example of how we can suffer at the hand of our own decisions, in how mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41953282">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44050694">
    <user id="1247593">
    <name><![CDATA[Robin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 23 08:15:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 14 16:02:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I zipped right through this book. Mattie and I could totally hang out. If we were homesteading together we would be best friends. This is a book about keeping it together, through thick and thin, mostly thin. Dallas has a friendly approachable writing style and I highly recommend this book.]]></body>
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    <review id="48521819">
    <user id="2104569">
    <name><![CDATA[Sheila]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 07 12:03:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this book. It is a fictionalized journal of a girl traveling with her new husband to make a home on the Colorado territory. ]]></body>
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    <review id="64429937">
    <user id="2546774">
    <name><![CDATA[Diana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Riverside, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 21 16:13:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 31 10:24:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am so glad I live now and not then.  <br/>Often in traveling with our RV group we women will talk at the end of the day and remark about the country side we have seen during the day and we will always remark on how hard it must of been for women as they crossed this country not in covered wagons ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64429937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71758506">
    <user id="1708674">
    <name><![CDATA[Sherri]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rome, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[prairie romance, wagon trains, female stories of empowerment]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 19 06:19:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 05:56:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is phenomenal book.  It is told in a series of journal entries our heroine Mattie makes beginning with her marriage and on into her life.<br/><br/>Mattie is a young woman who considers herself an old maid &quot;on the shelf&quot; when handsome Luke Spenser approaches her with an offer of marr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71758506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63836531">
    <user id="856955">
    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Spring, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 17 04:32:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 27 12:38:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Imagine being 22 years old and, in the eyes of your community, a &quot;confirmed old maid&quot; when the catch of the town appears on your doorstep to propose a hasty marriage to be followed by a &quot;honeymoon&quot; wagon trek across the Great Plains to a homestead in Colorado. What would you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63836531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70504338">
    <user id="2704584">
    <name><![CDATA[Aimee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cheyenne, WY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 08 14:00:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 15:53:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Sandra Dallas book I read.  After it was over I had to have more.  I wanted more about Mattie Spenser but I took what I could get and devoured other books by Sandra Dallas.  &quot;The Diary of Mattie Spenser&quot; is a history book...a love story, it had adventure and tragedy...it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70504338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60447836">
    <user id="1726119">
    <name><![CDATA[Angie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Herriman, UT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 15:54:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 26 19:46:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this  book late last night and I CANNOT stop thinking about it!  Mattie Spenser was an AMAZING pioneer woman that had to suffer through many, many hardships while establishing a family, home and a life out on the prairie.  The little things stuck out to me like sweeping the dirt floor (ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60447836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51476485">
    <user id="149301">
    <name><![CDATA[Dana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[La Crosse, WI]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 08:42:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 04 08:56:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the best book I have read in a long time. I didn't want it to ever end. This is the story of pioneer wife, Mattie Spencer during her life on the prairie. It's written in the form of Mattie's diary where she secretly kept all her inner-most thoughts as well as accounts of her daily life. Mat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51476485">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="26696661">
    <user id="1075341">
    <name><![CDATA[Kathy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 08 17:03:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 09 09:53:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[May contain spoilers....<br/><br/>I was pretty disappointed with this book. I was excited to read it thinking it would be a cute love story. I really wanted to like Mattie but she was SO ignorant about everything going on around her. She turned a blind eye to everything her husband was doing or no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26696661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73904520">
    <user id="2560671">
    <name><![CDATA[Chriser123]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 15:52:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[FUN-  Once again Dallas has written a historically accurate book about women.  She does excellent research and makes her characters so real. This book takes place in the Colorado Territory, with new bride Mattie Spenser learning as she goes, for nothing can teach you about the hardships of the wilde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73904520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was, oddly, a real page-turner for me. I can't figure out why, exactly, as I never was a Little House on the Prairie fan, don't devour historicals, have no time for those PBS shows that have people live in huts and cook over fires. But this book was compelling because of Mattie, the protagonist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/828873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was really good. I am still trying to figure out how I feel about the ending. The whole book had me feeling so many different emotions and I keep thinking about what I would have done in Mattie's situation. I so badly wanted her to experience true happiness. It made me realize wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37834576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fast, easy weekend read by an author I enjoy. Fiction, but it seemed like I was actually reading a real person's diary. I agree with what Robin said:<br/>&quot;Mattie and I could totally hang out. If we were homesteading together we would be best friends. This is a book about keeping it together, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61469241">more...</a>]]></body>
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