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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Brent called me to make sure I hadn't already read The Bruise, because he wanted to send it to me so badly.<br/><br/>I seem to be continually impressed by everything FC2 publishes, but this book is way up there - I have never read a voice like this one. What feel (in sentences, in paragr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58945846">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this book has been really interesting.  My sister's friend wrote it. It's about a girl and her imagination and what a college-aged introvert goes through.  Although I don't believe she would be your &quot;average&quot; 20-something. I do believe this girl had a REAL problem, mentally.  She wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43722165">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One night well into my second year of college, when the humming in my skull wouldn’t stop and sleep became impossible, I got up from my mattress on the floor and worked my way to the living room. With my blanket clutched at my throat, I walked to the window and stared outside. It was snowing. The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38044129">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's true my rating system is messed up. Lately I give everything five stars no matter what, when in strange moods in the past I gave one of my favorite poetry books-- Dana Levin's-- only three stars. <br/>But this book is really a five-star-er. I tried to make it last as long as I could. <br/>Eac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32383120">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Magdalena Zurawski’s new debut novel, “The Bruise” recently came out thanks to The University of Alabama Press. Zurawski examines the precincts of truth/honesty, writer/speaker, reality/dream, traditional/experimental narrative, and more. Her prose consists of tightly woven rambling sentences ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30728484">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another creatively-written book; entirely inside the head of a young woman in college who is either mentally unbalanced or severely embracing her poetic/literary leanings. The writing was refreshing, challenging, beautiful, and (be warned) stream-of-consciousness.  A great balance with the storytell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50050554">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Review on my blog here<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.com/2008/12/wound-of-consciousness.html" title="http://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot.com/2008/12/wound-of-consciousness.html">http://jacobrussellsbarkingdog.blogspot....</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I nicely bought this as a gift and then began to read it on the plane home and I'll say this, it's really good. I was just at the AWP and having the feeling that a person can have sometimes which is where are the interesting and smart queer fiction writers, and okay so she's a poet, but still. More ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46668312">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Abandoned on page 25. To be fair to the author, I knew I was getting into &quot;experimental&quot; fiction, which I seldom like, and a story about a young writer (ditto). What I wasn't expecting was to encounter such an accurate rendering of the mind of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. N...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Book club book numero dos.<br/><br/>Don't do it.]]></body>
    
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