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  <title><![CDATA[A Green Journey]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;Hassler's characters have old-fashioned values and typical human failings; they make this a novel to restore your faith in humanity.&quot;&lt;br&gt;LOS ANGELES TIMES&lt;br&gt;Agatha McGee is following a dream, though it might be late in the game. She's just retired from a career of teaching and travels to Ireland in search of the romance she never had time for. And along the way, she not only discovers people she would never have let herself know before, but learns through experience, at long last, that love is unpredictable, unstoppable, and never appears as we dream it will. &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">1984</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jon Hassler]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In his fourth novel Hassler returns to Staggerford, Minn., for the first time since &quot;Staggerford;&quot; not that his incisive looks at small-town Midwestness in places not named Staggerford are big departures. Here, in fact, much of the plot ends up taking place abroad.<br/><br/>The strong-wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38770233">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 08:31:59 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping to get more out of this book, and I'm not sure how it made it to my to read list. I thought I was looking for funny, comical books and this one came up. It was available on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bookmooch.com">bookmooch.com</a> so I mooched and read it. <br/><br/>There are comments on the back about wanting to read aloud pas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45614352">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Staggerford book of characters we've met before, here a retired teacher. &quot;Green&quot; refers to going on a trip to Ireland to meet a man she's been penpals with who turns out to be a priest who wanted a friend who didn't relate to him as a priest but as a person.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 14:09:54 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm actually re-reading this book, in preparation for our trip to Ireland. Beautifully written, funny, touching. I love Jon Hassler.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Jon Hassler, his work is like a soothing bedtime story--very calming and relaxing.  His characters are fun and his writing is very calming to me.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this very gentle fiction, an unmarried retired school teacher travels to Ireland to meet the penpal she has written to for four years. The plot thickens when she learns he is a priest. I enjoy almost everything this author writes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Staggerford's prim Agatha McGee bonds over letters with a like-minded witty Irishman named James O'Hannon and finds herself in the Emerald Isle.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Agatha McGee is a great character. She would likely hate me, but I still visit her every few years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars. Agnes is a wonderful, feisty character. love her. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Agatha McGee and Father James O'Hannon - I loved it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this author!]]></body>
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