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  <title><![CDATA[The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal, Book 2)]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1974</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Madeleine L'Engle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is books like <u>The Summer of the Great-Grandmother</u> that help me to remember my passion for touching the past.  Books like this that capture a bit of the wonder that I literally teeter on the edge of as I sit and listen to my own Grandmothers tell of their lives.  With each of my four Grandmothers,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52355273">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 16 18:27:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the first books I've read in a while that has let me cry - written beautifully, conveying emotions honestly and truthfully. I love L'Engle's autobiographical works. They make me feel a little bit &quot;normal&quot;, and inspire me remarkably - to write, to read, even to do my homework...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book in the series of of Madeleine L'Engle's journals.  As usual, L'Engle is thoughtful and aptly captures complexities of reality:  Here, describing the summer that her rapidly aging mother dies, L'Engle allows the sadness, ambiguity, tensions, guilt, discomfort, confusion and re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21674536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65591353">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 30 17:37:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 30 18:01:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Madeleine's commentary on her mother's decline do to Alzheimers reminded me so very much of the loss of my mother to the same, horrible disease. It was comforting to know that someone else had had the same thoughts and feelings.]]></body>
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    <review id="51479660">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 04 09:20:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 11 17:25:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I devoured this book though not as quickly as the first one as it dealt with heavier topics and had some passages that were interesting but long winded.  Madeline L'Engle continues to be one of those people I want to sit and have tea with and have good stimulating conversation about everything.]]></body>
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    <review id="73368576">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can always count on L'Engle to bare her soul articulately and honestly whether or not it reflects well on her.   I had thought that I was far enough past the deaths of my parents to finally finish up the Crosswicks Journals but the poignancy of some of the passages showed me that there probably is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73368576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56280040">
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been re-reading this. 20 years after I first read it, and now that I am witnessing the decline of my own mother, it is a good read in a &quot;whole new way!&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="19342541">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 18 10:41:24 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Madeleine L'Engle turns herself inside out in this book.  Rarely does an author allow themselves to be so transparent.  This is an author working through the myriad of emotions that come with watching and caring for a parent in decline, but also one who is paying a lasting tribute to not only her ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19342541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25757045">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another amazing book by L'Engle that centers on the theme of death. As her mother is dying, she tells the stories of not only her mother, but also her relatives as she reflects on what death means-not neccessarily in a spiritual sense, but just over all. Her books always make me think deeply about t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25757045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35895620">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 19:47:29 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 19:47:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic book for genealogists and those who love family. It comes with a lot of introspection <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136251.Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_Book_7_" title="Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling">on death and dying</a>, without being depressing. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series!<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35895620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25870072">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this more read-able than A Circle of Quiet - partly because it's more concrete and more focused.  There's a lot of ML'E's family history in here: her childhood, her mother, and her mother's ancestors.  There are a few family stories that found their way into her novels.  I really enjoyed thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25870072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11627342">
    <user id="742074">
    <name><![CDATA[Megan]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 04 08:53:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 11 11:22:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought all three of Madeleine L'Engle's diary/memoirs because I have a bizarre ambivalent love/hate of her children's books, and wanted to know more about her personally in hopes of working that out. I haven't worked up the desire yet to read any of them, yet, though. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 11 19:57:28 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a slow thoughtful read. The book didn't pull me to it every evening as some books do. But everytime I picked it up, I gleaned a nugget of truth. An emotional book, it's about the death and dying of her mother. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've recently loaned this book to a few friends who have found themselves in the difficult position of trying to figure out how to best care for an ailing parent.  It seems to help in ways that I can't.]]></body>
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    <review id="10682877">
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    <body><![CDATA[The pulling together of stories about her mother and matralineal line as she spends the difficult summer watching her mother's health and personality degrade. Sad, compelling, introspective.]]></body>
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    <review id="4070631">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Found this a little hard to follow, partly because so many of L'Engle's ancestors had similar name, but I always like what she has to say.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really liked the beginning, got bogged down in the middle with the family history stuff.  I'm looking forward to Journals 3 &amp; 4.  ]]></body>
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