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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed reading this throughout the advent season. It starts with a reading for Nov. 24 and goes to Jan. 7.  It has famous writers such as Thomas Merton, Annnie Dillard, Martin Luther, C.S. Lewis etc.<br/><br/>Carolyne]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love to read this book during Advent, Christmas and the days of Epiphany that follow.  While I might not get to everything, there's such a range of people in this book that it's always different, always a changing perspective.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this during Advent in 2006 and can't say that I've read the entire book yet.  I really like the essays and entries that I've read, I'm just not very good at keeping up with a daily devotional type of book.  But I'm content to skip around, reading it when it works out and absorbing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40326282">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoying a tool to turn my thoughts toward the real reason for the season this Advent Season.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read portions of this each Advent.  Very nice with beautiful prose by various authors.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good mix of theology and inspiring writing, with a few pages to read each day of Advent.  I found it a good focus to read in the Christmas season.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book for the short time I had it from the library. The devotionals were thought provoking, and spent the day rattling around in my mind--as I pondered Emmanuel, God with us. ]]></body>
    
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