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    <body><![CDATA[A good book.  It's not about Asian cooking. Emma Donoghue is an up-and-coming Irish writer.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a perfect book to read on a cosy autumn day! Love this book to bits, going on literally.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i am such a sucker for a good lesbian story, and i think this is one of the best.  i remember finishing it over some depressing stint at home and walking around for the rest of the day with a doofy grin on my face.  it did however, make me really nervous 3/4ths of the way through because i realized ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8940550">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book so much that I want to read it again for the first time, if that makes any sense. It is a smart, genuine, endearing coming-of-age novel that turns a lot of the typical coming-of-age cliches on their head. I can't say much more about it without giving away the ending (which I think i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12617172">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stir Fry is a novel about a first-year college student in Dublin who is the unknowing third side to a lesbian love triangle. This is Donaghue's first novel, and so the writing is a bit off and sometimes I felt like she was writing the story as though she were transcribing a movie; however, I give it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4436787">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dit boek heeft een ongelooflijk diepe indruk op me gemaakt. Scherpe analyse van verschillende soorten relaties en meteen een coming of age boek. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First lesbian novel I've read. This book was mailed to me all the way from New Zealand!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was a baby lesbian, I really really wanted to make a movie of this book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book for young feminists or feminists who used to be young.]]></body>
    
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