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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book quite unnerving when I first read it, and it made a profound impression.  However, my proudest (most shameful?) moment was in college taking Shakespeare when the final exam included a question about Coriolanus, which I had not actually had time to read because so busy writing in my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28126493">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has become closer to Emily Gregory, a blind and brilliant young musician, than to her sister Suzy.<br/>     With the Austins going in different directions, they don&#8217;t notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood&#8212;and it&#8217;s centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don&#8217;t start telling each other what&#8217;s going on, someone just might get killed.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Square Fish is re-releasing the entire Austin Family Chronicles, handsomely repackaged. I read this one first, and it was like a wrinkle in time meets the hardy boys in St. John's Cathedral. Interesting in that it's both edgier and younger than her more popular series (and that the protagonists are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29941582">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has become closer to Emily Gregory, a blind and brilliant young musician, than to her sister Suzy.<br/>     With the Austins going in different directions, they don&#8217;t notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood&#8212;and it&#8217;s centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don&#8217;t start telling each other what&#8217;s going on, someone just might get killed.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eek, I found this book bizarre and it really stretched credibility. It took me a while to figure out what it was 'about' in terms of Vicky's overall arc (though this book is not from V's p.o.v.), and I finally decided it was about perspectives: Family meets World, in terms of Vicky seeing her family...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77627555">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is very hard for me to pick my favorite of the Madeleine L'Engle books I've read, but this one is definitely towards the top of the list. The writing is beautiful as always, the plot and characters engaging, and even though the central family may seem to perfect for words and things may wrap up f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40734734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;They had been standing around the lamp, looking at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected to hear a sepulchral voice behind them.<br/><br/>&quot;You called me?&quot;<br/><br/>They swung around. . .<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book doesn't seem to fit well with the other Austin family novels.  I enjoy it, but only if I can let go of my expectations about an Austin book.  <br/>I missed having Vicky's perspective on everything in this book; I wonder why Ms. L'Engle chose to tell the story more-or-less through Josiah D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16512495">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up at the library on my bike ride a few weeks ago. I couldn't resist its newly issued cover, and I only read this particular L'Engle once, a long time ago, in the beginning of high school. I figured it was time for a re-read. It's not my favorite of her books, but it certainly is an en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71551160">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;They had been standing around the lamp, looking at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected to hear a sepulchral voice behind them.&quot;You called me?&quot;They swung around. . .&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 11 10:54:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Austins have ended their roadtrip in the wilds of NYC, where intrigue awaits in L'Engle's employer, the Cathedral of St. Paul. <br/>This book tries to explore the same issues of a Wrinkle in Time, but in a much less well thought out way. The story's interesting but ridiculous, and not in a high...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37432410">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Young Unicorns: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 3]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has become closer to Emily Gregory, a blind and brilliant young musician, than to her sister Suzy.<br/>     With the Austins going in different directions, they don&#8217;t notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood&#8212;and it&#8217;s centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don&#8217;t start telling each other what&#8217;s going on, someone just might get killed.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 23 17:12:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[New York City is odd at best, but when the Austin family start having strange encounters with the other residents of the city, things get messy. Suzy and Rob, the youngest, are convinced they saw a genie. Dr. Austin is being followed. And Vicky's new friend was blinded in a theft of valuable papers....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50227159">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;They had been standing around the lamp, looking at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected to hear a sepulchral voice behind them.&quot;You called me?&quot;They swung around. . .&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because L'Engle changes the point of view in this book from Vicky Austin to a young man the family has met while living in New York City, it takes some getting used to the difference in style from her previous novels. The theme of good and evil prevails, as in most of her books, and L'Engle provides...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49260192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has become closer to Emily Gregory, a blind and brilliant young musician, than to her sister Suzy.<br/>     With the Austins going in different directions, they don&#8217;t notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood&#8212;and it&#8217;s centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don&#8217;t start telling each other what&#8217;s going on, someone just might get killed.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[this one is so dramatically different from moon by the night and meet the austins!  i didn't realize how NYC has such a culture of fear in the 60s.  it's a little creepy, a little exciting, and no one gets seriously hurt.  five stars all around.  however- why the young unicorns? other than one littl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74086935">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was good ... it was a different stroke from L'Engle's other books about the Austins -- much more in the vein of &quot;A Small Rain&quot; or &quot;A Severed Wasp&quot;. It wasn't the light, easy read I'd gotten accustomed to as I read the other Austin books (I'll admit, I read them out of order)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75993007">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my own terminology, I found this novel to be &quot;kookoo bananas.&quot;  Although there is a similar tone to the first two novels in this series, this book veers off sharply by introducing several new main characters and focusing heavily on the religious themes.  I did not enjoy it as much since...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79758371">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like the Alphabats, but it was clever, sort of like Alphabet (and they were A, B, C, etc. in order of rank.  A was highest, B next highest, etc.) and then they were Bats too.  I thought that was clever.  Also the Micro-Ray was cool.  I hope we never get that sort of technology in our societ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73456701">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even taking the Time Quartet into consideration, this is just about my favorite L'Engle book. Emily Gregory is an amazing character and the plot -- including shenanigans around St. John the Divine -- remains one of the strangest, most involving I've read, since I first read this at age 11.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[They had been standing around the lamp, looking  at Emily holding it in her strong fingers, rubbing  it. Certainly none of them, not even Rob, expected  to hear a sepulchral voice behind  them.<br/><br/><br/><br/>&quot;You called  me?&quot;<br/><br/><br/><br/>They swung around.<br/><br/>Standing looking down on them was a tall, powerful figure in long smoky green robes and a pale-blue turban. He repeated, &quot;You called me? I am the genie Hythloday, the servant of the lamp.&quot;<br/><br/>A bizarre and terrifying plot to rule New York City means extreme danger for the Austin family and their friends, all of whom are targets for corruption -- or destruction. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't finish. I'm not really a big fan of &quot;A wrinkle in time&quot; by the same author. I only picked this up because I am on a quest for books set in New York City. This is the third novel in a series, which I didn't know. I read 100 pages. I gave it my best shot.<br/>]]></body>
    
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