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  <title><![CDATA[Then She Found Me]]></title>
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  <default_description>Meet April Epner, the serious, scholarly, adopted daughter of two equally staid parents. They die, but April finds that she's far from orphaned when her birth mother, Bernice Graverman, comes to claim April's heart and improve her wardrobe and love life, too. April is a Latin teacher, given to wearing flannel jumpers. Bernice is hostess of a third-rate daytime talk show and wears designer labels and toad-sized earrings. She descends upon April's quiet life with the tact of a size-six locust, and the delightful and surprising results of this unlikely reunion will keep you turning pages long after bedtime.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Elinor Lipman]]></name>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Book Lust author Nancy Pearl]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Features an overly histrionic birth mother, who hosts her own local talk show, finding the daughter she gave up for adoption some thirty years ago. If you know some people that like to &quot;perform&quot;, even in the absence of cameras, you might get some good laughs reading about the birth mother....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23484094">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Mar 19 15:17:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 27 08:45:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elinor Lipman is one of my favorite authors. I re-read Then She Found Me in preparation for the April release of the film -- directed by and starring Helen Hunt. The book and movie are different (plots vary greatly) but both have the same Lipman charm. Yeah for Elinor (and Helen)!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 13 08:46:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 20 08:41:29 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the trailer for the movie that is based on this book and thought I would like to see it - then I found out it was rated R. Saw the book in the grocery store last week and bought it. The first chapter is one of the greatest hooks I have ever read, starting with the sentence, &quot;My biological...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24406577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31552425">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 29 15:48:55 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised that this book was so good and I can even say that Elinor Lipman is a bit of a discovery for me.  The edition that I have is from one of my library booksale forays into the &quot;oversize paperback&quot; section (which evolved from the slightly higher brow &quot;trade paperback&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31552425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30892969">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 22 08:13:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 22 14:39:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elinor Lipman tells stories that might be about people you know, with characters, relationships, and situations all layered and believable. I almost feel as if I'm looking into people's windows. In her novels I've read, the endings are happy but not pat. I looked for <em>Then She Found Me</em> after hearing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30892969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23465745">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 01 16:16:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 08 17:22:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed Elinor Lipman's books in the past, and picked this one up to read after seeing a trailer for the Helen Hunt/Bette Midler film.  It became immediately apparent that, outside of the main characters, the film holds little resemblance to the book.  (See Lipman's blog post on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23465745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34085562">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 19:48:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 28 19:53:53 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so surprised to see that this book had been turned into a movie.  It wasn't a very good movie, which is probably why I didn't know anything about it until I saw it on a flight home last summer.  The movie was almost nothing like the book--which was great.  I loved the premise--a &quot;Sally Je...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34085562">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 09 15:52:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 09 16:01:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had my doubts when I first started reading this novel - narrated by an adult adopted person (sensible and down-to-earth) who is unexpectedly contacted by her birth mother (flamboyant to say the least - in the movie the birthmom is played by Bette Midler).  The plot seems headed for improbable and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32469864">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 31 11:51:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 08 08:48:48 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boring, snoring. I was listening to this on downloadable and missed a part. I realized then that I didn't care enough about the characters or the story to go back to here I had left off. So I quit. It was quite liberating, really.]]></body>
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    <review id="41366715">
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  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 21:17:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 21:19:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know why I read this...maybe the report on NPR about Helen Hunt working so hard to make the movie.  I don't know, reading it made me NOT want to see the movie.  It was okay but not real memorable.  Another one of those contemporary bestsellerish books.  I'd recommend this to folks who don't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41366715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23857012">
    <user id="902083">
    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 06 09:27:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 16 19:37:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read several books by Lipman, but I think this might be my favorite so far. I loved it. The characters were so well developed and quirky, and I grew fond of all of them, even Bernice! The plot moved along very well and I just enjoyed reading it. My only slight quibble is that the subplot about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23857012">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22324611">
    <user id="4216">
    <name><![CDATA[Katherine]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 15 15:30:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in anticipation of the upcoming Helen Hunt movie, which I thought looked pretty good.  It turns out the movie story and the book story are pretty different, but I genuinely enjoyed the book.  It was well written - much better than I expected from the look and feel of the story/cover...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22324611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6137406">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 13 05:41:43 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lipman's books look as if they must be 'guilty pleasure' books, but I swear they're good--Lipman has a singular voice and dry sense of humor. They're in a class of books that is hard to come by--maybe not 'literary fiction' but fun: well-written keen studies of people.  Though I and others might arg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6137406">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very sweet, lightweight, and enjoyable. A pleasant and entertaining read about a woman in her mid-thirties who, after the deaths of her adoptive parents, is contacted by her birth mother: a self-centered local talk-show personality whose policy of truth-telling is somewhat loose.]]></body>
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    <review id="21199997">
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not at all what I expected from a book about adoption and the search by the biological mother for her daughter given up as an infant.  It was actually hilarious!  The mother is a piece of work and definitely not someone the daughter was interested in getting to know.  Fun book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What fun it was to read this book! April Epler's adoptive parents were Holocaust survivors, serious, sometimes sad people with German accents, but they loved her and gave her a good home. After their death, she meets Bernice, her flamboyant talk show host birth mother, and later her real father, who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69298548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite Elinor, but still great fun.  Just found out (Aug 07) that it's being made into a movie, and it's Helen Hunt's feature directorial debut.  With Colin Firth and Bette Midler as the mom - what fun!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping as I got into this book it would become more interesting...more witty or heartwarming- it didn't.  I thought the bernice character would be more interesting, but she was not enjoyable to read.  I did like the relationship between Dwight and April.  For that reason alone I gave this two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45795018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I snatched this book off the library shelf randomly one day. The cover has an image of Bette Midler on her knees in front of Helen Hunt. Although these two were well cast as Bernice and April, I was frustrated that I couldn't create these characters in my own mind, but oh well.<br/>This is another ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52589625">more...</a>]]></body>
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