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  <title><![CDATA[Girl Meets God: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <default_description>The child of a Jewish father and a lapsed Southern Baptist mother, Lauren F. Winner chose to become an Orthodox Jew. But even as she was observing Sabbath rituals and studying Jewish law, Lauren was increasingly drawn to Christianity. Courageously leaving what she loved, she eventually converted. In &lt;i&gt;Girl Meets God&lt;/i&gt;, this appealing woman takes us through a year in her Christian life as she attempts to reconcile both sides of her religious identity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here readers will find a new literary voice: a spiritual seeker who is both an unconventional thinker and a devoted Christian. The twists and turns of Winner&amp;#8217;s journey make her the perfect guide to exploring true faith in today&amp;#8217;s complicated world.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Girl Meets God: A Memoir</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lauren F. Winner]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 20:00:52 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book.  I found it engaging.  I liked the voice; I felt like I would enjoy talking to Lauren Winter if I met her.  I liked reading it and will probably go back and read portions again.<br/><br/>I had a little trouble with the structure of the book.  For the first third of the book or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23111922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="850628">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 23 18:49:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 29 19:21:54 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perplexing.  A few thoughts on this account of a girl who converts to orthodox Judaism and then later decides to leave it for Christianity:<br/>1 - I guess I don't know much about Christian theology but I find it strange that someone as clearly intelligent as this girl has no problem with the doctr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/850628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47283515">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 23 13:04:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 16 13:07:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of how Lauren met her Savior, Jesus.  Coming from a broken home with a Baptist mother and Jewish father Lauren's spiritual growth begins in the Jewish faith. She brings everything that she is to this quest. She immerses herself in study, in worship traditions, in community, into Or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47283515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21327753">
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    <name><![CDATA[Samantha]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 30 10:20:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 30 10:30:21 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book deeply inspiring and somewhat related to my own struggles with faith.  It was a gift to me (in a non-pushy way) from a friend of mine from church -- a peer who took a course with me called alpha where you have the opportunities to ask all sorts of questions about God and faith and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21327753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="13578273">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who want to have lots of sex and then become a national spokesperson for abstinence]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 25 18:54:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 25 18:54:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ms. Winner has a unique and intimate voice, and I enjoyed listening to her tell her story.  Still, I agree with the other reviewers that she fails to offer any signs of awareness of her journey in a larger context. I have a ton of questions that this book brought up and it disappointed that she didn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13578273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9169243">
    <user id="248745">
    <name><![CDATA[Clare]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 15 16:52:08 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 15 17:01:34 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admire the courage it may have taken to write this book, I couldn't write so briefly about my own spiritual journeys, certainly, but I found this book to be mainly trite, self-serving, and underwhelming.  Ms. Winner claims at every turn to be over-analytical, and yet she barely scratches the surfa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9169243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9924458">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 04 07:57:11 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 04 07:57:11 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the whole, I think this book's big problem is that it's a memoir about a spiritual journey, which means it has two very different things to talk about, and both of them get short-changed because she's not a good enough writer to pull it off. The anecdotes about her life and the trajectory of her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9924458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63981938">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tucker]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 09:48:11 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an enjoyable memoir about the author's journey back and forth between Judaism and Christianity.  As someone who eventually became a professor at a divinity school, she raises many classic theological questions such as the mystery of Christ's Incarnation.  She also illustrates through her sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63981938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62220905">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 12:08:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a few years now, I have been interested in Jewish/Christian conversations about faith, and I was hopeful that this memoir from a Jewish convert to Christianity would delve deeply into some of the issues of each faith, but I found myself disappointed.  <br/><br/>This memoir was very easy to rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62220905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was expecting more from this memoir.  Lauren Winner, daughter of a lapsed Baptist mother but raised as a Reform Jew in accordance with her Jewish father's wishes, found herself increasingly drawn to Orthodox Judaism as an adolescent.  After undergoing an Orthodox Jewish conversion in college, Laur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52563010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64425671">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I take back the comment about &quot;book I can relate to&quot; I am giving this book two stars because some of it is interesting but it is also just really lacking. So here is a woman who goes from Orthodox Judaism to Anglicanism and the Episcopal church. Imagine my shock! A book by someone who beca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64425671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7234041">
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    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 16:56:58 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 07 16:56:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[True confession: I'm mostly reading this book b/c so many other people have read it. But, it's enjoyable writing and interesting to learn more about Judaism. The fact that I'm reading it probably makes _Blue Like Jazz_ feel more hopeful about sitting on my shelf for a year now. ]]></body>
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    <review id="47343996">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kenny]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a worthwhile read if for no other reason than its refreshing honesty. In her memoir, Lauren Winner describes her journey from Judaism to Christianity, and along the way unashamedly lays everything out on the table, from her unshaved legs (and her mother’s resulting disapproval) to her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47343996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51815348">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lana]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time deciding between the rating &quot;liked it&quot; and &quot;really liked it.&quot;  I did very much enjoy this book, so raw... at times familiar and at other times so unfamiliar and unique that you feel like you're staring.  I was captivated by the way she shared Judaism, with all o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51815348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59991361">
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    <name><![CDATA[Linda ]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This memoir is of one girl's journey towards a relationship with God. Neither one of her parents practices their religion, so Lauren must learn and decide for herself what she really believes and how she wants to follow God. She becomes an Orthodox Jew, but after a few years, she finds herself drawn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59991361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58572119">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book taught me more about the relationship of Judaism to Christianity than anything I had ever read before. I found that fascinating.  I also learned about the Episcopal faith and its beliefs and practices.  This book is worth reading just to learn these things. I liked her use of the church ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58572119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book because I love hearing/reading about individual spiritual journeys. Winner is brilliant and a gifted writer, and her journey is an unusual one from mixed roots in Reform Jew/Southern Baptist parents to Orthodox Judaism, to embracing Christ and then navigating her way through the op...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46184700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed this book.  The author's mother was a lapsed Baptist, and her father a reform Jew.  She grew up in a reform Jewish congregation, but sometime in late h.s. converted to orthodox Judaism.  Then in graduate school she found herself drawn to Christianity, and eventually converted again (i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63288471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book by author Lauren Winner. Lauren was raised by a reform Jewish father and a Christian mother, became an Orthodox Jew while in high school and then became a Christian while in college. At times she seemed a bit flippant and casual towards religion, but she was definitely straightfo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52204757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a memoir of the author's journey through religion, first as a Jewish convert (her mother being a non-Jew and her father being Jewish), with strong leanings to Orthodoxy, and then ultimately as a baptized Christian and Episcopalian.  Ms. Winner is also an academic, and boy is she!  As sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44170033">more...</a>]]></body>
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