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    <body><![CDATA[Ten minutes ago, I am sitting out on my porch weeping like a baby and crushing this book to my chest, and then I come inside and read some chick's scathing review, and suddenly, I can't think to write all the things I wanted to write a moment ago, becaase my head is full of arguments against each of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3425874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, how I ended up loving this book! It's totally a 5-star read because it felt so real and brought out such emotion in me. I ended up crying and it just got me thinking about my own identity and my relationship with my mom in particular. But really it's just an interesting story about time and how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65207894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book - it was entertaining, funny, sad, everything a good book should be.  Unputdownable.  I especially loved the author's trick of letting you know what external &quot;characters&quot; were thinking - CVS clerks, waiters, etc. - versus what the characters were sure they were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76058229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a five star book for me because I could not stop reading it this weekend! I read it during my lunch break at work and then continued reading it after dinner until nearly 11, that in and of itself is unusual for me! After reading two other titles by this author, Forever Changes and How Ya Lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56125990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because I am a high school librarian, I mainly read YA novels. Every once in a while, I will venture into the world of adult fiction - usually at the insistence of my husband whose reading suggestions have never let me down. This book was WONDERFUL! Funny, sexy, heartbreaking - all the elements I ap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49880210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay. I came thisclose to posting on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://amazon.com">amazon.com</a> about how terrible this book was, but I decided against it. The writer's karma and all. <br/><br/>But I can't restrain myself. This book was a waste of my money. It had a unique concept behind it: two characters, Mark and Phillippa, were both spurned...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/778362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me forever to read this, even though it's a pretty quick read.  Twenty years go by pretty quickly in the first half and then the second half is very slow-moving...  I'll be posting about it on my blog soon. (Today even, maybe.)  It's very Run Lola Run meets Nick Hornby, but more wholesome th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45348945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had so so luck with reading books based on song titles (the good: I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. The bad: Love Is the Drug)...but I'm going to give this Belle &amp; Sebastian named book a chance. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i feel like i should probably hate this book (so twee! right down to the belle and sebastian title.) and yet, i pretty much loved it. go figure. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because I was curious as to whether a connection to the Belle &amp; Sebastian song would emerge. In the end however, there was none. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of my life. At the time. It was magical, and I wanted dearly to marry the author before I learned he was happily wedded.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm going to guess this is maybe targeted for highschool girls, it was of no interest to me. Very sophmoric.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the &quot;punk rock&quot; stuff was cheesy, otherwise a good little story bout luv.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book title takes its namesake from a belle and sebastian song which is the first thing that made me want to read it.  i found myself relating to this book a little more than most probably would because the book involves some pop culture references and one of the main characters is a teacher.  a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4416983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely adored this book. It's a romance for those of us who usually can't really stomach romances ... a love story about the way love REALLY is: messy, inconvenient, full of conditions and compromises. It's great the way it takes the life stories of two damaged people who are widely separated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8044992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perfectly fun book, chick-lit for guys.  I have absolutely no reason to recommend it to anyone, but I wouldn't steer anyone away, either.  I enjoyed the narrative voice a lot, and the dialogue snaps happily away.  But it's not gonna make you any brighter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Man, what is up with novels about music and where are the good ones -- other than High Fidelity? Even Lethem can't do it. This book, like all of the books I can think of who try to capture musicians / a music scene, felt flat and cliched. Sigh. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the first half of this book.  It's so well written and the stories are great.  I related to both of the characters.  But something happens in the second half that let me down.  the  writing changes and I lose interest in the characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  Many writers can create realistic situations within the context of their writing, but I felt that<br/>Halpin did an excellent job creating real characters- a much harder task. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a fun easy read in which i identified with the main characters struggle to accept her past mistakes + love herself fully: past present + future.  great dialog that kept me laughing.]]></body>
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