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  <read_at>Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Hamilton, author of the emotionally wrenching &quot;A Map of the World&quot; and &quot;The Book of Ruth&quot;, is trying her hand at humor this spring in this tale of two marriages and four profoundly disassociated people.<br/><br/>Laura and Charlie Rider are childless and the proprietors of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44815428">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fairly dull little sex comedy, in which wannabe romance novelist Laura Rider sorta kinda engineers an affair between her husband, Charlie, and Jenna Faroli, a local radio personality. Despite the possibility of some Cyrano-like shenanigans (Laura writes or co-writes many of Charlie's amorous email...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45998662">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>Synopsis: <br/>&quot;Married for 12 years, Laura and Charlie Rider have come to share almost everything: their nursery business, their love for their animals, and, most especially, their zeal for storytelling. And though they no longer share a bed, they are happy enough continuing along...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50827975">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say? I was excited to read the ARC of Jane Hamilton's newest book because I've read her fiction before and liked it but nowadays I'm just not as intrigued by novels about infidelity. I'm just now and that's the whole premise of this book and I'm not spoiling it because it says so on the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41477463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not get into this book even after a couple of chapters.  I actually returned it to the bookstore.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laura Rider’s Masterpiece is the story of Laura, an aspiring writer, her affable and henpecked husband, Charlie, and the object of their affection, local radio personality Janna Faroli.  The book is described as a “full-blown comedy”, but the humor is of the driest, darkest variety.  The story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70607292">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Hamilton's latest novel has a delightful premise. Laura and Charlie Rider own a Midwestern landscape business, for which Laura writes a newsletter. Charlie is a fantastic lover, a man whose equal doses of femininity and masculinity make his understanding of women profound. Laura suffers from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67018323">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this book 4 stars because it was well-written with a good dose of humor and some real depth. Not really 5 stars because although I liked the characters they never became &quot;real&quot; to me, in the sense that I forgot they were characters in a novel.<br/><br/>On the surface, the story is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65691799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It should surprise no one who knows me to learn my bookshelves have a ranking system.<br/><br/>Where a book is placed -- on five sets of shelves across four rooms -- will show you how high it is on my personal favorites list. Both A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, by Jane Hamilton, are on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61487229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laura Rider lives with her husband, Charlie, in Hartley, Wis., where they own and run the Prairie Wind Farm. After 12 years of marriage, Laura decides to stop sleeping with Charlie, and although Charlie’s best talent is lovemaking, she has decided that she’s done with the whole &quot;sex&quot; t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50744201">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great beginning turns into a bizarre story.  Laura Rider has &quot;sexual fatigue&quot; from her exuberant husband of 12 years, Charlie.  They agree to stop having sex and seem to be living a nice life, running their impressive and beautiful gardening farm.  But then Jenna Faroli, an NPR personality...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60903356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laura and Charlie Rider own and run Prairie Wind Farm in rural Wisconsin, with Laura ruling and delegating, and Charlie obliging along. While she is planting and pruning, Laura Rider listens to Jenna Faroli of the famous Jenna Faroli Radio Show and dreams of writing a romance novel. She envisions Je...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52480547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is very different from past books by Jane Hamilton;  although it did not grab me like &quot;Map of the World&quot; or Book of Ruth&quot;, it is witty, and sometimes a little bizarre.  Laura Rider decides she wants to write a romance novel, although she is not much of a reader, and has neve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69139778">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hamilton whips out a tidy novel about a woman who tires of intimacy with her husband and decides to expend her energy writing a novel for &quot;Every Woman&quot;.  When her radio hero moves into town, Laura Rider decides to encourage a friendship between her husband and the public radio personality....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62930098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short novel is sort of horrible and sort of wonderful at the same time. Laura Rider manipulates her husband and a famous radio personality into adultery and uses their ridiculous, passionate exchanges as fodder for constructing the perfect romance novel. Each character is an oddball and you wil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76772791">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Other Jane Hamilton books have received good reviews, so I thought that I would try this one when I saw it at the library. I hated it. I found that the main character's attempts to research how a fully actualized, successful woman would fall in love by engineering an affair between her husband and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73657777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Hamilton is one of the best writers working in American fiction today.  She is also one of the darkest.  So when she decides to write a flat-out comedy, it isn't surprising that somewhere around the halfway point the fizzy brew starts to curdle.  That's just where she lives.  This mostly deligh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64127232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of Jane Hamilton's work and was so looking forward to reading this. I will admit that the cover and immediately laugh-out-loud opening chapter are what sucked me in.<br/><br/>From that point on, the novel went downhill for me. What I thought was going to be a funny book soon turned...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58001979">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[UGh, this book was a task to read.  Honestly, I just wanted to put it down after a hundred pages, but by that time I was half-way through the book already.  It did pick up speed after that point, and I was able to relate in some ways to the Wisconsin references, but it was dull and hard to read.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56841864">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book because of an intriguing review that described it as &quot;chick lit with delusions of literary grandeur&quot;.  I wasn't impressed.  Laura Rider wants to write a novel.  She comes up with a plan to study characters first hand--when her husband befriends her hero, an national radio ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62813587">more...</a>]]></body>
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