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    <body><![CDATA[I SO wanted to like this book!!<br/><br/>After surviving cancer, Katherine Russell Rich decides she would like to learn Hindi. Eventually, she takes off for India to study Hindi there. She lands in Udaipur in Rajastan...in the far northwest of India, very close to the border with Pakistan. (Very f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55931127">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book brought to life the joys and difficulties of learning a second language as an adult. I loved the way the book related language to culture and politics. The book includes a lot of current research on second language acquisition -- sort of appealed to the geeky professor in me, but even I go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69208455">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Can I get the time back that was spent on this book?  After two chapters I took it back to the store (and yes, those were two chapters too many).  When the clerk asked &quot;was anything wrong with the book?&quot;  I wanted to say &quot;Plenty!&quot; but refrained. Tediously written and super self-i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61456919">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really had looked forward to reading this, but it fought me all the way. The author's writing style is rather stilted, and her habit of jumping from one subject to another is confusing. I also got tired of her attitudes, which were often very self-absorbed and whiny. I only skimmed the last third ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77944212">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was about 70 pages too long. Felt that Rich could've made more edits. That said, it was a fascinating look at second languauge acquisition and life in India.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting. I enjoyed her explanation of the importance of learning other languages and how it affects the brain. In general Dreaming in Hindi didn't keep my interest.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked learning more about current day India. It was also fascinating to read more about how the brain works while learning a second language.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is part memoir, part glimpses of India, part survey of academic research on linguistics. Some of it was fascinating; some was muddled.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A surprisingly informative memoir.  Not very intimate.  For a full review:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/06/dreaming-in-hindi-by-kathy-russell-rich.html" title="http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/06/dreaming-in-hindi-by-kathy-russell-rich.html">http://satia.blogspot.com/2009/06/dreami...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in a very disjointed manner.  The author may have wanted to convey the disorienting feeling of being immersed in language you don't understand, but the result is a book which is not fun to read.  Events are foreshadowed which never eventuate, characters wander in and out in a confusing manne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64932413">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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