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  <title><![CDATA[Twenties Girl: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don&#8217;t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When the spirit of Lara&#8217;s great-aunt Sadie&#8211;a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance&#8211;mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie&#8217;s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara, on the other hand, has a number of ongoing distractions. Her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is floundering, and she&#8217;s just been dumped by the &#8220;perfect&#8221; man.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sadie, however, could care less.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the mission to find Sadie&#8217;s necklace leads to intrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very different &#8220;twenties&#8221; girls learn some surprising truths from each other along the way. Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella&#8217;s books beloved by millions, &lt;i&gt;Twenties Girl &lt;/i&gt;is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sophie Kinsella made me feel like I was visiting with a best friend every time I went on another zany, warmhearted adventure with Becky Bloomwood--and Kinsella herself seemed quite a kindred spirit when my sister and I attended her book talk for &quot;Shopaholic and Baby&quot; a few years ago--so I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48013108">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 19:43:43 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have yet to meet a Sophie Kinsella novel that I don't like. Kinsella remains true to her lighthearted, hilarious style with Twenties Girl and I, for one, am grateful for it.<br/>Lara is comparable to the rest of Kinsella's heroines: sweet, idealistic, and a bit ditzy (but not so much that you end...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42416335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72450511">
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    <location><![CDATA[Barrie, ON, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 25 09:04:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 31 18:33:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy the start of the book. However, it picked up and I enjoyed the humour shared between Great Aunt Sadie and Lara. <br/><br/>Lara is your clueless chick lit character who becomes much too obsessed with a man not interested in her. When will chick lit learn to create strong female chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72450511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="79106672">
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 27 06:10:18 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 27 06:10:33 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a sweet and surprisingly heartwarming book. I do have to say, though, that this wasn't Sophie Kinsella's best, and it took me a while to get into it. Sophie Kinsella's books are known to be fun and filled with ridiculosity, but this one took it to another level.<br/><br/>In Twenties Girl,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79106672">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 11:27:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 08 11:40:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[as far as &quot;chick lit&quot; goes (&amp; there was a great little paragraph in defense of chick lit in a recent &quot;new yorker,&quot; wondering why when women write about life &amp; love in the contemporary city, it's dismissed as 'chick lit&quot; &amp; low-brow mass market beach reading, but when dudes do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73873655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71946073">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 20 20:07:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lara Lington never really knew her one hundred an five year old great aunt, Sadie. So you can imagine her surprise when Sadie appears in front of Lara’s eyes. Sadie is very much a ghost. She demands that Lara stop her funeral. She can’t go yet…not till Sadie has her necklace. So how do you sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71946073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69024436">
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    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 26 18:25:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 26 19:20:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will never understand what kind of Jedi mind tricks Sophie Kinsella employs with her books.  If any other author wrote this story I would have thrown it down in frustration.  I'd be writing a scathing review about cheap plot devices and sloppy characterization.  But, I'm not.  I enjoyed this book....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69024436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65227594">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 27 22:28:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Sophie Kinsella's best and funniest.  When Lara Lington attends the funeral of her great-aunt Sadie Lancaster (age 105) she doesn't know anything about her or want to be there.  However, Sadie has other plans as she can't rest until she finds her dragonfly necklace and she needs Lara's help i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65227594">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jul 25 13:33:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Twenties Girl didn't turn out to be one of my Kinsella faves, but it wasn't too bad.  At times, I found Lara to be rather pathetic, and was kind of disappointed that it took over 280 pages for her to come to her senses about Josh.  Also, Sadie could be very annoying at times, and though some could b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64847123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65971879">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kelly ]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Marlborough, NH]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 15:13:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed Kinsella's Shopaholic series and Remember Me and Can You Keep A Secret. This one was just okay for me. It is cute and silly and funny, but I felt it was a rip off of a movie I watched years ago (in the early 1990's) about a ghost from the 1920's who haunted a family and changed their lives...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65971879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67070542">
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    <name><![CDATA[Juli]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Murfreesboro, TN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 14 10:04:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was already irritated by the time I fully read the blurb on the inside jacket cover.  (&quot;but Sadie could care less.&quot;  REALLY?  Who are your editors, Sophie?!  Can I be one?  Because I'd never let that slide.  I've been trying in vain to find out if this kind of grammar is not only abused ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67070542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75880150">
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    <name><![CDATA[Eva]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Surprisingly - - - I liked it. I couldn't be bothered to finish Kinsella's last one (&quot;Have we met&quot;), so I didn't expect much when I started with &quot;Charleston Girl&quot;. However, after I'd managed to get through the first 100 or so pages, the story &quot;grabbed me&quot; and I just cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75880150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65304252">
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    <name><![CDATA[Talia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lara thinks she is going crazy when she sees the ghost of her recently deceased aunt, as a 1920s flapper girl. Sadie is a free spirited, adventurous ghost whom only Lara can see or hear (well, almost- when Sadie yells at the top of her lungs, others hear a faint voice they mistake for their conscien...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65304252">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Twenties Girl, Kinsella decided to take the leap into the make-believe world. Lara Lington is our heroine and after being forced to attend her great-aunt's(Sadie) funeral, Sadie appears to Lara, demanding that Lara find Sadie's lost neclace. <br/>Obviously as Lara and Sadie communicate, there ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65188675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72847038">
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    <name><![CDATA[Robyn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I finally finished Twenties Girl. This one took me forever. It wasn't bad, but I just couldn't get into it. Which was a disappointment. I love Sophie Kinsella but this one wasn't my favorite. There were parts were you do laugh but I wasn't falling in love with the main character.<br/><br/>The m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72847038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="79280857">
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    <body><![CDATA[This frothy concoction is the latest offering by the author of the Shopaholic series, and I found it just as fun for those looking for a light chick lit read.  Lara, struggling to cope with a recent breakup, is visited by the persistent, and at times obnoxious, ghost of her great aunt Sadie (recentl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73347588">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised by this book.  I really didn't like the first 100 pages, but it became much less annoying after that.  I am game for anything dealing with the first part of the 20th century.  The fact the main character starts to review how she sees the elderly changed my mind about the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78638152">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book in the chick lit genre and  nice deviation from Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series.  I tend to prefer the non-Shopaholic books from her and this book delivered.  The main character, Lara, actually has quite a bit more substance than a typical Kinsella main character without los...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74967066">more...</a>]]></body>
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