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  <title><![CDATA[The Scenic Route: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Binnie Kirshenbaum]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I didn't know the author personally and respect her work, I don't think there's any way I would browse through a bookstore and pick this one out. For one, the cover looks like a poster for a sugary Jennifer Aniston movie. Strike Two is the first sentence, which is completely melodramatic and inau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66989308">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78391637">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The funny thing about _The Scenic Route_ is that I didn't even care about the story of Sylvia and Henry.  I was interested in Sylvia's asides, and her trips back in time.  She tells us interesting facts not only about her family, but about history as well! <br/><br/>I felt like we never really go to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78391637">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m glad I finished this novel over a lunch break at work; else, I would have had to curl up someplace and bawl for a while. From the very beginning, “The Scenic Route” is about endings.<br/>Sylvia Landsman, fortyish, divorced, childless, having been laid off from a job she didn’t care abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59553501">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, another book lent to me by my neighbor and one that I hadn't heard of but am giving 4 stars to which I don't give to many books but this book was just so well written. This is a book narrated by Sylvia, a single, divorced, middle aged woman who when laid off from her job, goes to Europe for a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73220758">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was torn between selecting 3 stars and 4 stars but opted for 4 ultimately (rounding up for the real score: 3.5). Anyway, the book is so creative in its storytelling approach (albeit a bit confusing at times) and is probably the most appropriately titled book I've ever read because of this approach...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68880003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62935053">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not what I expected, yet surprisingly engaging. I thought it was going to be a travel/vacation novel, with a little summer romance thrown in. It ended up being a journey through a woman's past, her relationships, and I got better glimpses at the South and other US regions than I did of Europe, where...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62935053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64424720">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't so sure about this one until I finished it.  It was kind of crazy throughout...jumped back and forth between the present and the past of the main character Sylvia and her family.  At first I wasn't even sure if it was taking place  in this time frame...<br/>I liked the writing style and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64424720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69837275">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My expectations for this book were low - I imagined it would be an undistinguishable bit of chick lit summer reading.  I'm pleased to be proved wrong.  The journey Kirshenbaum creates, both through Europe and through the past, is well-written and engaging.  I'm confused by those who refer to her as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69837275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59266575">
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    <name><![CDATA[Meghan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 27 13:39:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was turned on to this book by the prose. I usually don't like books about middle aged women--they're either sappy or ridiculous. The prose is why I gave it a chance, but the reflection is what kept me reading. No, the plotline isn't anything to write home about, but then, that's not really the poi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59266575">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65357034">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 21:03:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one that stays with you after reading it.  The characters are flawed, but they are human, and I could relate to them.  These lines especially resonated with me: <br/><br/>    &quot;The moral of the story is this:  sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65357034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65583307">
    <user id="2241018">
    <name><![CDATA[Jessie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Nashville, TN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 30 16:13:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 30 16:16:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[AGAIN, in the 3-4 range. In some ways, this book was very good--engrossing, thought provoking, philosophical, slightly po-mo with it's dropping in of remembered phrases. In other ways, though, it was not so good--the characters, for example. I felt that they were very poorly fleshed out. I never saw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65583307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59908995">
    <user id="244939">
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    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 11:52:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the current age of recession and double digit unemployment percentages, the catalyst of Sylvia's story rings of the familiar: she loses her job.  However, rather than gathering her pennies and unemployment checks like a squirrel preparing for a long winter, she drops everything and runs to Italy....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59908995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55934573">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good when I was actually reading it, but I wasn't thinking about it when I wasn't reading it. And at first I wasn't sure if I was going to like the prose style, which is as if someone were speaking rather than writing, but the voice is well spoken, and I didn't mind after the first 50 ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55934573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55755662">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rochelle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[All I could think of while I was reading this book was a) I need to stop getting book recommendations from Oprah Magazine or Real Simple and b)  this author really teaches writing at Columbia?  I suppose if I was a middle-age woman plodding along in life and going through some sort of crisis or hopi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55755662">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55660035">
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  <read_at>Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read (or at least, read half of) this book because indie publisher, promoter, and book junkie Richard Nash thought I might like it.<br/><br/>The writing is deceptively simple - so simple and beautiful that you're almost tricked into thinking that it's too simple to be good fiction writing. Almos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55660035">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 had been told that this book was a european vacation romance. So, I of course thought, &quot;What a fabulous summer read!&quot; Then, I open the book, and nearly the first sentence is something along the lines of &quot;This is the story of Henry and I.....blahblahblah...didn't work out.&quot; Bang...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55608025">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 17 12:42:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book a little too stream-of-consciousness for me at times and a bit underdeveloped.  But by the end I decided I liked it enough to recommend it to others.  The novel is mostly a character novel and one that is developed through indirect story telling--an interesting literary idea, if yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63883813">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 20 13:27:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a thoroughly absorbing read.  I had the fortune to have it with me on a recent trip to the coast and it was a beautifully written story about the power of place and travel where two individuals meet by chance and then go on a lovely and heartbreaking adventure together in Europe.  Binnie Ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64254851">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Nov 03 05:48:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had such a slow start that I almost put it down many times. The last third of the book was much better. The novel definitely takes &quot;the scenic route&quot; in getting to the plot and is very disjointed and frustrating at times. All in all, it's not a bad book but I didn't think it was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76029633">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 21 13:24:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Radhika Jones picks The Scenic Route by Binnie Kirshenbaum<br/><br/>What better place to start a summer romance than a café with a view in the ancient Tuscan town of Fiesole? For Sylvia Landsman, a love affair crossed with a European road trip is a chance to reflect on her tumultuous past. But Kirs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72023141">more...</a>]]></body>
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