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  <title><![CDATA[Her Fearful Symmetry]]></title>
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  <default_description>Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers &#8212; normal, at least, for identical &#8220;mirror&#8221; twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home. But everything changes when they receive notice that an aunt whom they didn&#8217;t know existed has died and left them her amazing flat in a building by Highgate Cemetery in London. They feel that at last their own lives can begin &#8230; but they have no idea that they&#8217;ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the OCD-suffering crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt&#8217;s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them, and even to their aunt herself, who never got over her estrangement from the mother of the girls &#8212; her own twin &#8212; and who can&#8217;t even seem to quite leave her flat&#8230;.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Audrey Niffenegger]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like so many other readers, I was enchanted by The Time Traveler’s Wife.  There was a willing suspension of disbelief on my part (which goes against my skeptical and cynical nature) but the story was sweet and engaging enough to pull it off.  Not so much with Her Fearful Symmetry.  Again, through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74164299">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Niffenegger's first novel before the days of GR; and I remembered when I decided to rate it, I wavered between 3 (liked it) and 4 stars (really liked it).  I ended up opting for 4 stars, because I did remember so much of it due to its sense of place and its unique storytelling.  Her second no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74398909">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 10:54:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fact that this book is titled after a line in one of my least favorite poems ever* should perhaps be a strike against it, but the title is quite fitting and somehow makes even more sense in this context than in Blake's use of it. This is the story of two sets of twins (hence the symmetry) who ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74284532">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 27 23:58:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just some thoughts: I loved this novel...but in a completely different way than I love The Time Traveler's Wife.  I wasn't sure what to expect so I tried not to have any expectations, which is exactly the attitude to have going into this book.  It has what now seems to be Niffenegger's style of writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48080075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68753668">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Oct 06 07:27:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many thanks to Regal Literary for sending me an ARC, and also to Audrey for accepting my invitation to appear here for a Q&amp;A session!!<br/><br/>I don't think there is a more fitting time of year for curling up with this novel - Chilly mornings, Damp afternoons, wrapped in a blanket watching the le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68753668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68241870">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 10 14:36:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can easily say that this is the best new book I've read this year. If you like deliciously strange ghost stories, this book will definitely satisfy your appetite. I had to make myself read it slowly so that I could savor every morsel of the spell it cast on me when I would read it.<br/><br/>At t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68241870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64091539">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Oct 26 07:06:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel the same way how other readers feel about the book. First, I wish we had a 1/2 star rating. I also thought that TTW was much better.I wanted to give it 3 1/2 starts but gave it benefit of the doubt and gave it 4.  <br/><br/>This post contains major spoilers... if you have not read the book,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64091539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63381689">
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    <name><![CDATA[Crystal]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 20:55:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 09 09:45:12 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[November: I went to see Audrey Niffenegger at an event for the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival. She was fabulous. A very dry and sarcastic sense of humour and when I went and had my book signed afterwards she was so warm and appreciative that I was a fan. I had my book signed an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63381689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72945158">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 11:52:33 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of this novel was lovely...beautifully written and intriguing, with characters I found interesting and a plot that had all kinds of potential. I quickly grew frustrated, though, with the characters' general inertia and then their downright horribleness towards the end (with the excepti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72945158">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who likes a good ghost story..]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story is a ghost story but not your typical malevolent ghost story, at least I didn't think so. The story started out at Elspeth's funeral, who died young of cancer and it started telling a bit about each character in attendance. Neighbors Martin, who has a crippling obsessive compulsive disord...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76767151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77557966">
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 12 10:43:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to love The Time Traveler's Wife....but I didn't. I thought that novel started well and then. . .lost its way. This one almost does the same, but instead it revs up the stakes and, I think, works, though I really wanted to get to the end to find out if my supposition about what would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77557966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77127723">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Time Traveller's Wife&quot; this is not; TTW was a poignant story about normal people trying to live in, and make sense of, an abnormal situation.  In contrast, &quot;Her Fearful Symmetry&quot; has a shortage of even moderately well-adjusted, let alone likable, characters and a storyline t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77127723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77011704">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While certainly not the romantic tour de force that &quot;The Time Traveler's Wife&quot; was, &quot;Her Fearful Symmetry&quot; is a thoughtful book that I had a hard time putting down.  There were points where the characters were quite lovable and then there were points where they...weren't.  Most c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77011704">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[***you don't want to read if you haven't already read this book**<br/> First of all the end of this book did not leave me with a particularly satisfied feeling. I think I was more awestruck at the ending - although awestruck can often equate to meditation. Why did the author choose to end the book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76948971">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76629913">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76629913">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[First, I need to mention that I was more excited to read “Her Fearful Symmetry” than anything else in the past few years. Audrey Niffenegger’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” is one of my all time favorite books, so the bar was set high for her second novel. <br/><br/>Now that my confession...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76081211">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 28 08:23:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ms. Niffenegger did not disappoint. Her new novel is a dark, gothic, ghost story. One could even say it is a dark, gothic, love story. The story features two different generation of twins. Elspeth &amp; Edie. And Valentina &amp; Julia. Valentina &amp; Julia are living in America with their parents Edie &amp; Jack w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76000128">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 20 17:13:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give it better than a 3 star because I think the author was successful with the telling of the story. It was appalling, sad, tender, and surprising. I did not love everything about the end, but I wasn't turned off by it. I've read a few reviews that are really upset with the end or the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75178355">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could give 3.5 stars, that is what I'd give this one.  Goodreads, give me a half star to work with, it'd make rating so much easier! :) <br/><br/>I thought that this book started slow, but I think really it just took me a long time to warm up to the characters.  To be honest, I never really f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74999588">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Oct 18 11:23:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After a gripping and heart breaking work like the Time Traveler's Wife, Niffenegger must be sweatin' in her boots at how this, her second novel, will be received by the masses. <br/><br/>This book is just as compelling to read as TTW - Niffenegger has a gift for finding the new in an old plot line...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74927744">more...</a>]]></body>
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