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  <title><![CDATA[White is for Witching]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Helen Oyeyemi]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 28 05:34:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a genre reader, esp if we're talking the haunted house neo-gothic like this, so I'll accept that maybe I wasn't the ideal audience for this; I think my interest was in the elements that are outside of genre: something to do with the post-colonial questions of haunting (the review...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72750669">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Sep 18 18:05:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a book about a curse: there is no happy ending. Watching the hapless family swirl down the vortex of historic misdeeds supervised by a sinister domicile, I was reminded of John Wray's book Canaan's Tounge. Oyeyemi lacks his uncanny grasp of history, but she writes well how evil survives. Consum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71723668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61195542">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>White Is for Witching</em> blends gothic horror, racial politics, and the older, bloodier sort of fairy tales into a deeply unsettling novel. The story opens with a passage intentionally reminiscent of &quot;Snow White,&quot; describing the mysterious imprisonment? disappearance? death? of the heroine, M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61195542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61085948">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had this book sitting next to my computer for days now. Every time I go to write a review of it, I put it off because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it justice. This. Book. Was. Amazing. Oyeyemi is a MASTERFUL writer! Every time I read her, her prose gets more intriguing and absolutely beauti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61085948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65574618">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I think the subject matter of this book is engaging, for me, the narrative style was not. I felt that this short book (227 pages) was like wading through mud because I would start reading a passage and think it was being told by one narrator only to discover, by context, that it was a differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65574618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69726580">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 01 15:17:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this. im not sure how to review it. like the other things i have read by her, she shows a great flair for foreboding and atmosphere but the end is a void. im not sure what this book is. its not a traditional story, its kind of fairy-tale-like, but even that... there are characters who are inv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69726580">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65854515">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is absolutely hauntingly strange.<br/><br/>I'm not sure I liked it (it's more the kind of book you tell everyone about and vividly remember reading instead of actually liking), and I'm not sure that I'll clamor to read anything else by this author, but I'm very impressed.  I had planned ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65854515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60194522">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the hardest book I’ve ever tried to review. White is for witching is an enticing, complex and often perplexing read. The writing is exquisite but a little too intoxicated with itself for my taste, the twisty, high-metaphorical style making the story far more confusing than it really needs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60194522">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I happened by this book in the library and was so immediately intrigued by the title and cover that I thought what the heck? It was fun to take a chance on an author I had never heard of and a story completely off the radar of popular fiction. <br/><br/>It's a tough story to summarize, reading the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65093334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61235937">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a magical book about a strange house, its matrilineal occupants that somehow become part of it and the latest girl scion Miranda.<br/><br/>Told through first person narratives from her twin brother Eliot, her college girlfriend Ore and the house itself 29 Barton Rd (!) as well in a direct ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61235937">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The daughters of the Silver family are cursed with a hunger for things that do not nourish. The Silver girls absently smear their mouths with handfuls of dirt, lick chalk from secret pocket stashes, nibble on plastic spoons beneath the sheets. The family home in Dover holds them through their suffer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60188350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74965606">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A young woman struggles with pica while she, her twin brother, and their father struggle with her mother's death.  They also struggle with their house, which seems to have a consciousness of its own.<br/>This is an original book, with complicated characters.  It is unsettling with its depictions of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74965606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60319033">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent. Great prose: dark, sad, creepy and beautiful. Very unique, and Oyeyemi hopefully will continue to sharpen her skills as a writer because there is so much talent there. <br/><br/>Only qualm is some supproting characters and themes were introduced but weren't full explored or taken advant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60319033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64621927">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got to page 75/80 before I had to put this down. You really have to be in the right mind set for this book or you aren't going to get anywhere with it. I liked the idea but the whole trying to be mysterious when there wasn't a need didn't help me any. Maybe I'll try this again at another time. ]]></body>
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    <review id="57733748">
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  <read_at>Sat May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was sent an advance copy of this book. The style is very beautiful and embellished, but the narrative is so tangled in on itself that I will probably need to read it again in order to really understand it. I would call this both a good and bad thing.]]></body>
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    <review id="77962963">
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderfully written with intense and intimate prose.  I'm anxious to read more of Helen Oyeyemi's work after this first taste.  The mood and tone of this book was overwhelming.  It was truly an experience rather than a read.]]></body>
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    <review id="72549076">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alexis]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to enjoy this book a lot more than I did, mostly because I love gothic/neo-gothic fiction. I found all the tense and character changes a little confusing. Maybe that was part of the point, but it bugged me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know that this book addresses larger themes of anti-immigrant fervor and fear of the unknown...all done in a tip of the hat to Poe.  But, this was no Poe and the writing style drove me crazy.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whaaaaat?  That's how I felt reading most of this book.  But I kinda liked feeling that way.  Very creative and creepy.  ]]></body>
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