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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ V.I. Warshawski reigns supreme!  Sara Paretsky continues to make Vic so multi-faceted and intriguing that she cannot be denied. Finished it.  I found V.I. still strong,still a smart-mouth, but still eager to do the right thing.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Grit and determination... I could never be a PI!   <br/><br/>Consistently good, I enjoy the character.........but, somehow the living circumstances are different than I recalled.  I guess she has an upstairs apartment, but I may have missed or forgotten a part of the series.<br/><br/>When V. I....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80912153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[V.I Warshawski endures injury hostility, virtual refugee status to solve a mystery, this one reaching back in the racially-charged 1960s Chicago. Sara Paretsky's V.I. is, as usual, an admirable feminist, as is Paretsky, by the way, and her knowledge of the bad guys of both the past and the present p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80322743">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sara Paretsky is back with another blockbuster, and Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski, Chicago's favorite PI is at the top of her game. With 15 prior novels, 12 of them about V.I., Sara has kind of been wandering in the wilderness lately. She nails it with this one. It is one of the best I've read.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77986555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paretsky, Sara.  HARDBALL.  (2009).  ****.  You begin to wonder where the title of this latest V. I. Warshawski novel came from when, about two-thirds of the way through the story, a hardball with holes in it suddenly appears as a clue.  We readers know it’s a clue because why else would it appear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75965366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardball, by Sarah Paretsky, A.  narrated by susan ericksen, produced by Brilliance audio, downloaded from audible.com.<br/><br/>This is the latest V. I. Warshawski mystery and we’ve waited a long time to visit her again.  V. I. is involved in another Chicago scandal.  She is asked to find someo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75819977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I had to have each new V. I. Warshawski novel as it came out. However, after about four of them, I got tired of her perpetual bad humor and inability to get close to anyone. The atmosphere along such lines of the works just became too oppressive to me, so I bowed out of reading the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75672261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good Paretsky is miles ahead of most mystery writers, and this book is pretty good.<br/><br/>While not having the depth and detail of her best (Blacklist) this is a similar story of past crimes influencing current events. What does a civil rights worker killed at a 1966 march of Dr. King in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74672772">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Paretsky is one of a handful of writers I'd have to rank as the best living authors of detective fiction.  I don't know that it's still meaningful to refer to her work as 'hard boiled' any more, but both Paretsky and her detective, VI Warshawski have evolved.  <br/><br/>I always hate it when someo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73606774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two missing persons - one that lawyer and private investigator V. I. Warshawski is hired to find, the other someone that she must find. Those who want to learn more about the city of Chicago, past and present, will certainly get a lot from reading Hardball.<br/><br/>Synopsis: V. I. Warshawski, law...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72615274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was an &quot;Advance Readers Copy.&quot;  I picked it up because in the past I really enjoyed the writing of this author.  The two positive spots in the book were good base story and great history facts.  I did find the pace of the story moved along like a snail.  This author used to write...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68618690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has got to be one of the slowest reading books that I've read in a long time. I love Vic, have for years. But this whole thing is just plodding along for me. I'm not even sure I'll finish it. I'm so bored trying to read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A first reads win!<br/><br/>Wow, what an intense, refreshing mystery.  So many of the mysteries/suspense I read seem to be constant action and little development of plot.  This one had both.  Kind of reminded me of the movies &quot;The Pelican Brief&quot; or &quot;The Fugitive&quot; rather than th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70915208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I discovered Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski series, I read about six of them in a row. Big mistake. A nice hit of Vic every two or three years is just about right. Otherwise, her hair-trigger judgments and downright boneheaded taste for doing stupidly dangerous things makes you wonder why she doesn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78540171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hardball by Sara Paretsky is a V. I. Warshawski detective novel par excellence. Vic Warshawski, P.I., on her home turf, always means a Chicago story, and this one is special. Trying to do a good deed, Vic reluctantly agrees to try to solve the 40-years-cold case of a missing African American man, fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75992716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of this novel, &quot;Hardball,&quot; pinpoints the metaphor at the center of this suspense tale—a story that spotlights civil rights, baseball, politics, and police corruption.<br/><br/>When V. I. Warshawski inadvertently saves a homeless man's life, she meets a woman of the clergy, wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72341969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book mostly because it was written about the part of Chicago in which Sara and I both grew up -- the south side.  It helped to be really familiar with the area, the times during which the action takes place, and also to be able to catch some of Sara's &quot;inside jokes.&quot;  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75416992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I normally like this series, but I have to admit this is my least favorite so far.  There is a lot of confusion on the time line and, frankly, the book needs a good editor to cut out repetition.<br/><br/>HARDBALL was just all over the place, which isn't typical of the series.  I guess part of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73082372">more...</a>]]></body>
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