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  <title><![CDATA[The Diary]]></title>
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  <default_description>When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother&#8217;s in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth&#8217;s life was not their father. This is the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by Elizabeth so long ago. Their mother can&#8217;t give them the answers: After a massive stroke, she lies mute and near death in a nursing home. Only the pages of her diary can provide clues to what really happened.&lt;P&gt;In a richly detailed journey into the past, we see Elizabeth lose her heart to one man while remaining devoted to another. Finally, she must choose between the stable, loyal Bob...and the electrifying and unpredictable A.J., who spent time in juvenile detention as a teen. When a suspicious fire in the neighborhood is linked to A.J., Elizabeth is faced with another dilemma: She&#8217;s the only one who can clear A.J.&#8217;s name, but to do so would ruin her reputation. Surprisingly, it&#8217;s Bob who comes to the rescue, forcing Elizabeth to make perhaps the most painful decision of her life....&lt;P&gt;&lt;I&gt;The Diary&lt;/I&gt; is a love story. It&#8217;s also the story of the unshakable bond between a mother and her daughters.&lt;/DIV&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Eileen Goudge]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in one day. It was a short and simple read but pleasurable. It is not a &quot;buxom beauty ravished by Fabio&quot; type love story either, but a clean, sweet telling of a romantic tale that takes place in the 1950s. The book opens with Emily and Sarah going thru their mother's things as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71947567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sisters, Emily and Sarah were sorting through old boxes. They were cleaning things up as their mother isn’t doing very well and doesn’t have much time to live. In one of the boxes, Emily comes upon an old diary. The diary belongs to their mother. Emily and Sarah start reading it; not knowing tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69765651">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has my heart already.  I have enjoyed it from the start.  It is about two girls whose mother is in a nursing home and they are selling the house.  They are going through the mother's items in the attic when they find a diary.  Common enough plot, I know, but it always gets me.  The diary c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57556144">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two daughters, Sarah and Emily, are packing up their family home. Their father died the year before, and their mother, Elizabeth, is in an extended care facility following a stroke.  Her death seems eminent.<br/><br/>Imagine their surprise, then, to find an old diary.  They are somewhat reluctant ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53327628">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When the two grown daughters of Elizabeth Marshall discover an old diary of their mother’s in her attic, it comes as a shock to learn that the true love of Elizabeth’s life was not their father. This is the mystery the two daughters must unravel as they stay up late reading the words penned by E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64260536">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Their mother is in a nursing home, dying.  The daughters are at her house, trying to sort through and accept her imminent death.  Emily finds an old diary in the attic, one her mother kept before marrying their father.  As she reads the first few pages, she learns her mother's true love was not her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64981480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me of 'The Wednesday Letters' and 'The Notebook.' When I finished it made me realize how important it is that we let our children know who we are, even if we can't face it when we are still walking on the earth.<br/>This is PG-13 because there is a love scene...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55096202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two daughters discover and read their mom's diary.  The mom is ill but she's not dead . . . so this invasion of privacy kind of bothered me.  Still, the diary's story (of the mother's romantic past) was interesting and kept me reading.  Good characterizations, descriptions, and drama.  My only probl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54434643">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a quick enjoyable read with a surprise ending. Two grown sisters find their mother's diary in the attic while cleaning the house before it is sold. They are stunned to learn that their father was not the only man in their mother's life back in the 1950's. The author subtly shows us that peop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69084830">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give 4.5 starts if I could but since I can't I'll go with 5 for the simple, sweet, and yet aching love story. It's the story of perfect love vs true love. The author has you guessing til the end as to what happens to Elizabeth and AJ and when I found out how it all played out my heart broke in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59602522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77000054">
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this story so much.  A year after their elderly father's death, Emily and Sarah's mother, Elizabeth, is in a nursing home and does not have much time to live.  As her daughters clean out her house, they discover a diary that Elizabeth kept the year she married their father.  The daughers are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77000054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58716099">
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read in Playaway (audio) form.  Well performed.  I knew nothing of Eileen Goudge before reading this, but she's written a million books, it seems.  I'll try to write more later, but this was a pleasant, intriguing novel that gets us at the end.  Entertaining, but somewhat of a lightweight, so while ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58716099">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, the rave reviews for this book have me stumped. I thought that it was awful. Barely 200 pages long, I thought that it was 200 pages too long. Dull, simplistic, boring and written like a young adult novel. I was never drawn into the story and the characters never came alive for me. Eileen Goudge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56599885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy, sweet read.  Who among us haven't imagined finding a treasure in the attic.  In this story two grown sisters find their mother's diary when cleaning out their childhood home. Through the diary's pages they learn more about their parent's lives and loves then they could imagine.  This story was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71998484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very enjoyable &quot;escape book&quot; - two grown sisters discover their mother's diary from her youth as they are going through her things in preparation for her imminent death. They discover that the love of her life was not their father. Their mother is mute and unable to explain, so they stay u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69647300">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[Read this book about two sisters finding their mother's diary as she is dying, after finding my mother's journals the week before she died this spring. Touching and poignant and true for me. The sister's conversations about the diary reminded me of how my sister's and I talk about what we learned ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71813266">more...</a>]]></body>
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