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    <body><![CDATA[A perfect book for the first day of a new year. This year my husband and I will both turn fifty and our youngest child will leave home for college. I have a lot in common with Katz.<br/><br/>My favorite quote:<br/><br/>&quot;I am not nearly as afraid of dying as I am of the hinges inside my mind...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64986860">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard this author interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR.  Back then it was called 'Running to the Mountain: A Journey of Faith &amp; Change'...... seems that 'midlife adventure' turns more heads than an honest statement of what it was - A Journey of Faith &amp; Change.<br/><br/>I found it to be hone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53969734">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jon Katz's Running to the Mountain is the book that got him really talking about dogs. The autobiographical piece explains his impulsive purchase of a cabin in upstate New York, his attempts at establishing a new literary career, and his quest for spirituality. I read the book to meet his Labrador r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6712819">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fellow about to turn 50 buys rundown cabin in upstate NY to get away from Jersey (hey!) and its attendant modernities. Also, of course, to write. Brings along lots of books by the ruminative Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Day-to-day detail and reflection about finding water and driving the minivan to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78667511">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great essays on personal journey to find oneself from a male perspective.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Katz is my favorite dog book author. The predates his focus on dogs. Running to the Mountain began as a book on Thomas Merton and evolved into an analysis of the process of change and individual's dreams in Katz' life. The timing of me pulling this off the shelf in the midst of my opportunity for ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49647551">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sorry, didn't finish.  Couldn't stay interested.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You dont have to be Chris McCandless (wasted away and dying in the depths of Alaska) to achieve spiritual bliss. You CAN achieve balance in your life.  (with all due respect to Chris McCandless)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! For anyone who has that secret cabin they dream of hidden somewhere in their heads - this is a perfect read to renew the spirit. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very inspirational.  Realize after reading this book that changes can be made at any time in your life..follow your heart, your instincts and take chances.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about aging and finding oneself in the process. Nice book to read, light but thoughtful.]]></body>
    
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