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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Original&quot; and &quot;ambitious&quot; can mean almost anything in a review, depending on context. Original ideas may be ill-advised, and an ambitious premise can be ineptly executed. But when I call Margaret Hawkins's debut novel, A YEAR OF CATS AND DOGS, original and ambitious, it is the h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66534691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I had absolutely no expectations when A Year of Cats and Dogs arrived on my doorstep, I'm not sure whether that was a good thing or not. <br/>I'll readily admit that as I chugged through the first few chapters I found myself disliking Maryanne. I found her sad-sack personality a bit off-putting - ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76686409">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not the typcial type of book I usually read and I wasn't sure I would really like it.  Turns out that I truly enjoyed reading this book!  Some books I read I can't remember the title 2 days after I've finished it, but I've found this book to provoke reflection.  The main character decides to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79544864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I frankly don't know how I feel about this book, and I am not sure how widely distributed it will be. It is about a woman in midlife crisis who decides to give up the life she has known. Her lover has left her, she quits her mundane job, and simply lets life happen to her. She soon learns to communi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62256496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book was like taking a roller coaster ride with a woman coming to terms with herself. Maryanne has come to a place in her life where she steps back to take a look at her life when her partner leaves.  She seemed at some points to quit life entirely and at others to seize it with both ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67540016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This quiet, meditative novel follows Maryanne as she struggles to come to grips with the loss of her boyfriend and job, her father's illness, a new relationship, and the fact that she finds she can mentally communicate with dogs and cats. It sounds cheesy, but it really really works.<br/>This is th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67491642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An endearing, honest novel. Hawkins has an eye for detail and a sense for transforming the seemingly inconsequential into greater spiritual truths, then turning them back again. <br/><br/>An almost-50 woman gives up her job writing verse for a memento factory with no clear plan as to why or what's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67583654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a typical midlife crisis novel that throws in an interesting twist when the narrator becomes a &quot;pet whisperer&quot; of sorts. Animal-lovers will enjoy this book, for sure.  For others, there is enough about life, death, and family to keep readers satisfied.  I didn't really get the whol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76978656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an odd but strangely endearing book about a middle-aged woman remaking her life.  Animals and issues of death predominate, and somehow she comes through all that to a pleasant and happy ending.  The characters are quirky but believable, and I wanted to keep reading.  The interspersed recipes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64285944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won this book through Good Reads- I don't know if I would have read it if I had just seen it on a shelf somewhere. But I'm glad I read it!<br/><br/>The story itself was well written and the main character was likeable. The chapters of the book are very short (like 2 to 3 pages tops for most) whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67768926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really, really enjoyed this book.  I read it over the course of an afternoon.  It is a quick and easy read, yet it really moved me with its details of relationships between people and their animals.  It is not sappy (think Marley and Me), but tells it like it is, which to me is so much more meanin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67488671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got this book as a goodreads giveaway -- it was sweet, engaging, and odd. despite some difficulty suspending my disbelief and getting into the strange perspective of the main character, i found myself caring about the people, animals, and narrative...  after awhile, the bizarre experiences of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67474932">more...</a>]]></body>
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