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  <title><![CDATA[The Christmas Cookie Club: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>A riveting and highly commercial debut novel about&#160;the rich and complicated friendships between twelve women who meet for a cookie exchange.&#160;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">10</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ann Pearlman]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is possibly the perfect book club book.<br/>Every year, on the first Monday in December twelve women get together to share cookies, recipes and stories. The past year has been very eventful for many of the members. Some express joy, others sadness, and one the terrible loss of a son. They list...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73008629">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA['The Christmas Cookie Club' by Ann Pearlman is a book I liked, but found lacking in some areas. <br/><br/>The parts I really enjoyed: <br/>* Love the great recipes that head each chapter! I plan to make quite a few batches this holiday season. <br/>* Marnie, the main character and head cookie bi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76756569">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Prologue)....&quot;I AM THE HEAD COOKIE bitch and this is my party. The Christmas Cookie Club is always on the first Monday of December. Mark it on your calendar. Twelve of us gather, and thirteen dozen cookies wrapped in packages. Home-made, of course.  We bring a dish to pass around and a bottle ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76259515">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As Marnie gets ready to host the annual Christmas Cookie Club, she talks on the phone with her daughter, who is awaiting the results of tests done to determine the health of her unborn baby. She should learn the results of the tests by the evenings end.Marnie is hosting the cookie party as she has f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76170077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The opening line of this book is pretty good, I have to admit:<br/><br/>I am the head cookie bitch and this is my party.<br/><br/>And the premise for the book is also not bad.  Every year a group of twelve diverse women gather to exchange cookies that they bake along with the latest happenings i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75665234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I saw this book at Borders it immediately caught my eye and I was so excited when April said she had an extra copy I could read.  I don't know if it was raging hormones but the beginning of the book actually had me in tears as I read about Marnie's daughter, Sky, and her risky pregnancy and pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76348013">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this was a cute concept for a novel: a group of 12 women get together every Christmas holiday and exchange cookies. However, I had major problems with the execution. First, I didn't realize that the characters were all 20+ years older than me--I really couldn't relate to them. Second, it w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77479942">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[On the first Monday in December every year twelve women get together for their annual &quot;cookie club&quot; party. The book is narrated by Marnie, the 'head cookie b*tch'. Each chapter begins with a recipe of a particular cookie club member, with the chapter focusing on that person: how they came ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74136068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The annual Christmas Cookie Club occurs each first Monday in December when 12 &quot;cookie bitches&quot; armed with dozens of cookies (one for each member &amp; one for charity) renew their bonds of friendship, cookie creations &amp; wine.  It's like therapy for the members as they deal with life issues, &amp; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74321000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77452092">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh!  I've been seeing all the new Christmas fiction coming out this time of year, and I was hoping for a light Christmas story to get me in the holiday spirit.  This is not that book.  Think cancer, dead babies, horrific accidents, family deaths, and domestic abuse.  Each chapter starts with a reci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77452092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73030404">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marnie is the organizer of The Christmas Cookie Club -  a group of twelve women who gather once a year to ring in the holiday season and exchange cookies.  Everyone brings thirteen dozen cookies – a dozen for each of them and a dozen for a charity.  The club has been meeting for sixteen years and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73030404">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Firmly in the chick-lit category.  A light, but not always cheerful read for the holidays.  Upgraded from 2 stars to 3 because I like the layout of the book.  Recipes, and ingredient information (history etc.) are interwoven with the chapters of the story in such a way that the recipes appear as the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75980627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hate books that are about horrible people.  This book could have been so uplifting, but everyone in it is either having an affair, thinking of having an affair, or their spouse is having an affair.  Disgusting!  It does come with recipes that I would like to try, though.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover is misleading.. it isn't your typical Christmas novel.  The first sentence gives you a good idea of what it's like:<br/>   <br/>          &quot;I'm the head cookie bitch, and this is my party!&quot;<br/><br/>includes Christmas Cookie recipes.]]></body>
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    <review id="78213735">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So many characters and stories to try and keep straight made it a little confusing and clunky. On the other hand, I REALLY want to start my own Christmas Cookie Club like this one!]]></body>
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    <review id="77464751">
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't even finish it.  Would have given it 0 stars if, 1) it was an option, and 2) it didn't have the good christmas cookie recipes in it.  Some of which are in the oven right now.]]></body>
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    <review id="65769946">
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    <body><![CDATA[On the first Monday in December, twelve friends gather for a party armed with 13 dozen beautifully packaged cookies, their recipe, and a year's worth of life to share.  Primed with great food and a tipple of three of wine they celebrate with laughter, tears, helpful advice and healing.  Pearlman's d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65769946">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good holiday book. A story of 12 women and their friendship &amp; lives. I especially liked the format. Each chapter started with a cookie recipe, the next section of the story, and ended with the history of an ingredient.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The back of the book jacket says &quot;The most important ingredient is love.&quot; and the author brought that home again and again.  I particularly enjoyed the ingredient vignettes between the chapters and learned quite a bit about those items that I didn't know.  The personalities of each cookie ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72118459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just got this book from the library and started reading today.]]></body>
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