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  <title><![CDATA[A Gown of Spanish Lace (The Janette Oke Collection)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Janette Oke]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this better than the other two &quot;Women of the West&quot; books I've read. This book reminded me of two other books -- &quot;The Long Winter&quot; (I think that's the right one), where Laura Ingalls is a young schoolteacher, and &quot;The Wedding Dress&quot;, where an orphan's only link t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42013506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6703410">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>   I like the other books by Janette Oke more then this one. I thought in was a little stupid. But that doesn't mean you wouldn't like it.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="43456894">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 18 08:56:04 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 18 09:04:03 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the five Janette Oke books I have read in recent months, A Gown of Spanish Lace, is my least favorite.  The first sixteen chapters were slow developing.  Then the last eight chapters were more intriguing to read.  I thought Janette Oke did an outstanding portrayal throughout the book of the solac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43456894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46161977">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rishi]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 11:59:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 12 12:01:50 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the second half of this book best. It was somewhat of a change as Oke did not cover every year of this character's life. I did enjoy her use of explicatives. There were none, just mention of them.<br/><br/>Mike and I read this book aloud in one day when church was cancelled.]]></body>
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    <review id="44777745">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 29 13:15:03 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 18:25:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far, so good. I like these old fashioned westerns with a hint of romance. It was pretty good. It got better as it went, and the suspense built. It ended so abruptly though! I kept thinking, this is it? But I liked it. ]]></body>
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    <review id="72138199">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 22 12:49:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 22 12:50:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book it is definitely a adventure book at times in the book but other times it will be kinda like the rest of Janette Oke books]]></body>
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    <review id="66466832">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 06 15:34:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 16:18:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastic book. There is more edge and twist to it than the usual Janette Oke novel and still is it great and safe and fun.]]></body>
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    <review id="40326185">
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admitt that this was probobly one of my favorite books by Jannete Oke. It had many twists and turns I never expected.]]></body>
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    <review id="55174284">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed May 06 14:08:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu May 07 12:24:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this one was AMAZING!!!!!! I think this and &quot;Too Long a Stranger&quot; are my favorite books that i've read by her so far...]]></body>
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    <review id="43752111">
    <user id="1934754">
    <name><![CDATA[Carlotta]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of all of her books this is one of my favorite....sweet like all of her books, but quite a different twist.]]></body>
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    <review id="60656541">
    <user id="2438056">
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 22 11:42:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 22 11:42:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/> I was disappointed by this book, not her best work.  It was not very interesting, a slow plot.]]></body>
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    <review id="68710635">
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 24 12:11:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a THRILLING suspenseful western. iv read and re-read it about 7 times :) ]]></body>
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    <review id="54498074">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 30 12:43:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aww. I absolutly loved this book! I'm pretty sure that I cried happy tears at the end.]]></body>
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    <review id="53088257">
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 17 21:01:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[its so good! i couldnt stop reading it! now im going to read janette okes other books!]]></body>
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    <review id="45152014">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christen]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very good one also. Very sad yet touching.]]></body>
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    <review id="39874179">
    <user id="1794810">
    <name><![CDATA[Nikole]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good book. It's still in my library.]]></body>
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    <review id="69267381">
    <user id="1031385">
    <name><![CDATA[Danielle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[it was an enchanting book!]]></body>
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    <review id="39066469">
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    <name><![CDATA[Miss]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it okay.]]></body>
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    <review id="58591572">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melissa T]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice read!  I like the western ones, too.  Thanks, Lia!  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't believe, it when they thought that they were brother and sister. I think it would be cool to find out the one of my friends mother and my mother were such good friends and then to die (I wouldn't like my mother to die)and us to be moved so far apart and the insedentaly meet again, later o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21335487">more...</a>]]></body>
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