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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great Book Club starter book!  It really got us going and shows how people from different backgrounds can really enjoy reading the same books!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is such a good book - I would recommend it to all of my friends, especially my women friends. It is sort of like a &quot;chick flick&quot; but in a book, and better. <br/><br/>It is simply written, I can't say that it's literary genius or anything, the writing is good - it's the perfect summe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75391236">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I usually don't read chick lit. but the title piqued my interest. I decided to give it a try and I'm glad I did. It was a wonderful book!! <br/>Five women who are neighbors meet in a snowball fight and decide to start a bookclub. The book tells their stories by years not chapters. The beginning sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54479709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was very surprised by this book. I thought, due to it's title, that it would be chick lit and I never imagined it would cover some of the serious topics it did, including Faith's childhood, her son being gay, Grants lover getting AIDS, Slip getting cancer and her brother going to Vietnam and retur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76176419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT!<br/><br/>Did she really use the word &quot;beatific&quot; twice in this book?? Why?!<br/><br/>Finished--not as bad as some people said. I really did enjoy most of it. The predictable cliches aside.<br/><br/>Overall not as many cliched scenes as I was afraid there'd be. The chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66432679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I totally, totally LOVED this book!!!  Lorna Landvik will be one author I'll be out looking for again.<br/><br/>From cover:<br/><br/>&quot;The women of Freesia Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee, delicious desserts, and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue that ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50102094">more...</a>]]></body>
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