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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this book and enjoyed it. L. Fraser did a great job telling a love affair story and keeping it tasteful, not loosing the story to the love affair alone. The story is told through the eyes of the female character and it is about the emotional healing and the blossoming of two human be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49505753">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. It's a travel memoir written by a woman whose husband leaves her after only one year of marriage. Seeking to mend her broken heart she takes off for Italy, where she meets a married Frenchman. They have a casual affair over the next couple years that takes her to Milan, Morocco, L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74495020">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[100% a light, quick, easy read - in fact, I knocked it out over Thanksgiving weekend while my parents were visiting.  <br/><br/>And it's exactly what the back cover describes - &quot;When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38994724">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is everything I love about Italy, traveling, european men, and even California. I immediately felt like I was in each and every location.<br/><br/>This book provides a great mini-vacation from the comfort of your living room. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book in a home where Kurt and I stayed in Hawaii.  The author, Laura Fraser is a travel writer, and I believe this was her first book.  It is actually an auto-biography, written like a novel.  Laura Fraser is a great author, and I wish there was another book to read.  <br/><br/>Ms. Fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74140944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm obsessed with all things Italian. I always said I left my heart there after my summer in Italia. My Dolce Vita. This book is great! What I learned from this book is you can have a great escape after a great loss in your life... that you can find love again in the impossible. She is just so cute ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28995338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was hard to read this story told in third person- but after some reading, I was able to enjoy the rich texture of the places she (I) visited...<br/><br/>&quot;Different people give you different things you need. It's asking too much to have one relationship be everything. It's a setup for disap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75252516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminds me of many current books eg Eat, Pray and Love, where heart-sick women find food and love in idealistic Italy!  Sounds a bit contrived but the book is a delightful summer fanatasy, both travelgue and menoir.  No doubt they never went to southern Italy, the settling for Women of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63470057">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning was ok... then later it just remained the same.  There wasn't anything exciting.  I mean, it was exciting for her and perhaps it was exciting in the beginning just like anything new.  Ultimately it was like reading someone's travel journal and even that can get a little boring.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, what I did was an intensive kind of skimming of this book, I'll confess!  But I wanted to recommend it to everyone.  It's a memoir of a woman who gets a divorce and then meets this professor [in ISCHIA!!!].  He is married for like the next two years they meet up on vacations and have sex and tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22412193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[eat, pray, love without the pray and written in the third person, strange.  Nonetheless a worth reading when you're in a complete funk and want nothing to do with literature or reality (although its a true story).  It's a perfect Lifetime Network Movie book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book by accident at Stellas one day while on the waiting list at DPL for Eclipse. I loved it! It ia quite unusual with regards tot he tense it is written. But the book is light and interesting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books ever! It is the only book I've read multiple times. I read it whenever I want to feel good about my body and add a little spice to my sex appeal.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Met Laura in San Miguel de Allende. Very interesting woman and traveler, and it turns out a friend of a friend (small world). Laura's quite a reader and I'll be checking out her reading list soon.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1607230 I had to drag myself through most of this book - the main reason was the endless You's. I found it incredibly irritating to have You in almost every sentence.<br/>I also failed to find much interest in the affairs of a woman who knowingly - especially after being cheated on - chose to have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55420037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy and fun read.   Made my desire to visit Italy even more!]]></body>
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