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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Rating</strong> A-<br/><br/><strong>Review</strong><br/><br/>Characters: In ORDINARY LOVE, Smiley got a little child-happy (five children) and I had a hard time sorting them out and keeping them straight in my head--two are never even in the story, they're merely referenced by other family members. I say, since this is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56848139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Go now and get this little book of novellas from Jane Smiley.  It's only two stories and they just both knocked my teeth out (in a good way).  Smiley's writing style is deceptively simple and straightforward and you start thinking, oh, okay, I know where this is going, it's all about family and loss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65158126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Smiley is an excellent writer and a compassionate observer of all of us humans, especially those with quirks, flaws, a tendencies to stumble.  I read these novellas on a long plane flight and found them completely absorbing and unpredictable -- yet sometimes I felt as if there were no there there.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48165124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderfully written as usual; really, really sad.  So much experience of loss and damage, without a lot of hope, especially in Good Will, which was heartbreaking.  Ordinary Love reminded me very much of Ten Days in the Hills in the rather structureless meandering of the non-plot.<br/><br/>Jane Smi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53279600">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never read Jane Smiley before...this is a book of two novellas.  I favor the first one, but loved them both.  Great summer read. Jane Smiley's style eminds me of the way Ann Tyler writes, especially about families.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like it a whole lotttt, i think i'm gonan give it to my mom for xmas.  i never did read all of it whenever we were assigned to]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ordinary Love is a three star-er; Good Will is a five star plus. Smiley, when she's at her best, blows me away.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the first novella from this book but not the second.  The first, at least, was very good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane Smiley does a great job of taking &quot;ordinary&quot; people and making you care about them. Big, crazy flaws and all :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two novellas that are, I admit, kind of depressing, but so well done! I'm not sure I'd ever read a novella before these. I was a little wary of them, because I don't typically like short stories either....I like to get in and get to know a character and form a relationship--whatever it is that happe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24267909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved both novellas, but Good Will is especially good. I don't have a copy in front of me, and it was years ago that I read it, but I can still remember the characters and the absolute perfect pitch Smiley brings to evoking both the family and their off-the-grid existance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed these two novellas.  The first was good, the second was remarkable.  Good Will was about a rural family who lived on a farm without any modern day posessions.  It was fascinating.  AGain, I love Jane SMiley and she didn't disappoint here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read only the second novella GOOD WILL.<br/>A quiet read; ominous, stern tone.  Prose is unjeweled; wonderful dialog sections; gets me thinking about how there is no template to living the good life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I could rate these two novellas separately, Ordinary Love would have about 2 stars and Good Will 3.5-4.  <br/><br/>Ordinary Love has this very aware of itself, writerly quality that is grating.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Smiley captures personal drama, no matter what stylistic mask she's chosen for a given book. Women characters are exceptionally well depicted in both these novellas.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Masterful storyteller of complex family dynamics.  I haven't read her novels since the Pulitzer Prize winning &quot;A Thousand Acres,&quot; and I'll be coming back for more soon.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mom recommended I read this.  I love the way she writes, but holy cow, DEPRESSING.  Two stories in this, Good Will really made my heart ache.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 11:44:08 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up from my libray. I had always wanted to read something by Jane Smiley and I thought 2 novellas was a good choice.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the second novella was a lot like one of Jane Hamilton novels and I am pretty sure Smiley came first.. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy Jane Smiley's writing and these novellas met the bar of my high expectations.]]></body>
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