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    <body><![CDATA[i agree with someone else: this is one of my favorite frakkin' books.  it's lovely.  it's hot.  it's dirty.  it makes you cry.  it makes you want to throw it in the fire, and then retrieve it and kiss it and apologize profusely.<br/><br/>in other words, it's kind of like your last boyfriend, only ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/755323">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Why was this perfection never put to film? This story would have been perfect for the old Masterpiece Theatre series on PBS, I can't believe it was never done. I'd give this one ten stars if I could. While it's not quite <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_With_The_Wind" title="Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell">Gone with the Wind</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10222.The_Far_Pavilions" title="The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye">The Far Pavilions</a>, it's pretty darn close. This is not an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36492903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After some grappling and soul-searching, I have finally decided not to finish this book.  As Karen said in her review, there's nothing wrong with indulging in a trashy novel occasionally, but 750 pages is a big investment for trash.<br/><br/>This book reminded me of some of the Philippa Gregory bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22523944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was both very good and very disappointing at the same time.  I couldn't put it down, but neither did it give me happy, cheerful feelings.<br/>This is the story of the maturing of a young girl, Barbara, in 18th century England.  She has a passionate loving nature and though of the upper class, d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33701740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this first 20 years ago (yes, I am that old).  And I remembered it so fondly because I was in France at the time and this was one of the few novels in English that I read while I was there.  It was such a relaxing way to spend a day at the beach, doubly so because all the rest of the time I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5855230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39408706">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a surprisingly absorbing read. I'm still a bit stressed, so I've been binging on historical fiction (I even ordered my first Heyer novels). <br/><br/>Koen's novel is sprightly told and competently researched. It mixes historical figures into the narrative fairly well (though they aren't n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39408706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone called this a &quot;bodice ripper&quot; in another review.  Hm -- I think that person needs to read an actual bodice ripper and then think again.  I read this on my honeymoon in 1995.  It was a book I picked up by chance (I remembered the huge advance Koen got) and I am vey glad I did.  It's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4120887">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ultimately a very sad book chronicling the life of Barbara Aderly of the Tamworth family in early 18th century Britain.  Her family is destitute thanks to her parent's misuse of money and her father's traitorous activities.  Still, Barbara is a young, enthusiastic girl of 15 at the start of the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3785180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this book is absolutely wonderful. The characters- even the minor ones!- are so engaging and well thought out that you find yourself caring for everyone equally, from the main character Barbara, to her cousin Tony, and all the way down to the little maid Therese. And the author doe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6809596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever come across one of those books in which the main protagonist starts out being beautiful, brave, headstrong, intelligent...in short, all that is admirable in a person...and then, about 50 pages in, said protagonist becomes the brattiest, whiniest, dumbest little kid you've had the misfo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28567106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up in the historical fiction section thinking this would be a great find. It was more of a complex one. Which is good, don't get me wrong but this novel was hard to get through. Koen does an excellent job of not giving the reader what they want (a problem I often have with the wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41690404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the most part, Through a Glass Darkly was exactly what I expected it to be. The novel follows the Duke of Tamworth’s family, specifically Barbara Alderley, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Diane and Kit Alderley who has spent her entire life living with her grandmother Alice – more commonly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43269713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This afternoon I finished listening to an audio version of this book, narrated by Rosalyn Landor. The novel was tragic in its own way, but deeply enthralling. It revolves around the character of Barbara Alderley, a 15-year-old headstrong, beautiful noblewoman whose love for a man 27 years her senior...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67725069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Richly Detailed, Slightly Melodramatic...and Spicy <br/>I'm rounding up from 3.5 stars <br/><br/>I found 'Through a Glass Darkly' to be an engaging well paced story with likeable characters woven into a rich fabric of English traditions, mores, fashion and sexual intrigues. <br/><br/>I would ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58394225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Through a Glass Darkly is the story of Barbara Alderley. At the opening of the novel, she is a mischevious 15 year old girl, living at the home of her grandmother, the Duchess of Tamworth. Young Barbara has a penchant towards eavesdropping and so we are introduced to a scene of family discord betwee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56048659">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the worst book I've ever read, but certainly a waste of my time.  This book should be in the I'm-trying-to-be-literature-but-I'm-just-a-glorified-Harlequin-Romance-Novel section of the book store.  Not that there's anything wrong with indulging in a trashy novel on occasion, but at least those a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7213422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I used to be the type of person who pushed through a book once begun.  Nowadays I find myself with too much to read and too little time.  I gave this book a week and  a half and in that time I got to page 44, which is horrific really.  I gage a book on whether I want to drop out of my life to read i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55661316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, and I loved the historical aspect of it. However, the story was a bit long-winded and meandering.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is difficult to rate. It was a disapointment on so many levels and I kept telling myself to just quit reading it, but I could not stop myself from wanting to know what was going to happen. A historical fiction set in the early 1700's in England and Paris, it is the account of a young girl f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52082515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit I was disappointed, especially considering how much I enjoyed her other book. This book could have easily been 200-300 pages shorter and told the same tale a little faster; life is hard, has little rewards and everyone dies in the end.]]></body>
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