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  <title><![CDATA[Sushi for Beginners: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;p&gt;Lisa Edwards&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This Prada-wearing magazine editor thinks her life is over when her &quot;fabulous&quot; new job turns out to be a deportation to Dublin to launch Colleen magazine. The only saving grace is that her friends aren't there to witness her downward spiral. Might her new boss, the disheveled and moody Jack Devine, save her from a fate worse than hell?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ashling Kennedy&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ashling, Colleen's assistant editor, is an award-winning worrier, increasingly aware that something fundamental is missing from her life -- apart from a boyfriend and a waistline.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Clodagh &quot;Princess&quot; Kelly&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ashling's best friend, Clodagh, lives the domestic dream in a suburban castle. So why, lately, has she had the recurring urge to kiss a frog -- or sleep with a frog, if truth be told? As these three women search for love, success, and happiness, they will discover that if you let things simmer under the surface for too long, sooner or later they'll boil over.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Discover the Keyes to a Great Read!&lt;/p&gt;</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Think about an ambitious woman who expects a promotion to became an important magazine editor in New York and ends up in a little pennyless women's magazine editorial board in Ireland instead. <br/><br/>She could either resign indignant or make &quot;Colleen&quot; the most prestigious magazine in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16757261">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For Ashling Kennedy, the new job she lands at start-up Irish fashion magazine Colleen is a dream come true. For Lisa Edwards, a high-maintenance London editor expecting a promotion to New York, her appointment as editor-in-chief of Colleen is a slap in the face, the only consolation being her rumple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5911427">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally finished this book. I had started Sushi for Beginners only a few days before it was due back to the library and never really got time to read much... now having finished it, I can say it was an interesting read. I am not sure why I was compelled to read and keep reading, but I was. It was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16506635">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this charming and engaging &quot;chick lit&quot; novel, the author takes three unique women, each with her own demons and desires and throws them together. The characters are captivating and complex; Lisa, the bitchy, stunning, Prada-wearing magazine editor; Ashling, the plain-jane, mousy, overly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6400010">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite enjoyed this one. I have liked some of Marian Keyes books, and not others, so I am always hesitant when I start her books, but, I liked this one.<br/>It follows the lives of three women and the parallels in their lives. One is the editor of a new magazine and the bitch from hell. One is marri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4724374">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the VULGAR, VULGAR, VULGARness of this book, I thought maybe I might enjoy the story????  Once I realized that all my energy was being zapped by this book and it's VULGARITY, I turned to the end of the book and read the last chapter to find out what happened so I could say goodbye to &quot;S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10748176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve been screaming for a while for a good chick-lit book with strong, independent female characters and when I finally find one, I get bored halfway through. The book was good, but I had a hard time holding my interest in it. It follows the lives of three completely different, yet connected women...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73203838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, yet an other Keyes I can say again. Keyes is entertaining most of the time, but sometimes she annoys me.<br/><br/>As for &quot;Sushi...&quot; Its different from the other Keyes Ive read. This time there is three main characters instead one. They are:<br/><br/>Lisa, magazine editor from Lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42657213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Started reading Marian Keyes when I returned from Ireland in the summer of 2004. I bought a book of short stories from Irish writers, and Marian Keyes was one of them. I went to see which writers we had at our library, and I found Marian Keyes had several. I tried to read them in order and ended up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3086542">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what to say about this book.[return]I loved the previous Marian Keyes book I read, The Other Side of The Story, I had to laugh out loud several times during that one. But in this one I only managed to smile a few times. Maybe it was the main characters, who weren't that interesting. I a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42447359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trashy...Originally I was drawn by the reference to sushi...Describes the misadventures at a woman's magazine in Ireland called &quot;Colleen&quot;, predominantly through the eyes of a &quot;The Devil Wears Prada&quot;-type cold-hearted editor-in-chief...her cutthroat attempts to get ahead in life, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64092321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise that I'm a big fan of Marian Keyes, given how many of her books grace my &quot;read&quot; shelf. This Charming Man rates as my favorite of her books, but Sushi for Beginners comes in a close second.<br/><br/>I picked up a tattered paperback copy of this book at a libr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48183387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE Marian Keyes. The charming eccentricities of her characters make them oddly identifiable. I dare you to try to read her books and not laugh out loud. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book uncovers our daily life sorty when we tusrt our friends but they acutually r continously cheating on us. it actually happens but we are not considerate and try to keep our temprament moderate but in this novel clodagh is not forgiven and her friend leaves her. everybody is very much sincer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47379400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Now this I really liked. Lisa, a magazine editor, gets sent to Dublin to start a new magazine. She’s hard, brittle, not really likeable but does soften some by the end of the book. She’s married to a black man, Oliver, a fashion photographer. Ashling is her assistant who is the real heroine of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47064085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let's see. Take Bridget Jones, mix with The Devil Wears Prada, add some Irish details and remove about 50% of the interesting plot details and you have this book. I previously had read another book of Keyes' that I enjoyed a lot but I found this one a bit of a slog to get through. I admire her portr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41234083">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Brit chick lit lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 30 11:06:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 11:20:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One nice thing about Marian Keyes' books is that all of her characters feel like real people that you might meet on the street.  And the consequences for their actions are also &quot;real&quot;.  In this novel, three women are looking for love and success.  First there is the super-fashionista, Lisa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28760176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="801462">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ali]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Puyallup, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 19 17:00:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 14 21:18:39 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[May 12, 2007 I won't say I hate it but I can't finish it. And that says a lot. The only other book I can remember not finishing is The Secret Garden. And I blame that on bad timing; I was 8 years old carrying around that enormous book mainly because the cover was pretty. Well, Sushi For Beginners do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/801462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42129527">
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    <name><![CDATA[Erin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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    <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 06 13:45:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 06 13:47:04 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got through this book. Getting into it was a bit of a struggle..... some of it I enjoyed, some was just &quot;okay&quot;, and parts of it felt predictable, &amp; some forced (specifically the end where it seemed semi-hurried to draw it all to a close).<br/><br/>It's certainly not a deep book, in my op...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42129527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41596485">
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    <name><![CDATA[Christine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rochester, NY]]></location>        
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 08:22:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 02 08:22:02 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a pretty decent story from Keyes, who I have had mixed feelings about. This time around I enjoyed her main characters and their situations kept me interested.<br/>Mostly, I liked her mixed happy ending, with not everyone finding their happily ever after. The fatalistic view of the Irish my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41596485">more...</a>]]></body>
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