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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a while to get into this book. Author Jennifer Solow gave too much weight to the shallowness of the heroine and why her life was so miserable. Too much whining for too long.<br/><br/>However, about halfway through the book with the arrival of underground characters, the heroine redeemed h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65930810">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Jillian Siegil has a great life. SHe has a super hot boyfriend, excellent job, great apartment and a little secret...she likes to steal.<br/><br/>After getting caught by a LP (loss prevention) her life and world take a turn upside down.<br/><br/>Great story, the ending was the best.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book but it wasn't great. I really don't remember much about it. I liked the way that this book showed the love between the uncle and the lead character. I hated that Solow brought in the entire &quot;big time&quot; shoplifting ring. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Jillian Siegel is living the quintessential Manhattan life: great clothes, fabulous boyfriend, a job at the hottest ad agency in town. But what nobody knows is that this twenty-nine-year-old has a dark little secret -- one that involves stuffing her oversize Gucci handbag with high-priced designer clothes and leaving the store without paying. <p><p>There was once a time when Jillian didn't need to shop (much less <em>steal)</em> to feel whole. But that was long ago -- when her beloved uncle Bingo still owned Loevner's, the elegant Upper East Side department store. When, as a little girl, she spent hours listening to the wisdom of the perfume counter ladies and modeling party dresses for her uncle's impish partner, Alain; when she danced beneath Loevner's magnificent chandelier, found solace in the secret passageways behind its grand facade, and when her mother's prolonged absences were easily forgotten with a new camel-hair coat or a fresh pair of Mary Janes. <p><p>And then one day it was all gone. The department store family, the enchanted world, the endless abundance -- pulled out from under her by her jet-setting mother, Lois; by the father she never knew; by the death of Alain, a cherished friend and confidant; and by the man with two first names who orchestrated the corporate takeover of her family's venerable sanctuary. <p><p>Now, years later, Jillian cannot seem to make things right no matter how many Chloé blouses come home in her pocketbook. Her &quot;perfect&quot; life is loosely held together with half milligrams of Ativan and stolen cashmere scarves. It's only a matter of time until everything crumbles.<p><p>Penned by one of advertising's most influential and provocative writers, this highly anticipated debut is packed with vibrant characters, bristling dialogue, and the rich detail of the author's real-life research into the clandestine world of shoplifting rings. <em>The Booster</em> is a uniquely stylish, deftly woven story about discovering one's true self in the most unexpected of places.<p> <p><p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my Favs!  Get's your heart rate up just by turning the pages...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a lot of fun! If you like Candace Bushnell, you'll like this book. I actually liked it better than Candace's books. But it's sort of Trading Up meets Breakfast at Tiffany's. There was also a nice little twist at the end that I really enjoyed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give this 3.5 stars.  Unusual chick-lit-esque book about a woman who shoplifts.  I almost stopped a few chapters in because it was just so peculiar, but my sister told me to stick with it and I ended up really getting into it.]]></body>
    
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