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  <title><![CDATA[Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions]]></title>
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  <default_description>Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wedding. One heated embrace in a quiet coatroom.  This is not exactly the recipe for true love. John and Jane&amp;#8217;s lusty encounter at a friend&amp;#8217;s wedding isn&amp;#8217;t really the beginning of anything with any weight to it; even they know that. When they manage to pull back, it occurs to them that they might start this whole thing over properly. They might try getting to know one another first, through letters.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;   What follows is a series of traded confessions&amp;#8212;of their messy histories, their past errors, their big loves, their flaws, and  their passions. Each love affair, confessed as honestly as possible,  reveals the ways in which Jane and John have grown and changed&amp;#8212;or not changed&amp;#8212;over the years; the people they&amp;#8217;ve  hurt, the ones still bruised. The ones who bruised them. Where all of this soul-baring will take them is the burning question behind every letter&amp;#8212;a question that can only be answered when they meet again, finally, in the flesh.  </default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An experiment that struggles for a long time and finally, in the last chapter, starts to work. The &quot;confessions&quot; themselves make for great reads, but the coming together of the correspondents, which is supposed to be the framework for the correspondence, is bumpy at best. One could argue t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4106906">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 02 15:22:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 04 05:41:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have always thought the opening sentence of a book is the author's best pickup line pitched at the reader. <br/><br/>More so, then, in a book where well-constructed paragraphs hold the explicit promise of intimate relations--that, at least, is the premise of this post-postmodern epistolary novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34390008">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 05 17:14:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 30 09:29:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jane and John are about to get it on in the coat room at a wedding when he suddenly stops – maybe there could be more to this relationship than just sex.  So they part with only each other’s address and a vow to confess the details of important past relationships to the other.  And so the letter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2751915">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="584184">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 05 08:51:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 05 08:55:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I need a half-star.  Because this book was fun, and cute, and enjoyable.  It was really, really good chick lit.  But chick lit doesn't really deserve four stars... I think my ratings are very dependent on what kind of book it is, and for chick-lit, this is a four-star book.  For literature, three.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/584184">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 08 08:55:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 09 13:12:16 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book reminded me of long ago days when all you had available for long distance communication was a letter. Words had to be chosen to convey just the right mood or emphasis. Our hurried, technology-filled lifestyle of today has robbed us the joy of opening a hand-written letter, pouring over eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1099864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2287058">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jeff]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[postal service devotees, lousy lovers and fans of predictable endings.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 16 13:13:46 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 21:07:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 05 07:42:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are portions of this book that remind me of a certain romantic blunder so stupefyingly painful and embarrassing I will likely never confess it to anyone. Still, I found myself able to push that aside long enough to gobble down this confection of an epistolary novel.<br/><br/>I am not, howeve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2287058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43704032">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 20 10:37:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 30 12:14:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was so funny. In that PG-13 Steve Almond sort of way. It's a series of letters between 2 people who meet at a wedding. They almost jump in the sack with one another at the wedding, but at the last moment they decide to stop and get to know one another first. But because one lives in Philad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43704032">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64595733">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 22 19:16:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 19:30:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Steve Almond's Candyfreak. However, this is navelgazing, pretentious tripe in an epistolary format. Good light reading, hard for me to relate to since I did not grow up as a privileged suburbanite or a kid with supportive/hippie zen-no restrictions parents. I actually keep forgetting that so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64595733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36920556">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people in need of a very low rent &quot;griffin &amp; sabine,&quot; romantics who came of age in 1991]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 04 15:24:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 23 08:17:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i didn't really care for this book. it was co-written by steve almond &amp; julianne baggott (i think that's her name) &amp; it's about a man &amp; a woman who meet one another at the wedding of some mutual friends. there's a spark, they make out in the coat room, &amp; then they have a weird long-distance pseudo-r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36920556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55798297">
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  <read_at>Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed May 27 05:31:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I would give this 3 and a half stars.  I did like reading it along the way.  The premise of the story is these two characters--Jane and John--meet at a wedding and are about to have sex in the coat closet when they stop and decide--no, not like this.  So they get to know each other first t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55798297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21947264">
    <user id="99163">
    <name><![CDATA[Olivia]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Berlin, Germany]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who can indulge finesse of language over plot]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 09 14:36:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat May 24 14:49:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions" title=" Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions"> Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions</a>, starts off as any heart-melting art-house film might: two uppity and well-spoken characters meet at a wedding, and they fall in lust.  However, instead of screwing in a coat closet, they decide to write each other letters, and what follows is the endl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21947264">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21947264]]></url>
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    <review id="7042868">
    <user id="436805">
    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 30 14:05:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 01 21:42:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[	John and Jane attempt to have sex in a coat room after exchanging a few words of greeting, if looking at a dead lump on the lawn can be called greeting.  Only John cannot do it, and thus with the letters of confession in lieu of sex, this story begins.  Is this possible? Forsaking the chance to hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7042868">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7042868]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="37572560">
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  <date_updated>Sat Dec 06 13:25:54 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The two main characters meet at a wedding and quickly find themselves on top of each other in a coat closet.  It's pretty hot, actually.  Jane and John don't &quot;go through with it&quot;, however, but decide instead to have a relationship via letters of confessions.   <br/><br/>They write to eac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37572560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38087557">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 18 17:06:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 19 06:42:30 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one of those books that really sticks with you - I kept thinking about it for a long time after I read it, even though I did find it a bit annoying in places. I didn't like Jane as much as I liked John, I thought she was a bit of a weirdo (and obviously a bit PROUD of being weird, like she obvi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38087557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9753999">
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    <name><![CDATA[Daniel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rushford, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Nov 30 07:11:08 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 30 07:12:33 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a tremendous fan of Almond's writing and really looked forward to this new book ... bumping it up my reading list just so I could devour it, but I found it sadly lacking. It is the fault, I believe, of the format of this book. <br/><br/>A series of letters detailing one biased perspective of a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9753999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46911208">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was disappointing. It started out with such a bang, I couldn't wait to read more until about 100 pages in. I completely lost interest because there is no incentive to continue reading. Each letter/chapter completes a story and I didn't care to learn any more about the main characters. On t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46911208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a fascinating premise that roped me in. It's written as a set of letters back and forth between two strangers who meet at a wedding and live in different cities in different states. They mail letters back and forth, only telling each other about the past, never talking about the future...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34205725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so interesting...I borrowed this from Em (Jim lent it to her), and I realized that part of it in a different form was in the collection &quot;Lit Riffs&quot; that I bought because it's an interesting concept (stories based on songs), but not that great in actuality.  Mostly because I didn't know the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48313342">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the review I desperately wanted to write when I read the dedication page:<br/><br/>***<br/>This is the dedication page of <em>Which Brings Me to You</em>:<br/><br/><em>For the delectable Ms. Thang -- a most arousing companion.<br/>-SA<br/><br/><br/>For Betsy Mackenzie,<br/>1964-2004.<br/>You c...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20985512">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[If you're a fan of epistolary fiction, this book is for you. <br/><br/>After an almost-hookup at a wedding, Jane and John who live in different cities decide to get to know each other better by writing each other letters. The letters are at times hilarious and other times heart-breaking.]]></body>
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