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    <name><![CDATA[Jessica]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 29 19:53:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 29 20:53:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up basically because it's set in Hawaii, and I am obsessed with all things Hawaiian. The story was not new - idiot husband moves family away from home, and then leaves (funny, this was the second book I read this week with this theme, but the other one was a memoir and much better reading). I liked the Hawaiian aspect, but I found myself constantly annoyed with the wife - who (I think) we are supposed to feel sorry for. Her character supposedly develops from a &quot;typical&quot; moneyed New Yorker to a person more &quot;at one&quot; with Mother Nature, but I still found her shallow and annoying. But it was quick read, and good enough for bedtime.]]></body>
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