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    <name><![CDATA[Jodi]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might be stating the obvious, but I love reading. It’s my favorite pastime and something I do every single day. That being said, not many books are fun to read. It’s not like reading is a buzzkill or painful, it’s just not, you know, fun. It’s kind of hard to explain. Norah Labiner’s German for Traveler’s was a lot of fun to read. The way Labiner plays with language and storytelling, made me smile in the middle of a page. It’s as though I could tell she had fun writing that sentence or paragraph. Her book is smart and clever in the way that makes you feel like you’re in on a joke.<br/><br/>I have loved many books so far this year, but none have been as fun to read as this one. It sounds weak and sort of cliche, but this novel is absolutely delightful. Labiner tells a story (or stories in this case) unlike anyone I’ve ever read before. Her writing is prose that verges on poetry filled with wordplay and mystery and wonder. <br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.minnesotareads.com/2009/05/sometimes-i-cannot-control-my-gushing/">read more</a>]]></body>
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