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    <updated_at>Thu, 07 May 2009 09:00:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating read, especially if you like mysteries.  It was written in 1860, by a contemporary of Dickens, and is considered to be one of the first published sensationalized mysteries.  The language is a little stiff and wordy, but with a little skimming, the story wizzes by.<br/>It kept ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55259850">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:29:51 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Isn't this book great!  I re-read it and deconstructed it with one of my students this summer. Loved it.  I'll have to try reading some of her other ones.<br/>Gayle]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1297985.Musicophilia_Tales_of_Music_and_the_Brain">Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/843200.Oliver_W_Sacks">Oliver W. Sacks</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:13:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:10:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1044746.On_the_Wrong_Track_A_Holmes_on_the_Range_Mystery">On the Wrong Track: A Holmes on the Range Mystery (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146628.Steve_Hockensmith">Steve Hockensmith</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:09:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[What a fun read: a detective story set in the &quot;old west&quot;, and on a train! Cleverly written.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2872301.The_Night_Villa">The Night Villa (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18130.Carol_Goodman">Carol Goodman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:07:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read this on the way home from Italy..nice reminder of some of the traditions, etc... BUT it is an archeological/murder mystery...so not really a travel journal type book.  Was interesting.  Good suspense.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:02:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Wow, Amanda,<br/>Sounds like you're into some &quot;heavy&quot; stuff.<br/>Enjoy1<br/>Gayle]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7244.The_Poisonwood_Bible">The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3541.Barbara_Kingsolver">Barbara Kingsolver</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:36:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[What a great book!  Just finished rereading it after 10 years. Wonderful insight into Christianity, 1960's U.S., and  the developing countries in Africa (Congo).  A must read for Americans wanting to understand our place in the developing world.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1019801.ADHD_and_Me_What_I_Learned_from_Lighting_Fires_at_the_Dinner_Table">ADHD and Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/510396.Blake_E_S_Taylor">Blake E.S. Taylor</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:34:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting memoir of an adolescent living with ADHD.  Funny, insightful, and some good useful advice for coping.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/524878.Without_Reservations_The_Travels_of_an_Independent_Woman">Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73322.Alice_Steinbach">Alice Steinbach</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:24:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[ The topics of the book-traveling through parts of Europe, and becoming independent as a mature woman-were interesting to me, but I was disappointed in the structure and flow of writing in this book.   The story was told in an uneven fashion, with lingering descriptions of  seemingly minor incidents...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20891165">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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