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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Jamison's thesis is that artists are disproportionately manic-depressive -- that manic-depressive illness and to a lesser extent unipolar depression are correlated with creativity.  She presented study after study to this effect, but most of them had vanishingly small sample sizes or other gaping fl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67241907">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:48:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A very well written description of the inequities in postwar Japan, their sources in the distant and recent past, and their ramifications in the present.  The author writes from extensive personal experience and several interviews with political and cultural figures, as well as Japanese salarymen, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78490280">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:03:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind">The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/108424.Patrick_Rothfuss">Patrick Rothfuss</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:15:34 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A low four stars, but all four are full of laughter and eagerness for the sequels.  Fascinating and sometimes beautiful.  Whether because it's a first novel or because of Mr. Rothfuss's way of writing I don't know, but this is a book that happily wears its literary devices on its sleeve.  If somethi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74793844">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2986323.Hare_s_Choice">Hare's Choice (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43437.Dennis_Hamley">Dennis Hamley</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:19:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[With this book I continued my emergent tradition of following emotionally turbulent reads with nice books about bunnies.  Hare's Choice was beautiful and simply written.  It was also a reread for me -- but a fifteen-year-old one.  This was my favorite book when I was ten, and in the interim I'd comp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77174410">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:22:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A cute little book that is pretty much exactly what you expect.  The ever-bemused Lemuel Gulliver is carried by various misfortunes through many improbable foreign lands, alternating between utopias that do not resemble England and dystopias that do.  Though the fanciful inhabitants of Swift's world...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72458642">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225078.Writing_Ethnographic_Fieldnotes">Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/131715.Robert_M_Emerson">Robert M. Emerson</a>]]></action_text>
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