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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3228917.Outliers">Outliers (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1439.Malcolm_Gladwell">Malcolm Gladwell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:56:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, but think I'll be more interested in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point" title="The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell">The Tipping Point</a>. A lot of this I had already heard. Now I need to figure out what to put my 10,000 hours into.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:53:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's really written for teachers, but there's lots of stuff in there that's good to know as a parent about how intelligence and learning styles really work, how to praise kids effectively, and how to help them develop a love of learning.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:16:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:55:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6715300-frith-of-bermuda">Frith of Bermuda: Gentleman Privateer (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3023484.Sister_Jean_de_Chantal_Kennedy">Sister Jean de Chantal Kennedy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:16:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My father tracked down this biography of my great great great great great great grandfather, a pirate in 18th-century Bermuda.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7603.Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran_A_Memoir_in_Books">Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5151.Azar_Nafisi">Azar Nafisi</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:58:07 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I slogged through the whole thing after reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7604.Lolita_Penguin_Modern_Classics_" title="Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov">Lolita</a>, always thinking it was going to get better, but it just got worse. The bits that expose what it was like to be a woman in Tehran through the '80s and '90s were interesting, but the author failed at bringing the women in her book club to life, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20slogged%20through%20the%20whole%20thing%20after%20reading%20%5Bb:Lolita%7C7604%7CLolita%20(Penguin%20Modern%20Classics)%7CVladimir%20Nabokov%7Chttp:%2F%2Fphoto.goodreads.com%2Fbooks%2F1228045893s%2F7604.jpg%7C1268631%5D,%20always%20thinking%20it%20was%20going%20to%20get%20better,%20but%20it%20just%20got%20worse.%20The%20bits%20that%20expose%20what%20it%20was%20like%20to%20be%20a%20woman%20in%20Tehran%20through%20the%20'80s%20and%20'90s%20were%20interesting,%20but%20the%20author%20failed%20at%20bringing%20the%20women%20in%20her%20book%20club%20to%20life,%20and%20her%20references%20to%20the%20many%20books%20she's%20read%20added%20little,%20if%20anything%20to%20the%20story.%20Her%20obsession%20with%20Nabokov%20also%20failed%20to%20raise%20my%20interest%20in%20reading%20any%20more%20of%20his%20work,%20mainly%20because%20she%20talks%20about%20every%20book%20in%20a%20way%20that%20only%20resonates%20if%20you've%20read%20it.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6616088-come-on-shore-and-we-will-kill-and-eat-you-all">Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/813532.Christina_Thompson">Christina Thompson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:50:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I received this through the goodreads &quot;first reads&quot; program. I loved it. It was a nice mix of natural history of the Maori and other Polynesians, woven through with the author's personal history. It was a lot of what I'd hoped <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7603.Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran_A_Memoir_in_Books" title="Reading Lolita in Tehran  A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi">Reading Lolita in Tehran</a>, which disappointed me, would be. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20received%20this%20through%20the%20goodreads%20%22first%20reads%22%20program.%20I%20loved%20it.%20It%20was%20a%20nice%20mix%20of%20natural%20history%20of%20the%20Maori%20and%20other%20Polynesians,%20woven%20through%20with%20the%20author's%20personal%20history.%20It%20was%20a%20lot%20of%20what%20I'd%20hoped%20%5Bb:Reading%20Lolita%20in%20Tehran%7C7603%7CReading%20Lolita%20in%20Tehran%20%20A%20Memoir%20in%20Books%7CAzar%20Nafisi%7Chttp:%2F%2Fphoto.goodreads.com%2Fbooks%2F1165637149s%2F7603.jpg%7C903067%5D,%20which%20disappointed%20me,%20would%20be.%20%0D%0A%0D%0AChristina%20Thompson's%20writing%20is%20clear%20and%20succinct,%20and%20she%20has%20a%20way%20of%20bringing%20history%20to%20life%20without%20claiming%20to%20understand%20the%20psychology%20of%20anyone%20involved.%20She%20%20just%20presents%20the%20situations%20and%20lets%20you%20try%20to%20imagine.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30593.Pnin">Pnin (Everyman's Library)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5152.Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:06:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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