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    <updated_at>Tue, 26 May 2009 11:06:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read this book in two days which is a sign of a good book.  I enjoyed it, though it did make me cry.  It is mostly the story of her relationship with her father, but I found the few little bits about her relationship with her mother very familiar and memorable.  I gave it three stars because it is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57381249">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia">Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11679.Elizabeth_Gilbert">Elizabeth Gilbert</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:31:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book.  It was great for soaking in the bathtub reading.  I had a problem with the author/narrator, sometimes.  I don't know, she just bothered me.  I wish I had never seen the picture of the author on the back because it just kind of killed the picture I had in my head of who this wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54551682">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37442.Wicked_The_Life_and_Times_of_the_Wicked_Witch_of_the_West">Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7025.Gregory_Maguire">Gregory Maguire</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:21:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I draw the line at orgies between dwarves and goats.  I appreciate a good imagination, but this book was just one of those weird dreams that never seems to be over, never seems to reveal anything, and never provides any satisfaction.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/897642.The_House_on_First_Street_My_New_Orleans_Story">The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22964.Julia_Reed">Julia Reed</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:30:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Well, I, too, live on First Street in New Orleans, so my opinion may be biased.  I personally know almost everyone she talks about in the book.  She also spends a lot of time talking about local restaurants and my husband is a local chef - so, needless to say I have a lot in common with the author. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26566340">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:19:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I would put this as my third favorite of Conroy's.  But, it still really can't touch The Lords of Discipline or The Prince of Tides.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:17:43 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting as this was his only truly auto-biographical book.  Again, the scenes with his father are some of the worst horror ever.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:16:08 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This one was very good in terms of the insight it gave you into his father, but it was not his best.  I do, however, have dreams of the house that he lived in in this book.  All events that take place in a Southern home, I picture as taking place in this house.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16735.The_Prince_of_Tides">The Prince of Tides (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6942.Pat_Conroy">Pat Conroy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:14:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[One of the best books that I have ever read.  If you are a Southerner, it's a must read.  If you have ever lived in the South, it's a must read.  I forget most books that I read and I read them again years later having virtually no recollection of the plot.  This is not one of those.  I read this bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26565182">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129947.The_Water_is_Wide">The Water is Wide (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6942.Pat_Conroy">Pat Conroy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:11:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I wish that it had ended better, but when you consider that this was his first-ever book it's pretty impressive.  If you're a Pat Conroy fan you have to read this book in order to see how the books that followed unfolded from this first one.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85443.The_Lords_of_Discipline">The Lords of Discipline (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6942.Pat_Conroy">Pat Conroy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:09:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Truly an outstanding book.  I wish I could have written a book like this about Davidson, but nothing that dramatic ever happened there.  My mother and sister would disagree, but I think that this was Pat Conroy's greatest novel ever.  ]]></body>
        
    
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