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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:34:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:33:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I think I would characterize this as Brit Chick Lit. I had just finished a boox filled with pain and suffering and I wanted to read something lighter.  The Jewel Box fit the bill. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:57:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I finally finished The Calligrapher's Daughter. I say finally because it was a slow read but ultimately worth reading.  The heroine, Najin,is so spirited and resilient and has to endure so much suffering, often blaming herself. Eventhough I understand how she might do that in the context of the culture and history of the times, but I still found it sad. <br/><br/>One of the precepts throughout the bookthat really stuck in my mind also was that women were expected to put others first. In our culture, women often put others first (especially mothers)but we also are able to to reach for what satisfies us and makes us happy.  <br/>I also found the history of Korea and the rest of the far east to be enlightening. I also realized that there were only a few short years between the end of the Japanese occupation and the Korean conflict. What a lot of turmoil for one people.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6224826.Juliet_Naked_A_Novel">Juliet, Naked: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929.Nick_Hornby">Nick Hornby</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:20:06 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As usual Nick Hornby makes you laugh out loud even while giving you a lot of food for thought.  Juliet Naked centers on Annie and Duncan, a couple just drifting along in a sad little town in England.  Annie yearns for something better while Duncan's life centers on being a fan of a washed up America...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81591661">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:49:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:48:38 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:44:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[very gothic and thoroughly eerie!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:41:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6400109-the-calligrapher-s-daughter">The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21007.Eugenia_Kim">Eugenia Kim</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:19:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[In my own rating system I would have given this a 3 1/2 rather than a 3. I felt the book was a very slow read but the history of the far east from 1915 to 1945 was interesting.  The way the author explained the Korean culture and history helped clairfy why the world today is the way it is.  The stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81586683">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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