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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111653.Cereus_Blooms_at_Night_A_Novel">Cereus Blooms at Night: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/55217.Shani_Mootoo">Shani Mootoo</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:08:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The style of the writing is extremely engaging. Part of the reason I didn't fully enjoy the novel is (I admit it openly) that the subject matter is very depressing. The other part is an uneasy feeling I have about some of the characters in the novel. The main character Pohpoh, or Mala is the best ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78136385">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769483.Magyk">Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/157663.Angie_Sage">Angie Sage</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:50:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<div style="font-style: italic">This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19983585">click here.</a></div>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:06:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:44:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[See, I would just read the second one and not worry about it, but that's the way I am these days, because I know I likely won't read more than one book in a series anyway.<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:35:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I think I mainly finished it because I was desperate for books at the time.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow">The Sparrow (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4007.Mary_Doria_Russell">Mary Doria Russell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:29:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is not a novel for the faint of heart. I found it something of a slog at times, because the ending is given away at the very beginning, since the fate of the main character (emotionally and physically brutalized) is made known from the start. It's a strange choice to make the ultimate failure o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10481672">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:27:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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