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          <body><![CDATA[Life in an America that few of us know - small towns on the Great Plains. The opportunities for contemplation and discovery offset (to some degree) the harsh and often dangerous climate, loneliness and privation. The analogy to monastic life was intriguing. Checked this book out of the library becau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81073223">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:45:58 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A must read for anyone who loves words, witty and well-crafted essays, and fountain pens.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:37:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:00:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As a lifelong Chicagoan and diehard Cub fan I found the authors did a grand job of mixing 90% fact with just enough fiction to make a compelling story. The best &quot;Cubs&quot; book since Warren Brown's in 1946. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:23:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The latest Dave Robicheaux mystery. If you enjoy novels about middle-aged, reformed alcoholic, Catholic guilt-plagued, Cajun detectives who live with more ghosts than you can count and who periodically relive their Viet Nam nightmares - and whose PI (i.e. private investigator AND politically incorre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38546356">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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