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          <body><![CDATA[This is a very funny book, and anyone who has kids can totally related to the antics of juggling diapers and feedings and stake outs and murder. Looking forward to #2! ]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Joe, <br/>that's certainly possible. I've never tried to get published in a 'top notch literary magazine.' Not sure I know the names of any. I write books, not articles. Guess I should have made sure we were talking about the same thing before I stuck my neb in. My apologies.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:53:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Tamora Pierce is AWESOME! I don't like the early books, and the Tortall books, as much as I like the Circle of Magic books, though. The first quartet starts when the four children are 10-11; the second (The Circle Opens) takes place when they're 14 - those are a little darker than the first four - and then there's a single book when they're 18, called &quot;The Will of the Empress,&quot; which is fantastic. Lately, she's been adding some Circle books from earlier years, too. And there's a new series about a girl named Beka Cooper, that totally rocks, as well! Those are set in the Tortall-universe, 200 or so years before Alanna, but I enjoyed the first, mostly because it's really a mystery/police procedural more than a fantasy novel. (Not that I mind fantasy at all; I just don't enjoy Tortall that much.) And Tamora just writes wonderfully well!  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:33:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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