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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/846106.KOJIKI">KOJIKI (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/183522.Donald_L_Philippi">Donald L. Philippi</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:11:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If there was a re-reading shelf I suppose that I'd list Kojiki there.  Long ago when I first began to learn Japanese language, much about the culture was difficult to explain.  Kojiki carries a lot of those concepts that &quot;unregenerate Westerners&quot; tend to miss.  As I resumed my studies of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72990909">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3507618.Fruitless_Fall_The_Collapse_of_the_Honeybee_and_the_Coming_Agricultural_Crisis">Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16940.Rowan_Jacobsen">Rowan Jacobsen</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:03:58 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I started reading but was interrupted.  I'll get back to it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1634959.Prime_Detecting_Sieves_">Prime-Detecting Sieves. (LMS-33)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/756347.Glyn_Harman">Glyn Harman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:47:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1063142.The_Gilda_Stories_A_Novel">The Gilda Stories: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/109823.Jewelle_L_Gomez">Jewelle L. Gomez</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:07:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Yes, my spouse got me to read another novel!  <br/><br/>When left to my own devises, I tend to stay up into the wee hours of the morning and don't rise again until well into the afternoon, I hate garlic, and I avoid direct sun exposure.  These and other habits might expose me as a vampire, except th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60688281">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 14 May 2009 07:52:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[From a cosmological perspective, I find observance a more essential quality and base reflections on that concept.  I live in a city with such enormous amounts of light pollution that a clear night's sky is a deep navy blue, and few stars can be seen.  From that perspective one might observe that the universe stops somewhere above the city, but I know from my walks under a night's sky in the Arizona and New Mexico deserts that there is a greater expanse.  From the Hubble images, there is even more than we can imagine.  I rather think that as our tools to observe become more sophisticated and our sight reaches further, the question will become less a matter of a binary &quot;believe or not believe,&quot; and more of a realization that there is a cosmological expanse that transcends any anthropomorphic deity.  <br/><br/>I'd rather be called an &quot;observer&quot; than any of the proposed labels.  Considering my location in the reality that I can observe, there is no observable centre, and I am only a fleck in a universe that seemingly has no edge to it.  Perhaps this universe is likewise a fleck among other flecks in a further expansive environment.  Each time we say &quot;we are the centre, we find that we are massively mistaken, and each time we say that we are the only one, we find that we are in an uncountable cast.  To observe the trend, I believe that it would be foolish to assume any ultimate deity, if there would be one, would be observable from my terrible small position.  This, however, isn't going to stop me from trying to make an observation.  Each time I do, I learn something about myself.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79876.Does_My_Head_Look_Big_In_This_">Does My Head Look Big In This? (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45465.Randa_Abdel_Fattah">Randa Abdel-Fattah</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:33:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The main character, Amal, makes a self constructed journey through the struggles of being different that for many of us was involuntarily imposed.  (For this reviewer high school was a nightmare that has her hoping against all hope that reincarnation isn't obligatory.)  I found that this was one of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52923646">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[took the never-ending book quiz]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:58:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2623572.Counterknowledge_How_We_Surrendered_To_Conspiracy_Theories_Quack_Medicine_Bogus_Science_and_Fake_History">Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered To Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science, and Fake History (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16597.Damian_Thompson">Damian Thompson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:13:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Damian Thompson lays out the very considerable problem of a failure in critical thinking that has so deeply permeated popular culture.  In many ways I found his assessment to be quite significant, if not specifically enumerated in ways that exclude certain issues that do indeed have solid scientific...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50740008">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181389.Shalom_Japan_A_Sabra_s_Five_Years_in_the_Land_of_the_Rising_Sun">Shalom Japan: A Sabra's Five Years in the Land of the Rising Sun (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7253.Shifra_Horn">Shifra Horn</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:26:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My impressions of Japan are that while I'd always be a &quot;gaijin,&quot; there is much in common with my upbringing.  The chapters related to body language and negotiation struck a familiar chord with me as I read of this commonality.  I was surprised at how my conversant style (for lack of a bett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49331929">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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