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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250203.The_Encyclopedia_of_Chicago">The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/146227.Janice_L_Reiff">Janice L. Reiff</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:12:51 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:10:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Decent, funny essays. Probably wouldn't read it again, but it was great for reading on the el and over Christmas vacation.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:07:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Basically scared me from ever wanting to have kids, but I appreciated her honesty about her feelings throughout the pregnancy and afterwards.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:02:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I wasn't really liking this one anyway, but I had to put it away after this gem: &quot;I've only ever met one woman who understand that you [bassists:] aren't playing the guitar solo in the middle eight bars of the song. And the only reason she understood the difference between the lead guitarist an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81702174">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6267192.The_Original_of_Laura">The Original of Laura (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5152.Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:31:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very much a Nabokov book. I loved being able to peer inside his head and follow his thought process with the notecards. What a great design idea!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3679.On_Beauty">On Beauty (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2522.Zadie_Smith">Zadie Smith</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:24:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I was surprised at how much I liked this one. It definitely took me a while to get into it, and I can't say I was too pleased with the ending, but overall it was very good.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2967752.The_Elegance_of_the_Hedgehog">The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/643126.Muriel_Barbery">Muriel Barbery</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:12:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6477815-bicycle-diaries">Bicycle Diaries (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27078.David_Byrne">David Byrne</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:28:06 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This one gets 3 1/2 stars. It was interesting reading about Byrne's travels all over the world, and I love that he uses his bicycle so much. But I really felt that he was preaching to the choir the whole time. The people who read this book will likely agree with everything he write about urban spraw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77186540">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97782.Then_We_Came_to_the_End">Then We Came to the End (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/56223.Joshua_Ferris">Joshua Ferris</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:48:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4954833.Brooklyn_A_Novel">Brooklyn: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1351903.Colm_T_ib_n">Colm Tóibín</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:41:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sigh. The first 25 page or so were great. But then nothing happened. And it stayed that way until the end.<br/>I did not like the main character at all - she felt very shallow and 2-dimensional. And at the end of the book, it seemed that no matter which choice she made she would end up unhappy. Not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75427731">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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