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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:53:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is really not much about cooking, and the language is beyond foul.  That really put me off.  I had hoped to read more about the recipes, and less about the author's politics or her feeling of superiority about living in New York (versus New Jersey).  I had hoped, also, to read more about J...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66231485">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:50:04 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:53:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a wonderful book.  The characters in the letters became so real to me, I was ready to go and visit the place.  This book chronicles a young author who learns about a book club that had met on the Island of Guernsey during World War II (which has just ended as this book begins).  The young w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61663005">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1253394.Nanny_State_How_Food_Fascists_Teetotaling_Do_Gooders_Priggish_Moralists_and_other_Boneheaded_Bureaucrats_are_Turning_America_into_a_Nation_of_Children">Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/604824.David_Harsanyi">David Harsanyi</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:25:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This columnist's book takes on the trend of government treating people like children who need to be protected from themselves:  the &quot;food police,&quot; cigarette police and seat-belt police.  Whatever happened to common sense?  Interesting and informative.]]></body>
        
    
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