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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:54:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:44:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Yet another book that is perfect for airplane travel and sitting in airports: not too complicated but pulls you along. I found this to be surprisingly well-written for what is essentially a young adult romance. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:29:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I enjoy Vowell's sense of humor and her ability to weave a great story of historical events, mindsets, conventions, and to make it living and relevant to the current day. I think that her informal style is best served in a short essay form, though: this book is set up as an extended essay with occas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75399400">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587960.The_Thing_Around_Your_Neck">The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11291.Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie">Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:44:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Adichie is still a writer that has you completely hooked from the first paragraph. I'm not crazy about 2nd person narratives (there are two in this volume) but I got wrapped up enough not to care. Wow.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:24:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books I've read this year. While it came highly recommended, I was still surprised at how caught up I became in this novel. Collins does a wonderful job with the narrative, telling the story from many different characters' points of view. He is also a master of the cliff-h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66863099">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:18:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[That's kind of hard to answer, as they are both intertwined. She makes a lot of observations on living in France, describing the people she got to know and places she lived, and describing her daily life. But it's a biography, and her discovery of and training in cooking - the focus of the rest of her life - is really at the heart of this book. Honestly, I didn't think it was going to be as enjoyable as it was: her tone of wonder and humor and enthusiasm is completely infectious. The cooking part becomes more and more predominant - it may be worth trying out the first third of the book and reading until The Cookbook dominates?]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:04:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I decided to read it after I had a conversation in which the other person said &quot;oh, Iran is Persian, not Arabic&quot; and I realized that I had no idea what the difference was. I am really going through it slowly. Basically, I'll read a chapter and get distracted by another book or two, often forgetting what I have read before I pick it back up. It's well-written and concise, but that means that it's dense reading. For a textbook it's very good - I'm just a bad student! <br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24687.Don_t_Let_s_Go_to_the_Dogs_Tonight_An_African_Childhood">Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13900.Alexandra_Fuller">Alexandra Fuller</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87057.A_History_of_the_Wife">A History of the Wife (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/48573.Marilyn_Yalom">Marilyn Yalom</a>]]></action_text>
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