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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:31:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:28:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am always skeptical when a male author has a woman protagonist -- and in this case, a woman protagonist who goes through childbirth.  But darn if MacLaverty didn't pull it off so well that I had to go back and check that the author really was a man.  He captures the relationship between Ireland an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80423497">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6788542-the-union-of-their-dreams">The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3050097.Miriam_Pawel">Miriam Pawel</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:46:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386347.Londonstani">Londonstani (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/219661.Gautam_Malkani">Gautam Malkani</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:44:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:49:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Singer is a prime example of fiction's power of  telling deeper, stronger truths than straight history.  What was it like to be one of the sole survivors of a Cossack pogrom in a Jewish shtetl in Poland? To maintain -- and practice -- your faith in isolation, in a barn in a rough rural village where you are considered merely a pair of hands and a strong back attached to an outcast, barely human being? Singer's amazing storytelling  hurts the heart and makes it soar again.]]></body>
        
    
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