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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:24:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:53:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:39:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[One of the reviews on the back cover calls this book &quot;brutal, redemptive&quot; and that is certainly true, but it's also like trying to describe a nuclear reactor meltdown by calling it 'hot'. I just read it in one sitting, unable to put it down, which I desperately wanted to do for most of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82053026">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83369.The_Mysterious_Benedict_Society">The Mysterious Benedict Society (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/47672.Trenton_Lee_Stewart">Trenton Lee Stewart</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:26:34 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I like children's books/young adult novels that aren't afraid to write about when children feel really, really bad. When they do something they are ashamed of or feel the lure of something (a person, an action, an inaction) that they know makes one a bad person. I don't think children have eternally...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80485923">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114166.Devil_in_Winter">Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27847.Lisa_Kleypas">Lisa Kleypas</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:50:27 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A stuttering, shy, red-headed heroine and a rake who puts the 'hell' in hellion...but of course she's level-headed and stubborn and he's secretly been getting bored with it all for ages, so they turn out to be a fabulous match. As someone who highly approves of the transition from publishing Regency...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78025203">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia">Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11679.Elizabeth_Gilbert">Elizabeth Gilbert</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:40:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am always suspicious of books that everyone tells me are wonderful and that I absolutely must read. That happened with The Da Vinci Code, and look what a pile of mildly entertaining but staggeringly poorly written poo-poo that was... But this book was excellent. Drastically funny in parts, particu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34261844">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3531209.A_House_in_Fez_Building_a_Life_in_the_Ancient_Heart_of_Morocco">A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1492572.Suzanna_Clarke">Suzanna Clarke</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:35:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A very enjoyable book. Taking the standard genre of &quot;author moves to charming foreign locale, buys house and endures through ups and downs of creating a new life far from home&quot; and makes it interesting again because of the non-European locale. Fez was long ago the capital of Morocco and is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78023777">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71675.A_Sea_of_Troubles">A Sea of Troubles (Commissario Brunetti #10)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16290.Donna_Leon">Donna Leon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:29:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I always buy a new Donna Leon book when one comes out, but the last couple haven't drawn me in quite as much as the first eight or so books I read in the series. I quite adore her Commissario Guido Brunetti of Venice, a very 'Everyman' police detective, with his love of good food, his typical teenag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78023650">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144844.A_Taxonomy_of_Barnacles_A_Novel">A Taxonomy of Barnacles: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83762.Galt_Niederhoffer">Galt Niederhoffer</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:06:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Althought there were passages of very enjoyable writing in this book, it was also so self-consciously artificial that I was constantly pulled out of the story. All of the six daughters of Bella and Barry Barnacle have names starting with the letter B, which I might be able to get past, as the parent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39979207">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4965.Year_of_Wonders">Year of Wonders (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/211268.Geraldine_Brooks">Geraldine Brooks</a>]]></action_text>
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