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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:33:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[God bless us, Everyone!<br/><br/>The kids and I were listening to this on CD last week. It was fun to watch their faces during the descriptions of Marley and his chains. They didn't know a Christmas story could be so scary.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:07:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm glad to hear it. I hope it's not tainted for you because it's assigned reading. :)]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:57:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure how to categorize this book. It's part memoir, part investigative journalism, part nostalgia, with a handful of recipes, sprinkled here and there like party favors. Mallet divides the book into five sections: eggs, cheese, beef, kitchen gardens, and fish. I liked the egg section best an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81715916">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:52:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Quilp is such an over-the-top villain that it's almost fun to see the horrors Dickens puts him up to. It's been a while since I read this, but I still remember a few of the scenes vividly. That's one thing I really liked about it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:03:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[That's good enough for me!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You want to throw a man who probably couldn't swim (I agree that he probably couldn't) into a canal? Well, I won't force you to read Brodsky again. His books I checked out are back on the CU shelves. They hadn't been checked out for years before I got them; I suspect they'll have another deep slumber.<br/><br/>I think it's safe to say that very few people these days would argue that the Nobel committee is infallible. Maybe somebody on the committee had a crush on him.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:00:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The Stranger reminds me of The Sound and the Fury in a way. It's spare and detached, but I think the detachment leads to greater pathos in the end because of the contrast. I felt devastated by the image of minor character Perez at Maman's funeral: &quot;Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80926233">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:15:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I started skimming after Act I and then found myself skipping entire pages.<br/><br/>It's an interesting premise. The play is set in a futuristic society that is patterned after the old Roman Empire. The citizens wear togas and name their children after ancient Romans. The society is supposedly ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79922919">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:08:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The characters are charming, the dialogue between Tom and Huck is humorous, and Mark Twain is a clever narrator, but there's something wanting. Nonetheless, it's fun to read about 19th century childhood. The fascination with dead cats has thankfully gone out of style, but kids still play pirates and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79922420">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:02:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[For about the first half of the book, I didn't really like the poems. They felt raw and discontent. But about halfway through the book, the tone of the poems shifted. That's when I noticed the dates. They are ordered chronologically. By the mid-1980s, the poems feel wise and hopeful. Then I got to t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78997757">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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