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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:44:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Very moving, un-put-downable.  Not what I would normally choose to read, so thanks to Book Fox Eve for the recommendation.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:38:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320501.Lancashire_Where_Woman_Die_Of_Love">Lancashire, Where Woman Die Of Love (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/184103.Charles_Nevin">Charles Nevin</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:36:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Quite a genre growing, 'it's not grim up North despite what you soft southerners say'.  This one gets four stars from me, at least two of which are for the title.  How could I resist it?  Charles Nevin's book is more wistful and elegaic than Stuart Maconie's rumbustious 'Pies and Prejudice', immense...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69452519">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:29:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another delicious regency read from Elizabeth Hanbury, with a hint of the darker side of London life that underlies its glittering society.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:31:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4736850.The_Pitmen_Painters">The Pitmen Painters (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/130671.Lee_Hall">Lee Hall</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:29:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have not read this play text, but I have been to see the play at the National Theatre.  Here is my review:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/19uOWn">http://bit.ly/19uOWn</a><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:26:48 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Excellent study of a fascinating phenomenon.  The Ashington Group of painters, from a Northumberland mining community, attracted the interest of the art world in the 19030s when it was set up, and still has something to say to us today about how life and art can interact.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/Oq2ct">http://bit.ly/Oq2ct</a>...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:21:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting, and some breath-takingly original and painstaking research went into this.  But it seemed to take a long time to say not all that much.  Less substance than 'The Reckoning', but the same admirable scholarship.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3091704.Queen_of_the_Wits_A_Life_of_Laetitia_Pilkington">Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/98684.Norma_Clarke">Norma Clarke</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:15:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A brilliantly written, thoroughly researched biography of a woman of talent and spirit - but I found it a gruelling read, as, despite her literary fame, Laetitia Pilkington lived on a knife-edge between bare survival and ruin, as she found herself on the wrong side of conventional society in the mid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38441305">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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