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    <updated_at>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:55:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love this book with all my heart.   A sweeping epic, in my opinion, that spans England and France and gives the story of three people entertwined by fate.  Robbie and Cecilia share a love story that can survive through a war, jail, and class differences.  Briony is a little girl striving so hard t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55104949">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:49:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's the story of two different girls from two very different childhoods surviving their own personal tragedies only to be put at odds with each and their journey to overcome those petty battles between people to form a bond most unbreakable.  Such is the story arch and overall theme of Hosseini's n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55104405">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5826.Bel_Canto">Bel Canto (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2531.Ann_Patchett">Ann Patchett</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:40:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The interesting thing about Bel Canto is how slow the narrative is but how ell it keeps your attention.  While the action of the novel picks up and as the reader you get caught up in themes of forbidden love, humanity's connections, and the value of time, it takes a while to get yourself completely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55104225">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:19:03 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this book.  It was so real and down to earth, yet incredibly witty and structured, that I felt very comfortable.  The story is simple but complex.  I grew up with Jeannette in a way, as she recounts her childhood with her parents.  Those type of deep personal connections one can make with th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45182203">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:16:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book was very mixed for me.  All in all, I liked it.  I think Lahiri writes beautifully and her descriptions are so rich with content and style that every is as delicious as she describes.  I found the story of the Ganguli family very interesting, a new perspective to immigration that isn't oft...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45181863">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road">The Road (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4178.Cormac_McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:55:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, is less of a novel than an epic poem.  The movement of the father and son, the distinct yet unspecific images, and the shear raw emotion evoked in the reader without emotion in the writing all lends itself to a song in verse.<br/>  The World is seemingly destroyed, all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44864272">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:51:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  There is something about the town of Empire Falls.  While vibrant and currentally afloat, the reader has the feeling in the back of their throat that this town is slowly dying.  Its businesses are slowly folding, it's people stuck on the side of the river of life.  Everything is just sitting, slow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44767157">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24731.The_Tortilla_Curtain">The Tortilla Curtain (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1064072.T_C_Boyle">T.C. Boyle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:33:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  This book annoyed me to no end.  T.C. Boyle tried to show realistic people going to extreme surrounding the issues of illegal immigration.  The only problem is that none of those people seem realistic.  Their actions, from Candido to Delaney, are created out of Boyle's need for the story to move i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44766659">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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