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    <updated_at>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:29:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[How much of &quot;Little Women&quot; and other Alcott favorites is based on reality? That's one of the questions Reisen tries to answer. Far more interesting than that issue is the life of Alcott herself. Many a person may identify with her situation, as the only wage-earner, from her teens to death...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82733688">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617796-the-last-empress">The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/147357.Hannah_Pakula">Hannah Pakula</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:55:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[For a 681-page tome, it's amazing that this biography does not fail to fascinate. Perhaps my interest comes from my personal memories of the positive spin, sometimes hagiographic, on Madame Chiang Kai-Shek during the 1940's and especially 1950's. Then and into the 60's, she was running around the US...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80950774">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7139260-arctic-chill">Arctic Chill (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3116520.Arnaldur_Indridason">Arnaldur Indridason</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:09:18 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the best Indridason to date. In this book, he has has turned away from his usual dismal stories of the detective's dysfunctional offspring and spent more time describing social conditions in Iceland nowadays. That's one of the great functions of novels, including detective stories like this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79647377">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6634223-the-queen-mother">The Queen Mother: The Official Biography (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/86739.William_Shawcross">William Shawcross</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:49:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Pity the poor writer of an official biography of a member of a powerful family. He must not offend anyone. And that means he won't offer any insights or interpretations. The outline of the Queen Mother's story is well-known and other, less hampered authors have been far more revealing. Ye gods, even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79646417">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:56:43 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A mystery-thriller, originally in Swedish, this well-plotted story moves along briskly despite its almost-600 pages. The protagonist, a journalist, hired to decipher the long-ago disappearance of a teenaged member of a wealthy family, is a likable sort; his side-kick investigator, the girl of the ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74060689">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1133881.A_Good_Death">A Good Death (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25819.Elizabeth_Ironside">Elizabeth Ironside</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:59:18 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ironside is insightful and skilled, I have loved her other books, this one is just as well-done but I did not enjoy it, it was too dark for my present mood. I did not particularly empathize with the characters, and perhaps was not meant to. Detective-series (which this was NOT) have an advantage, on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73727308">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6163416.The_Lost_Art_of_Gratitude">The Lost Art of Gratitude (Sunday Philosophy Club, #6)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4738.Alexander_McCall_Smith">Alexander McCall Smith</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:32:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another pleasant and interesting book in this series! Alexander McCall Smith, who brought us Precious Ramotswe, also brings us the similarly-upright but more sophisticated Isabel Dalhousie, a philosopher, who edits a journal of the same, and lives in Edinburgh (as does the author). In this book, Isa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73654551">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024.The_Help">The Help (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1943477.Kathryn_Stockett">Kathryn Stockett</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:23:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The story is set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1960's, and narrated in the first person by three voices, one (Skeeter) is an upper-middle-class unmarried young woman, the other two are black maids, Aibileen and Minny. Young and middle-aged people who've grown up in the North or West may think that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71395291">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30966.Rounding_the_Mark">Rounding the Mark (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17350.Andrea_Camilleri">Andrea Camilleri</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:50:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have been reading Camilleri's series of books, in the order of their copyrights, featuring Inspector Montalbano of a small town in Sicily. His plots vary fairly widely in interest. This is one of the best so far, having a well-worked-out story with sufficient complications to be satisfying. The au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70828958">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5556466.The_Last_Child">The Last Child (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/47072.John_Hart">John Hart</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:14:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hart's style in this mystery/thriller is telegraphic, fast to read. The plot takes some interesting and believable twists, the protagonists are likeable, the villains believable. Hart is not among my top favorite writers in the genre, but he does a good job. ]]></body>
        
    
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