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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:32:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A friendly reminder that it's never a bad time for a reread.  Contact me to borrow.  Still better than the movie, since the movie completely trashes the conceit of these people all being average joes.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:31:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A little chick-litty but not aggressively so. Basic premise: private opera performance is interrupted by la revolucion, which turns into a weeks-long hostage situation.  A mixture of stockholm syndrome and touching things ensues.  It's a gripping read and passionately written; I wish I had more of a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50161740">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:25:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Baaaaaaankrupt culture.  BAAAAAAAAAAAAANKRUPT culture.  <br/><br/>Good book; compelling protaganist.  Very beautiful writing.  Had pretty much what I expected in terms of japenese sexual mores.  No tentacles.  For some reason, though, I was glad when it was over.  Hat tip to Seyward for the rec.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:04:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Cute little story with a few resonant phrases.  God/mysticism stuff a little much but that's his wheelhouse so what are you gonna do.<br/><br/>Thanks to Hannah for the rec.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:03:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good stuff!  Fun crime romp through a hist-fic account of the Kennedy assassination.  Only complaint is that sometimes things got a little convoluted and I felt like a 5th grader watching Usual Suspects.  Like &quot;hey wait why is the Klan involved?  Huh?&quot;  Also, pretty hard to read if you are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48328560">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Okay I don't think I can conceivably gush sufficiently on this book so here goes my best effort  This is the most gripping and touching nonfiction I've ever read:  Mortenson leads a life that, frankly, seems literally unbelievable in the literal sense of literally.  Some nonfic inspires but this lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46024484">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495395.The_Year_of_Living_Biblically_One_Man_s_Humble_Quest_to_Follow_the_Bible_As_Literally_As_Possible">The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible As Literally As Possible (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/963811.A_J_Jacobs">A.J. Jacobs</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:24:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:13:50 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[T'was time for nonfiction again.  This is the only Grisham book I've read, so I can't make a comparison to his fiction.  An arresting (har!) account and a must read for the like 7 people left who think our criminal justice system is just peachy.  <br/><br/>Moral: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever say an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46023809">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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