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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 04:21:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6589728-breaking-the-jewish-code">Breaking the Jewish Code: 12 Secrets that Will Transform Your Life, Family, Health, and Finances (Kindle Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/64472.Perry_Stone">Perry Stone</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:37:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm looking forward to reading this one.  There is an intriguing chapter called &quot;The Secrets of the Hebrew Alphabet and Words.&quot;  With my love of languages and words, I am totally sucked in.  I can hardly wait!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259724.Revolutionary_Parenting">Revolutionary Parenting (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/32052.George_Barna">George Barna</a>]]></action_text>
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          <body><![CDATA[This parenting book takes a different approach.  Rather than merely espousing a philosophy or promoting a technique, the author and his team of researchers have quantified what is a good result of the task of parenting.  In their estimation, optimum parenting results in nothing less than a &quot;spi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78402959">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260675.The_Prodigal_God_Recovering_the_Heart_of_the_Christian_Faith">The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/847789.Timothy_Keller">Timothy Keller</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:18:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This fantastic book revisits the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Keller's treatment of the parable is deep and practical.  I would have given it 5 stars except that I found the last sections on community rather weak.  I'd recommend this one to anyone who has been in the Church for a long time and needs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78402771">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:12:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I picked this one because Good Reading Magazine gave it 5 out of 5 stars and crowned it with the promising label: &quot;hilarious&quot;  I enjoyed it, but it wasn't worthy of 5 stars in my opinion.  It was quirky, amusing, and enjoyable, but not &quot;hilarious.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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