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    <updated_at>Wed, 27 May 2009 19:24:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love the lightness and compact clarity of Calvino. It's been a million years since I read this, but I remember pieces of it well, the clever absurdity of it all, and it sent me off on a Calvino marathon that lasted a couple of years.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:40:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've come to expect a certain popular story-telling structure from best-seller non fiction, but this book takes a decidedly drier approach than I imagined it would. It's an honest, academically researched, meticulously laid out history. <br/><br/>While generally interesting, there were definitely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54241343">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:35:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Rereading this one with Ella as a good night book. She's entranced, and so am I.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a blast to read. Super engaging, lovely in all regards. Not free of sadness, but still easy, with a linear, cinematic storyline, compelling but not particularly complex characters, and a fantastic historical setting. Altogether satisfying; this is candy, but it's really really good candy.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:33:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The first half of this book was profoundly disturbing. Stuff I already sort of half knew about the arrogance and idealist blindness of the post 9-11 Bush White House was confirmed, and much worse, more childish, more inexcusable incompetence was revealed. It's a tragedy, clearly. The second half sor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53449141">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:10:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book touches on dreamy fantasy in interesting and playful ways - a little trendy in that we're-all-doing-magical-realism-now way, but it works. The playfulness of the magic is an interesting contrast to the brutality and sadness of the World War II Ukraine scenes. It's ambitious and interesting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53448828">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:03:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written biography, with a great narrative, and an enormous amount of information. I put it down with a better sense of who Lincoln was, and what our country was. Interesting to see all the parallels in personal bearing and political intuition to our current President.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:08:34 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I wrote my undergrad thesis on this - absolutely loved it. Got to study with Basia Miller too! (she's the translator on this edition).]]></body>
        
    
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