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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:27 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:26:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I haven't grown up much, but the fairy tales sure have.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:44:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It had me at &quot;It was truly a night to dismember.&quot;]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5217060.The_Peep_Diaries_How_We_re_Learning_to_Love_Watching_Ourselves_and_Our_Neighbors">The  Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/140443.Hal_Niedzviecki">Hal Niedzviecki</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:03:20 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<br/>We're all following you online. And we don't care about you.<br/><br/>(I wish I'd read this before writing The Warhol Gang. The real world is always stranger than anything I can imagine.)]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1443836.The_View_from_the_Seventh_Layer">The View from the Seventh Layer (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16967.Kevin_Brockmeier">Kevin Brockmeier</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:20:43 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a book for writers, with language so careful and beautiful it's as if the book was transcribed by monks — fitting given Brockmeier has an angel's powers of observation. As for the subject matter of the stories, well, think Chris Adrian having coffee with Kelly Link in Italo Calvino's cafe,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/This%20is%20a%20book%20for%20writers,%20with%20language%20so%20careful%20and%20beautiful%20it's%20as%20if%20the%20book%20was%20transcribed%20by%20monks%20%E2%80%94%20fitting%20given%20Brockmeier%20has%20an%20angel's%20powers%20of%20observation.%20As%20for%20the%20subject%20matter%20of%20the%20stories,%20well,%20think%20Chris%20Adrian%20having%20coffee%20with%20Kelly%20Link%20in%20Italo%20Calvino's%20cafe,%20and%20you'll%20have%20an%20idea.%20Just%20a%20few%20examples:%0D%0A%0D%0A-%20A%20man%20finds%20God's%20overcoat%20and%20discovers%20people's%20prayers%20written%20on%20notes%20in%20the%20pockets.%0D%0A-%20Strange%20silences%20descend%20upon%20a%20city,%20and%20the%20inhabitants%20realize%20the%20city%20itself%20is%20trying%20to%20talk%20to%20them%20in%20morse%20code%0D%0A-%20A%20philosophy%20student%20learns%20why%20other%20philosophers%20stopped%20writing%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20had%20to%20think%20about%20reading%20itself%20in%20a%20different%20way%20when%20I%20encountered%20%22The%20Human%20Soul%20as%20a%20Rube%20Goldberg%20Device:%20A%20Choose%20Your%20Own%20Adventure%20Story,%22%20and%20the%20story%20about%20the%20city's%20morse%20code%20actually%20had%20me%20learning%20about%20morse%20code%20to%20figure%20out%20the%20city's%20message.%20A%20book%20that%20makes%20you%20think%3F%20Imagine%20that.%0D%0A%0D%0ASee%20also%20Brockmeier's%20The%20Brief%20History%20of%20the%20Dead,%20about%20a%20city%20populated%20by%20the%20souls%20of%20the%20dead,%20who%20exist%20only%20so%20long%20as%20the%20living%20remember%20them%20%E2%80%94%20but%20now%20there's%20only%20one%20person%20left%20alive%20on%20Earth.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733462.An_Arsonist_s_Guide_to_Writers_Homes_in_New_England">An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128556.Brock_Clarke">Brock Clarke</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14069.Throne_of_Jade">Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8730.Naomi_Novik">Naomi Novik</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:23:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89192.Century_Rain">Century Rain (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/51204.Alastair_Reynolds">Alastair Reynolds</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28876.His_Majesty_s_Dragon">His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8730.Naomi_Novik">Naomi Novik</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:22:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Checked out the free PDF online and it hooked me. Fun stuff, but I have a weakness for dragon stories.]]></body>
        
    
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