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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:04:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A lovely and poetic book about memory, experience, and the creation of an ad-hoc family. Ogawa's story, as translated by Stephen Snyder, is elegantly wrought, a haunting yet charming story about the relationship between a perceptive housekeeper, her precocious son, and an aging Professor with an odd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82353102">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:45:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:43:08 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:38:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It was uber-NH! NH to the 1000th degree :)]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:24:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Oh, Augusten Burroughs, why do I love you? You infuriate me sometimes, but I just can’t quit you.<br/><br/>“You Better Not Cry” is not laugh-out-loud hysterical, but rather chuckle-in-the-back-of-your-throat cynicism laced with pull-at-the-heart-strings-despite-yourself sentimentality. The f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80095353">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:22:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[“The Humbling” is yet another of Roth’s seemingly perennial short novellas. Yet, Roth did it again; he packed more into 140 pages than most authors can manage to fill in 410 pages. This new novel centers on Simon Axler, a veteran stage actor who loses his ability to act – even as himself, or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80095271">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:21:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[“The Piano Teacher” is a gripping and incredibly well-told novel about love and survival in wartime. Lee’s exceptionally researched story unfolds in Hong Kong both before and after WWII, detailing little-known aspects of the expat community (Brits, Canadians, Americans, and Eurasians) and thei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80095212">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:21:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Oh my, my, my! I really don’t even know where to begin with a review of “Last Night at Twisted River.” Was it great? No. Was it good? Yeah. Was it bad? Certainly not. It was … well, it was John Irving being uber-John Irving with all of the “usual suspects” making a cameo appearance: <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65117315">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:09:21 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lamb has such a gift for interesting and compelling POVs, as evidenced in his first two books. I think that's why I found &quot;Hour&quot; such a supreme disappointment. I, too, hope he finds his narrative stride again.<br/><br/>Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Amy!]]></body>
        
    
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