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    <about><![CDATA[Children's author and poet from Australia. Knitter and collector of knitting, poetry and cooking books. Have firm belief that buying another cooking book equals having cooked a gourmet meal without even dirtying a saucepan. Read knitting blogs under same delusion.  ]]></about>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:12:48 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love Siobhan Dowd's work - such sadness that this writer is dead. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:11:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178569.Jane_and_Prudence">Jane and Prudence (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/104015.Barbara_Pym">Barbara Pym</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:10:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love Barabara Pym - have done since I first stumbled across her writing when I was in my early twenties, so it was a real treat to find a book of hers I hadn't previously read. Yay to the library! Great characters, lovely Englishness pervading the book and some really sharp little observations of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73814646">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:07:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've been familiar with Maurice's poetry for ages but it's just great to have a book by this laconic very Australian voice. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:27:59 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Still on my marathon Robin Hobb reading splurge. The six books from the Farseer Trilogy and the Tawny Man have kept me engaged from the very start. I miss Burrich, FitzChivalry and the Fool now that I've finished them, and that, my friends, is a sign of an excellent reading journey to me! ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:14:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:59:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is glorious poetry - the language is simple and direct, but the poems are often mysterious, hinting at meanings, ambivalent and prayer-like. I've memorised two of the poems in My Year of Remembering Poems and they are like talismans. It did occur to me that perhaps one has to have lived a long ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66931726">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:51:11 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[See my review of Assassin's Apprentice. Love, love, love these books. ]]></body>
        
    
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