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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:29:34 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Life in Seven Mistakes by Susan Johnson is a delicious black comedy, woven around the phenomenon inflicted on all of us whose parents have retired to the so-called Sunshine State: the Dreaded Family Christmas at Surfers Paradise.  Elizabeth Barton, the central character, is a baby boomer wracked by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Life%20in%20Seven%20Mistakes%20by%20Susan%20Johnson%20is%20a%20delicious%20black%20comedy,%20woven%20around%20the%20phenomenon%20inflicted%20on%20all%20of%20us%20whose%20parents%20have%20retired%20to%20the%20so-called%20Sunshine%20State:%20the%20Dreaded%20Family%20Christmas%20at%20Surfers%20Paradise.%20%20Elizabeth%20Barton,%20the%20central%20character,%20is%20a%20baby%20boomer%20wracked%20by%20guilt,%20resentment,%20self-imposed%20martyrdom%20and%20suppressed%20anger:%20she%E2%80%99s%20got%20a%20commission%20to%20finish%20for%20the%20very%20first%20solo%20international%20exhibition%20of%20her%20ceramics%20-%20but%20instead%20of%20preparing%20for%20it,%20she%E2%80%99s%20traipsed%20up%20to%20the%20Gold%20Coast%20for%20Christmas%20and%20her%20parents%E2%80%99%2050th%20wedding%20anniversary.%20%20%0D%0A%0D%0AElizabeth%20sits%20freezing%20on%20the%20sofa%20thinking%20that%20her%20worst%20nightmare%20would%20be%20to%20be%20trapped%20forever%20in%20a%20room%20with%20her%20family.%20%20Four%20days%20is%20her%20limit%20and%20this%20is%20the%20fag%20end%20of%20the%20third%20day%20of%20her%20annual%20ten-day%20pilgrimage%20from%20Melbourne.%20%20It%20is%20the%20first%20holiday%20in%20the%20new%20Gold%20Coast%20penthouse%E2%80%A6%20%20%20(p5)%0D%0A%0D%0ATen%20days,%20and%20she%E2%80%99s%20not%20even%20warm,%20because%20her%20irascible%20father%20insists%20on%20running%20the%20AirCon%20to%20the%20max!%20%20Why%20is%20she%20doing%20it,%20risking%20not%20finishing%20a%20piece%20for%20the%20exhibition%20that%20starts%20in%20New%20York%20in%20the%20second%20week%20of%20January%3F%3F%20%20Because%20of%20%20%E2%80%98duty,%20guilt%20and%20some%20unfulfilled%20longing,%20a%20never%20quite%20extinguished%20urge%20to%20try%20to%20make%20good%20of%20the%20mess%20of%20the%20past%20%E2%80%98%20and%20because%20%E2%80%98her%20first%20family%20exerts%20a%20troubling%20pull%20on%20her%20heart%20,%20and%20she%20suffers%20nostalgia%20for%20some%20unspecified%20moment,%20now%20lost.%E2%80%99%20(p6)%0D%0A%0D%0AThis%20book%20had%20me%20hooked%20from%20the%20very%20first%20page,%20and%20it%20gets%20better%20and%20better%20with%20each%20successive%20chapter.%20The%20dissection%20of%20the%20modern%20family%20is%20witty%20and%20sly;%20it%20entraps%20the%20reader%20into%20identifying%20with%20the%20Bartons%20en%20famille%20and%20then%20repudiating%20them%20in%20relief.%20%20%E2%80%98Oh,%20just%20like%20my%20family!%E2%80%99%20I%20kept%20thinking,%20and%20then%20%E2%80%98Oh,%20at%20least%20my%20family%E2%80%99s%20not%20as%20bad%20as%20that!%E2%80%99%0D%0ATo%20see%20the%20rest%20of%20this%20review%20(which%20includes%20some%20spoilers)%20see%20http:%2F%2Fanzlitlovers.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F19%2Flife-in-seven-mistakes-by-susan-johnson%2F">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:21:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've just bought 2666 by Bolano  - it's a real brick! Have you read this one, Cynthia? ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:16:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Like most books of this era, this one is past its use-by date. See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/the-railway-children-by-edith-nesbit/" title="http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/the-railway-children-by-edith-nesbit/">http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/1...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6832784-the-apple">The Apple: Based on the Herman Rosenblat Holocaust Love Story (Perfect Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1999305.Penelope_Holt">Penelope Holt</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:37:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a woeful book.  See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/the-apple-by-penelope-j-holt/" title="http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/the-apple-by-penelope-j-holt/">http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/1...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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