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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5826.Bel_Canto">Bel Canto (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2531.Ann_Patchett">Ann Patchett</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:13:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[How can a book about a botched kidnapping attempt by South American terrorists cause one to smile and feel &quot;okay&quot; about the human condition?  Why would a reader find herself recommending this &quot;violent, yet gentle&quot; read? Perhaps it's enough to say that in other works of literature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74957486">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:28:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading your review, Bea!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:29:31 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You and I assigned this book the same rating--I much prefer FHB's A Little Princess.  Superior plot, characters, everything!  I hope you're having a good year.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578367.Old_Goriot">Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/228089.Honor_de_Balzac">Honoré de Balzac</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:23:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Within the first three pages, my French ancestry was confirmed as I recognized that Balzac and I share an intense curiosity about the human condition.  The dialogue is so electric, the description of character and setting so detailed, at times I felt as though I were attending a performance of a sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74025433">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5899779.Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies">Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/169377.Seth_Grahame_Smith">Seth Grahame-Smith</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:00:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:52:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I cannot wait to hear what you think.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135611.Shakespeare_The_World_As_Stage">Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7.Bill_Bryson">Bill Bryson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:30:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Bill Bryson eloquently and sometimes humorously shows us just how little we know about the man Shakespeare and the times in which he lived.  The paradox is that examination of the small body of evidence regarding Shakespeare's birth, education, life, and death does not lessen the power of the man's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64444488">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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