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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:47:37 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:33:49 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:26:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  It's a coming of age story with engagingly real eccentric characters.  The story takes place in the 50's and centers around a 15 year old girl and her family.  Her father is a painter and mother was once his nude model. The family moves every year so her father can be inspired by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77421552">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:15:16 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An interesting and original premise-this book centers on a young librarian with a troubled past who become institutionalized with depression and connects during a late night conversation with the prisoner in the adjoining room.  The beginning of the book was bleak and slow but the end was pretty int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75620601">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:42:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:41:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A quirky, entertaining and well written book.  The setting is an old mill town down south and the decaying neighborhood that once flourished.<br/><br/>Two woman's lives are intertwined by a husband's infidelity.  One of the women is working two jobs to hang onto her family's historic home, the oth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72793471">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:51:43 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A beautiful and important book.  One I think everyone should read.  Authentic and lovely.<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:50:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have to stop reading books based on blurbs on the dust jacket but Michael Cunningham described this book as &quot;lyrical, haunting and vividly written&quot; .<br/><br/>Not me-I found it to be disturbing, confusing and meandering.<br/><br/>Story kicks off in happyville, the idyllic magical chi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72371875">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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