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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:32:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:08:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am reading this because it's a key item at Borders.  I can't vouch for the content yet.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:44:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:43:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed this book but did not finish--maybe later!  Got a little burnt out by reading too many Marie Antoinette books in a row.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:38:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[All fantasy that I've read up to now has been the kind with magic and wizards.  It was refreshing to me to enter this completely new setting. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:44:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The very first book to be awarded the Newbery Medal.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11507.My_Name_Is_Asher_Lev">My Name Is Asher Lev (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7385.Chaim_Potok">Chaim Potok</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed thinking about art's meaning and purpose as I read this story.  This offers an interesting contrast with another Potok book, the Chosen; in Asher Lev, a Hasidic man chooses to follow &quot;the world&quot; over his Hasidic traditions; in the Chosen, a Hasidic man chooses to stay within his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73238165">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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