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    <updated_at>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:23:07 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The author has invented and peopled a mythical but absolutely plausible island, Sanjania, and this book &quot;collects&quot; pamphlets and writings from various Sanjanian authors. The individual pieces are mostly very sweet, and I was fascinated by the invented patois and slang.  It's a really big c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4862320">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:19:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A fascinating New-York-Times-eye view of the city from WWII to the mid-eighties.  Gelb was in the middle of all things cultural and all things New York.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:20:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My uncle and I were the family's biggest child prodigies and bookworms; he gave me this title when I was a kid and he was working in a bookstore.  (These days, he's a librarian and I'm a book publicist, so we're still the family bookworms.)  I haven't reread this one in a while, but I remember findi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3273872">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232576.Harriet_the_Spy">Harriet the Spy (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2560.Louise_Fitzhugh">Louise Fitzhugh</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:44:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I started reading early and started reading beyond my age level very quickly, so I was pretty much beyond children's books way before I was done being a child.  Sometimes it seems like I went directly from Dr. Seuss to Grimm's Fairy Tales and then on to adult books.  But this was one children's book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3271888">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:33:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm a little more than halfway through this memoir.  I thought it would cover the author's college years in the '60s, and how a nice midwestern girl discovered sex/drugs/rock n' roll.  Instead, it focuses on her post-college years working at the American Academy of Poets and the beginning of her car...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3271284">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:21:15 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[You folks will see over time that I'm stingy with five-star ratings, but this book absolutely deserves five if not more.  This book explains the demise of several societies and it was eye-opening to see how much of it came down to environmental factors.  (I think this book made more of an environmen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3270543">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125799.Quitting_the_Nairobi_Trio">Quitting the Nairobi Trio (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/72381.Jim_Knipfel">Jim Knipfel</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:05:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've wanted to read this one for a while because I like Knipfel and I love the title.  In fact, I think I had heard of this book and loved the title before I read any of Knipfel's books.  (The title refers to a rather surreal skit from the old Ernie Kovacs show -- though I'm not old enough to have s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3270029">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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