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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/419363.The_Merchants_War">The Merchants' War (Merchant Princes, Book 4)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8794.Charles_Stross">Charles Stross</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:29:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Enjoyed this, and will continue with the series, but I could wish that each book didn't end right in the middle of the action.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:28:10 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[God, I love this book.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384457.Agnes_and_the_Hitman">Agnes and the Hitman (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19005.Jennifer_Crusie">Jennifer Crusie</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:03:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I hadn't planned on reading this book, because although I'm a huge Crusie fan, I hadn't enjoyed her other collaboration with Bob Mayer at all.  But a friend told me this one was much better, so I got it, and in fact, I enjoyed it quite a bit.  Not as much perhaps as my all-time Crusie favorites, lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20hadn't%20planned%20on%20reading%20this%20book,%20because%20although%20I'm%20a%20huge%20Crusie%20fan,%20I%20hadn't%20enjoyed%20her%20other%20collaboration%20with%20Bob%20Mayer%20at%20all.%20%20But%20a%20friend%20told%20me%20this%20one%20was%20much%20better,%20so%20I%20got%20it,%20and%20in%20fact,%20I%20enjoyed%20it%20quite%20a%20bit.%20%20Not%20as%20much%20perhaps%20as%20my%20all-time%20Crusie%20favorites,%20like%20_Faking%20It_,%20but%20well%20worth%20a%20read,%20especially%20if%20you%20can%20just%20treat%20the%20body%20count%20as%20cartoon%20violence.%20%20(There's%20often%20a%20dead%20body%20in%20a%20Crusie%20novel,%20but%20people%20aren't%20generally%20killed%20with%20quite%20as%20much%20abandon%20as%20they%20are%20in%20the%20Mayer%20collabs.)%20%20%0D%0A%0D%0AIn%20any%20case,%20recommended%20for%20Crusie%20fans,%20or%20anyone%20in%20the%20mood%20for%20a%20fun,%20fast-paced%20romp%20with%20a%20charming%20protagonist%20who%20cooks%20like%20a%20dream%20and%20loves%20feeding%20people.%20%20Plus,%20crazy%20wedding%20shenanigans!">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5979374.Leaving_India_My_Family_s_Journey_from_Five_Villages_to_Five_Continents">Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2739997.Minal_Hajratwala">Minal Hajratwala</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:02:49 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[&quot;Historians used to speak of 'push' and 'pull' as the main facors in migration, principles as basic to human motivation as warp and weft are to cloth....&quot;<br/><br/>So far, even though I normally find history dull and hard to read, am enjoying this.  In part because I know Minal, of cours...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/%22Historians%20used%20to%20speak%20of%20'push'%20and%20'pull'%20as%20the%20main%20facors%20in%20migration,%20principles%20as%20basic%20to%20human%20motivation%20as%20warp%20and%20weft%20are%20to%20cloth....%22%0D%0A%0D%0ASo%20far,%20even%20though%20I%20normally%20find%20history%20dull%20and%20hard%20to%20read,%20am%20enjoying%20this.%20%20In%20part%20because%20I%20know%20Minal,%20of%20course%20--%20it's%20impossible%20not%20to%20be%20aware%20of%20her%20as%20the%20person%20writing%20this%20memoir.%20%20But%20it's%20also%20smoothly-written%20and%20just%20plain%20interesting.%20%20Going%20to%20have%20my%20colonial%2Fpost-colonial%20students%20read%20Chapter%202,%20%22Cloth%22,%20I%20think%20--%20should%20give%20them%20a%20good%20sense%20both%20of%20what%20was%20happening%20with%20the%20cloth%20industry%20in%20England%2FIndia%20in%20early%20colonial%20days,%20and%20of%20why%20so%20many%20Indians%20chose%20to%20emigrate%20to%20the%20Caribbean.%0D%0A%0D%0AAlso%20(SPOILER%20ALERT),%20the%20end%20of%20the%20chapter%20made%20me%20cry.%0D%0A%0D%0A">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners">Magic for Beginners (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24902.Kelly_Link">Kelly Link</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:13:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Solid collection -- favorite stories, &quot;Stone Animals,&quot; &quot;Magic for Beginners,&quot; &quot;Lull.&quot;  Overall, sad.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen">Watchmen (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3961.Alan_Moore">Alan Moore</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:50:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[God, this is depressing.  The writing is good, as I remembered from the last time I read it a decade or so ago, but it's so insanely dark overall that I keep putting it down.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:56:24 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108940.The_Trouble_with_Diversity_How_We_Learned_to_Love_Identity_and_Ignore_Inequality">The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/63093.Walter_Benn_Michaels">Walter Benn Michaels</a>]]></action_text>
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