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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134156.The_Bronx_Is_Burning_TV_tie_in_1977_Baseball_Politics_and_the_Battle_for_the_Soul_of_a_City">The Bronx Is Burning (TV tie-in): 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16492.Jonathan_Mahler">Jonathan Mahler</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:05:21 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed reading this book but I think it sort of depends on the reader having an interest (and basic knowledge about): New York City politics, the media business, and the NY Yankees. Otherwise, foreshadowing of Rupert Murdoch, or the Cuomo/Koch mayoral race falls flat. Also, I found the last ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79986305">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13529.March">March (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/211268.Geraldine_Brooks">Geraldine Brooks</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:15:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Excellent novel set in the American Civil War. This book tells the story of Mr. March, the absent patriarch from Little Women, and so I've resisted reading it because I've never read Alcott's book.<br/><br/>However, once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. The story is told in March's voice, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77743369">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:09:00 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Fables keeps trucking along, getting even more suspenseful after the end of the great war with the Emperor. Amazing how Willingham makes me care about minor characters and cruel how he then kills them off. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1643206.Hieronymus_White">Hieronymus White (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/165992.Jeff_Moss">Jeff Moss</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:33:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Longish (80 pages) kids book in rhyme about a bird who thought he was always right. Surprisingly affecting with ideas that are somewhat beyond my first grader's emotional range. SPOILER: Hieronymus thinks it's important that all birds fly as children but his granddaughter is born with a bum wing and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77489713">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:30:38 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Skimmed this a bit, but it's an enjoyable history of handwriting. As my kids are learning to print, I wanted to learn about the origins of cursive and some of the idiosyncratic decisions made in developing it (upper case Q looking like a 2, for example). Also, in the last chapter, the author mention...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77489526">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2850058.The_Elephant_Wish">The Elephant Wish (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1237855.Lou_Berger">Lou Berger</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:38:18 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the first picture book I've read that reminded me of the writing of Kelly Link. There's an odd dream logic to it, and lots of specific details mixed in with the fantastic premise. Also, I found it kind of spooky and was glad that it resolved.]]></body>
        
    
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    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77276034</link>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:24:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Review like written by Yoda. Or Yiddish. Yoda-ish?]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7526.The_Blind_Side_Evolution_of_a_Game">The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/776.Michael_Lewis">Michael Lewis</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:43:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Beautiful book about the evolution of the left tackle in football and the biography of a young talent, Michael Oher. <br/><br/>The left tackle is the guy who protects the quarterback on the side that most right handers are not facing, i.e. the blind side. In the early 1980s, this guy was being pai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77273416">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2196823.Apocalypse_Nerd">Apocalypse Nerd (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5127.Peter_Bagge">Peter Bagge</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77273309</link>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:27:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Peter Bagge has lost his mind. A comic exploration of what would happen if Seattle was nuked by the North Koreans begins and ends, pretty much with normal people killing each other. Not desperately afraid people, not self-defense, just killing people because they are off the wall and there are no au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77273309">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337132.Flashforward">Flashforward (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25883.Robert_J_Sawyer">Robert J. Sawyer</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:19:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Conceptually interesting but with clunky characterization. The murder plot had an especiAlly dopey resolution, I thought. <br/><br/>Kind of fun to read it now, however since it's set in 2009 with the Large Hadron Collider going online. ]]></body>
        
    
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