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          <body><![CDATA[So much I could say, but it's probably been said elsewhere by someone less sleepy. Totally compelling and thought-provoking themes of the relationship between intelligence and moral judgment, gender and power, and human nature. Also wonderfully rendered characters, extreme drama, and general awesome...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79898574">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:59:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5886131.Shadow_Magic">Shadow Magic (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1036925.Jaida_Jones">Jaida Jones</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:32:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Gets three stars because of the lovely writing, often elegantly handled themes, fun setting (fake Japan FTW!), and Kouje, who was just super compelling and deserves the Samwise Gamgee award for being a fantastic servant character in a fantasy novel.<br/><br/>An enjoyable read, but I think Jones an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79899055">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:49:30 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Started this novel in April and just had to finish it. It's Le Guin's first novel and it's like Tolkien in space with an anthropologist protagonist.<br/><br/>The charm lies not so much in the plot but in the things that happen along the way. Parts are beautiful, others are beautifully creepy (ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70289654">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:35:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It is very good! Much of the advice is more about the writing lifestyle and/or has to do with writing realistic/autobiographical fiction, but I still remember enjoying greatly and getting a lot out of it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:39:51 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I saw your review and thought, &quot;How strange - this person seems to have read a completely different book from me.&quot;<br/><br/>Then I realized that, indeed, you have read a completely different book from me. The ski slope story appears to be from Grace (Eventually), not Traveling Mercies. They do all have nearly identical covers, so your mistake is understandable.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10890.Traveling_Mercies_Some_Thoughts_on_Faith">Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7113.Anne_Lamott">Anne Lamott</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:27:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Anne Lamott is one of those very special writers whose books make you feel like you've just spent a five-day bus tour with them, listening to them tell wacky and tragic stories, at the end of which you will declare one another best of friends, exchange phone numbers, and promise to meet up again for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78668240">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29486.Candy_Girl_A_Year_in_the_Life_of_an_Unlikely_Stripper">Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16575.Diablo_Cody">Diablo Cody</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:34:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Definitely a popcorn book - short, fluffy, and very very addictive.<br/><br/>The writing was almost overwhelmingly cute and colorful (it was after all written by the lady who wrote Juno) but the voice grew on me after a while, and there were some extremely funny lines. (&quot;Grizzly eyeballed my ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78665640">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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