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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:14:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An interesting memoir about the values she learned from her mother. Feminist in a very non-strident way. It's a very quick read with large type and big margins.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1009997.Peter_Reinhart_s_Whole_Grain_Bread_New_Techniques_Extraordinary_Flavor">Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Bread: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4104.Peter_Reinhart">Peter Reinhart</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:12:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed his memoir and discussion of working with whole grains - and I can now make 100% whole wheat bread that's not a brick!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2776527.Traffic_Why_We_Drive_the_Way_We_Do">Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/326282.Tom_Vanderbilt">Tom Vanderbilt</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:10:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:10:14 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I took a class with Kaku back at CCNY called &quot;The Physics of Science Fiction&quot;. He's definitely a character!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:16:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I really got a kick out of the dogs - Alvin and Mohammad.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2740964.On_Being_Certain_Believing_You_Are_Right_Even_When_You_re_Not">On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3124326.Robert_Burton">Robert  Burton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:20:11 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3912602.The_Revolution_Business_Book_Five_of_the_Merchant_Princes">The Revolution Business: Book Five of the Merchant Princes (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8794.Charles_Stross">Charles Stross</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:17:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Stross continues to build on his Merchant Princes series, and this one lets quite a few cats out of the bag in his version of the multiple universe concept.<br/><br/>The intrigue continues to build in all three well-developed worlds, and the book rushes towards a surprising and chilling cliffhange...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75829185">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:12:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An entertaining view into the life of one of my heroes. Julia Child is revealed to be a dedicated, down-to-earth person who led an extraordinary life. It's a pity she never said much about earlier chapters of her life, including her time in the OSS during WW II.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[In this book, Ruth Reichl reveals herself to be a more interesting and sympathetic person that she appeared to be in her earlier memoirs. Her accounts of the amazing disguises she used to dine anonymously at restaurants that would normally lavish a critic with extra attention is delightful, and she ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75828372">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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