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    <about><![CDATA[Hi there, I’m Michelle and I’ll be your hostess for the duration of your stay in my little corner of GoodReads.<br/><br/>As you browse around you’ll see I am primarily interested in sharing my love of books with the world so if you are as infatuated as I am chime in and share your viewpoint(s).  I’ve created this space with the idea in mind that it will allow me the opportunity to become part of a larger community, one where we can all feel free to express our opinions freely and engage in conversation.  I am a big fun and humor kind of girl so you may see, when warranted, that tone in my posts. ☺<br/><br/>To give you a tiny glimpse of me personally, I live on the Virginia side of the Metro-DC area where I work for a private University that has campuses across the country.  By trade I’m an instructional designer, which means I design and construct distance learning courses and programs.  I’m also currently taking classes to learn how to be a copy editor.  Since childhood I’ve enjoyed writing and would adore nothing more than to switch professions to do something that inspires me.<br/><br/>I’m certain I’ve rambled on enough for you so if you would like to know anything more specific about my professional background please email me at michelle [at] <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://galleysmith.com">galleysmith.com</a> and I’ll be happy to share.<br/>]]></about>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:24:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I’m going to start off saying that I really wanted to find something positive to say about this book but honestly I can’t.  What didn’t I like about this story?  Though I’ve never been a fan of child abuse and/or mental illness stories it wasn’t the fact that Listen was darker than the ave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79621640">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6404894-bad-apple">Bad Apple (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/73699.Laura_Ruby">Laura Ruby</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:19:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Bad Apple was fairly predictable in it’s plot in almost all areas with the exception of the most important one — the did she or didn’t she reveal.  The back and forth of each step down the path to that ultimate revelation was well done.  I personally didn’t know if the affair happened, at wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79621513">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:15:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A quirky read The Brain Finds a Leg will certainly entertain middle grade children.  Filled with wit and humor Chatterton puts his main characters in outlandish circumstances via a most fun and fantastical way.  From thieving kangaroos to stalking birds then back to an alligator that thinks she’s ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79621393">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:11:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Let me start by saying that I’ve always loved me some bad boy and boy does Patch ever fit that bill!   What this means is Fitzpatrick would have had to have dropped the ball in such an epic way to have not drawn me into this story.  Patch would have had to have been entirely one dimensional in his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79621279">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5986471.Food_Girls_Other_Things_I_Can_t_Have">Food, Girls, &amp; Other Things I Can't Have (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/683191.Allen_Zadoff">Allen Zadoff</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:07:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Zadoff has written not only an entertaining and sometimes comical story but one of depth and heart.  Taking Andrew from geek to chic in ten seconds flat the reader is brought through a gambit of emotions — self loathing, fear, love, discontent, empathy, distrust and much more.  Rolled all together...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67358720">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:00:27 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Reading more like a collection of short stories than a novel Slayton has created a touching and intimate look at the life of her main character Jimmy and his family.  Transitioning from one year to the next using the central focus of one particular day (in this case Halloween) allows for each indivi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79620811">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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