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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:42:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Possessing The Secret of Joy is a powerful book about the traditions, fears and emotion surrounding the practice of female circumcision in certain tribes in Africa.  It deals effectively with the oppression of women, and the general atmosphere of misogyny surrounding the practise.  In this aspect it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82613836">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:30:03 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved this book!  I was gripped from the outset, despite the fact that the action is pretty slow to occur.  The Secret History tells of a bunch of elite rich kids at a state University taught by the mysterious and enigmatic Julian in the ways of Greek and Latin.  The tightly knit studen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82429685">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:54:16 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This tale of a bunch of teenage boys who's entire adolescence revolves around the mysterious Lisbon girls living down their street is a beautiful one, full of the quirks of adolescence.  As the boys gather snippets of information and artefacts from the girls, the girls' unhappiness at the strictness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82018484">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:57:18 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The Stone Diaries is a really good read, beautifully written, and exceptionally moving.  It tells of the life of Daisy Goodwill, born in surprise on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, until her death in a Nursing Home in Florida.  Daisy leads a decent life that is somehow not quite her own, and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81681666">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:01:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Wow, what a mission.  I have to say, I just don't get this book.  For a novel of incredible length, it certainly wasn't boring or particularly arduous.  But Vikram Seth's easy conversational style throughout the novel meant that every event, be it tragedy or great joy, was dealt with in the same eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80792129">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:34:15 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is absolutely wonderful.  I'd read it before a few years ago, and was itching to get my hands on it again.  I'm not sure exactly why it's so great - fantastic characterisation, a hugely twisting and turning plot, hilariously funny, consistently surprising...it has it all.<br/><br/>Michea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77098580">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4836.Fury">Fury (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3299.Salman_Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:13:25 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's quite a while since I read a book that turned out to be this bizarre.  Fury starts as so many books in the list seem to, with a middle aged chap suffering an existential crisis about his career, family and life choices, and descends into a continent crossing ludicrous farce. <br/><br/>I have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76836950">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1057293.The_Twins">The Twins (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16278.Tessa_de_Loo">Tessa de Loo</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:35:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Yet another war novel, this book focusses on the fortunes of twins, Lotte and Anna, who are taken to live apart when their parents die.  Reared from the age of 6 in separate countries, they follow quite different paths as the Second World War consumes Europe.  Years later, when they are old women, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75901588">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/468619.Looking_for_the_Possible_Dance">Looking for the Possible Dance (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/619104.A_L_Kennedy">A.L. Kennedy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:04:33 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure whether young Scottish authors are a little over represented in the list, or whether it's just skewed towards the kind of books I can find in a charity shop up here.  Either way, A.L. Kennedy is one of the above.  Looking for the possible dance is the story of Margaret, a university edu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74058439">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578489.Birdsong">Birdsong (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4229.Sebastian_Faulks">Sebastian Faulks</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:50:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was my second reading of Birdsong, and I expected to be less stunned, less appalled, and less involved in this masterpiece of a novel.  I couldn't have been more wrong.  Even on second reading, Birdsong retains huge power as a novel.  It serves as a hugely important reminder of the near past, o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73491486">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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