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    <updated_at>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:47:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6234369.We_Were_Here">We Were Here (Library Binding)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/204966.Matt_de_la_Pena">Matt de la Pena</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:58:36 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6407014-stitches">Stitches: A Memoir (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/104017.David_Small">David Small</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5997978.Julian_Comstock_A_Story_of_22nd_Century_America">Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27276.Robert_Charles_Wilson">Robert Charles Wilson</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6433752-the-lacuna">The Lacuna (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3541.Barbara_Kingsolver">Barbara Kingsolver</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4952.What_Is_the_What">What Is the What (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3371.Dave_Eggers">Dave Eggers</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:41:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book totally made me rethink my position on Dave Eggers. I really hated <em> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius </em> but when not writing about himself Eggers is very effective.  This is an incredibly moving, engrossing true story about one of the Lost Boys from Sudan, and Eggers clear, simple p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79430354">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764646.Parable_of_the_Talents">Parable of the Talents (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29535.Octavia_E_Butler">Octavia E. Butler</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:34:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
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