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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:04:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Most critics mention Richard Price's superior ability to write dialogue (he wrote Clockers and also works on HBO's The Wire) and they're right.  This was a good crime novel, set in NYC's Lower East Village among the hipsters, projects, and cops.  Not anything earth-shattering, but enjoyable to read ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60778324">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:02:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I think the thing that amazes me most about Jhumpa Lahiri is her ability to start from a very narrow space - Bengali immigrant families and their second-generation children, Boston, Ivy League, etc - and create characters and stories that are so detailed and wise. I wish that she'd venture a bit fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60778385">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:52:24 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My friend Adrienne recommended this one, and I'm so glad that she did!  It's a fantastic guide to natural childbirth - I don't think it should be the only book on birth that you read, but it provides so much more information on the emotional and mental dimensions of birth than any other book (or cla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60778553">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:49:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:43:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Really really well researched and quite dense with facts, but an awesome introduction to not only Gram but the rock and country music scenes of the late 60s/early 70s - including the Byrds, Dylan, the Stones, and of course, the Flying Burrito Brothers.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:31:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love short stories and there are some great ones and just good ones in this book.  &quot;Puppy&quot; is the one that I can't get out of my head, and &quot;Vampires in the Lemon Grove&quot; is the one that I wish would take its place more often.  ]]></body>
        
    
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