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    <updated_at>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:16:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As soon as I get my Kindle I'm finishing this book. Loved it so far. About how our brains work. Fascinating research presented in a digestable way. So far I love it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:14:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is not enjoyable if you have no attention span. I know the author is an expert on Sesame Street now. But it jumped around and was so intimate about all these lives that I couldn't follow it. <br/><br/>I choose it for a book club I belong to that I have a tough time fitting in to. This was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/This%20book%20is%20not%20enjoyable%20if%20you%20have%20no%20attention%20span.%20I%20know%20the%20author%20is%20an%20expert%20on%20Sesame%20Street%20now.%20But%20it%20jumped%20around%20and%20was%20so%20intimate%20about%20all%20these%20lives%20that%20I%20couldn't%20follow%20it.%20%0A%0AI%20choose%20it%20for%20a%20book%20club%20I%20belong%20to%20that%20I%20have%20a%20tough%20time%20fitting%20in%20to.%20This%20was%20my%20attempt%20to%20find%20something%20we%20could%20all%20enjoy.%20%0A%0AI%20played%20Sesame%20Street%20music%20and%20part%20of%20an%20NPR%20interview%20that%20got%20me%20to%20buy%20the%20book.%20We%20ended%20up%20talking%20about%20the%20shows%20we%20watched%20as%20kids.%20It%20was%20ok.%0A%0ASummed%20up%20in%20one%20word%20the%20book%20is:%20tedious.%20Read%20the%20Wikipedia%20article%20and%20the%20Dian%20Rheam%20interview%20and%20you're%20good%20to%20go.%20He's%20a%20great%20interview,%20esp.%20where%20he%20reads%20from%20the%20actual%20script%20about%20Mr.%20Hooper's%20death.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love_One_Woman_s_Search_for_Everything_Across_Italy_India_and_Indonesia">Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11679.Elizabeth_Gilbert">Elizabeth Gilbert</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:33:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm in tears as I read the last chapter of the book I started many months ago - Eat, Pray, Love. My sister says it's too personal, but for me, it's so filling. To know what another person's head and heart are. Someone who has been through something like what I've gone through. Someone who knows the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I'm%20in%20tears%20as%20I%20read%20the%20last%20chapter%20of%20the%20book%20I%20started%20many%20months%20ago%20-%20Eat,%20Pray,%20Love.%20My%20sister%20says%20it's%20too%20personal,%20but%20for%20me,%20it's%20so%20filling.%20To%20know%20what%20another%20person's%20head%20and%20heart%20are.%20Someone%20who%20has%20been%20through%20something%20like%20what%20I've%20gone%20through.%20Someone%20who%20knows%20the%20journey%20and%20is%20honest%20about%20exactly%20what%20that%20journey%20looks%20like%20to%20her.%20She%20does%20not%20shy%20away%20from%20the%20depths%20or%20as%20Annie%20Dillard%20says,%20she%20stalked%20the%20gaps.%20The%20gaps%20are%20where%20all%20life%20thrives.%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20read%20this%20book%20ravenously,%20then%20I%20stopped,%20not%20wanting%20to%20finish%20it.%20I%20devoured%20the%20first%20two%20chapters%20on%20pleasure%20and%20spirituality.%20Then%20I%20paused%20at%20the%20chapters%20on%20love.%20Just%20like%20in%20life.%20I%20get%20to%20that%20place%20and%20I%20pause.%20I%20lost%20interest.%20I%20didn't%20really%20want%20to%20fully%20go%20there%20with%20her.%20%0D%0A%0D%0AToday%20I%20read%20to%20the%20end%20as%20she%20slowly%20let%20love%20in%20again.%20She%20has%20an%20ending%20that%20I%20want%20too%20-%20a%20happy%20second%20marriage.%20(Bj%20asks%20what's%20taking%20me%20so%20long).%20Which%20isn't%20as%20much%20of%20an%20ending%20as%20a%20new%20beginning.%20One%20that%20I'm%20contemplating%20too%20-%20even%20with%20all%20of%20its%20tangles,%20and%20there%20are%20tangles.%0D%0A%0D%0AShe%20speaks%20of%20a%20painful%20time%20where%20she%20carefully%20cleansed%20her%20own%20mind%20and%20heart%20over%20many%20days%20of%20solitude,%20and%20she%20said...%0D%0A%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%22When%20all%20this%20was%20finished,%20I%20was%20empty.%20Nothing%20was%20fighting%20in%20my%20mind%20anymore.%20I%20looked%20into%20my%20heart,%20at%20my%20own%20goodness,%20and%20I%20saw%20its%20capacity.%20I%20saw%20that%20my%20heart%20was%20not%20even%20nearly%20full,%20not%20even%20after%20having%20taken%20in%20and%20tended%20to%20all%20those%20calamitous%20urchins%20of%20sorrow%20and%20anger%20and%20shame;%20my%20heart%20could%20easily%20have%20received%20and%20forgiven%20even%20more.%20Its%20love%20was%20infinite.%20I%20knew%20then%20that%20this%20is%20how%20God%20loves%20us%20all%20and%20receives%20us%20all...Because%20if%20even%20one%20broken%20and%20limited%20human%20being%20could%20experience%20even%20one%20such%20episode%20of%20absolute%20forgiveness%20and%20acceptance%20of%20her%20own%20self,%20then%20imagine%20--%20just%20imagine!%20--%20what%20God,%20in%20all%20His%20eternal%20compassion,%20can%20forgive%20and%20accept.%22%0D%0A%0D%0AHer%20journey%20makes%20me%20want%20to%20begin%20my%20own.%20A%20time%20with%20no%20responsibilities%20other%20than%20healing%20and%20experiencing.%20Who%20gets%20that%3F%20A%20time%20out.%20I%20guess%20I%20first%20need%20to%20become%20a%20New%20York%20Times%20bestselling%20author.%20There%20are%20so%20many%20stories%20that%20I'm%20not%20sure%20I'd%20have%20the%20courage%20to%20remember,%20let%20alone%20tell.%20%0D%0A%0D%0AI'm%20sure%20my%20own%20experiences%20endear%20this%20book%20to%20me%20more%20than%20it%20would%20others.%20It's%20well-written%20in%20that%20she%20so%20astutely%20describes%20matters%20of%20the%20heart.%20And%20to%20do%20it%20in%20a%20way%20that%20we%20don't%20feel%20sorry%20for%20her.%20That%20is%20an%20art.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential_Adventures_in_the_Culinary_Underbelly">Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (updated edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1124.Anthony_Bourdain">Anthony Bourdain</a>]]></action_text>
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