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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:40:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Well, I got this for my husband for Valentines Day and ended up having to pull away from reading it one night at work so I could take it home and wrap it. He finished it up in one day and so now I'm about to dive into it full-force. &quot;It reminded me of falling in love with you&quot; he wrote on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15908523">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:32:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<div style="font-style: italic">This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15618330">click here.</a></div>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50453.Hot_Water_Music">Hot Water Music (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13275.Charles_Bukowski">Charles Bukowski</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:29:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lots of short stories about living hard and fast with associates that include loose/crazy women and downright criminal buddies. Bukowski has a very calloused, often humorous take of life and art, but portrays it with care and beauty, even when he's describing the morose -- and that's why you have to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6443887">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113429.No_One_Belongs_Here_More_Than_You_Stories">No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/65678.Miranda_July">Miranda July</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:22:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Miranda July's my homegirl. This book is chock-full of weirdo short stories with offbeat characters. Even with all of the crazy sex/relationship scenarios in the short stories, I didn't feel totally creeped out by it. Something about Miranda's approach is very caring and sweet; never cold and harsh....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6444095">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:21:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I hate the saying &quot;it is what it is,&quot; but that's how I feel about this book. Apparently, McCarthy experienced every drawback to pregnancy known to woman, and was driven to write a book about it. But nothing's shocking. Even the fact that she got really fat. Cos preggers women usually do ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6444474">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195686.Soundtrack_Short_Stories_1989_1996">Soundtrack: Short Stories 1989-1996 (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/93963.Jessica_Abel">Jessica Abel</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:20:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Got this on a whim at Quimbys and read it the same night b/c it was so good. Collection of comics with a focus on the Chicago punk/indie scene in the 90s. Highly recommended for people into comics/graphic novels (duh), Chicago underground, feminism, indie rock, art scene, etc. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233745.How_Sassy_Changed_My_Life_A_Love_Letter_to_the_Greatest_Teen_Magazine_of_All_Time">How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/136790.Kara_Jesella">Kara Jesella</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:19:05 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Just started this today. People on the train were noticing -- prolly cos it's a magazine-size book (appropriately). So far, so good. I'm just now reading about Jane Pratt's involvement in the founding. Where are you these days, Jane?! We need you!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62953.Ghost_World">Ghost World</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5129.Daniel_Clowes">Daniel Clowes</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:17:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love the movie, so I figured I'd love the graph novel. I was right. BFFs Enid and Rebecca are bad ass, witty slacker-types who don't want to turn into their parents and either hate you or are obsessively intrigued by you. My kind of people. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:33:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Lemme borrow this, woman! This sounds like my life. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:28:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is funny b/c on myspace under fave books, I say something like, &quot;You won't catch me plowing through 'War and Peace' on a lazy Sunday Afternoon.&quot;<br/><br/>I know it's inevitable I'll have to do it someday so I'm not a total jerk.]]></body>
        
    
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