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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:42:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[One of the most beautiful things I've ever laid eyes on.<br/><br/>I think I can die happy now.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:40:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Wow.<br/><br/>I can't... y'know, I can't describe it. &quot;The personal lives of aging superheroes and their stories&quot; comes about as close as I can go.<br/><br/>I stole my copy from a friend a few years ago and just read it last year for the first time. Holy moley.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:39:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Don't read this book unless you've got Prozac handy. It's one of the most hauntingly beautiful tales of loneliness, family, failed relationships, superheroes, and peaches that you will EVER encounter. Chris Ware is a goddamn poet.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34072.Jimmy_Corrigan_The_Smartest_Kid_on_Earth" title="Jimmy Corrigan  The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware">Jimmy Corrigan</a> is not, in fact, the Smartest Kid on Earth,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11350771">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52585.Dreams">Dreams (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29671.Ezra_Jack_Keats">Ezra Jack Keats</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:31:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book didn't get me until the page where it shows the apartment building from the outside windows, with one window lit up with crazy marbled paper, the text proclaiming, &quot;And then someone started dreaming.&quot;<br/><br/>I now know why there is an Ezra Jack Keats award.<br/><br/>Beautif...]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570723.Dear_Juno">Dear Juno (Picture Puffins)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/207128.Soyung_Pak">Soyung Pak</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:29:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Again, I'm jaded and blah blah blah.<br/><br/>This book also wrought tears. I got choked up. It's really just about a Korean-American boy who writes picture-letters to his Korean grandmother, but GOLLY. I had to act like something got in my eye to save face.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/701644.The_Lion_and_the_Little_Red_Bird">The Lion and the Little Red Bird (Picture Puffins)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/250903.Elisa_Kleven">Elisa Kleven</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:27:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[All right, so I'm a hardened, jaded adult. It's tough to make me cry. Boyfriends, weddings, dead relatives - nothing does it anymore.<br/><br/>This book wrought tears. IT'S SO GOOD. It made me believe that there's a squishy center to me again.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17876.Notes_from_Underground_with_White_Nights_The_Dreams_of_a_Ridiculous_Man_and_selections_from_The_House_of_the_Dead">Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3356.Fyodor_Dostoevsky">Fyodor Dostoevsky</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:25:37 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book caused the existential crisis of my early twenties. No joke. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23547.The_Daily_Show_with_Jon_Stewart_Presents_America_The_Book_Teacher_s_Edition_A_Citizen_s_Guide_to_Democracy_Inaction">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/466.Jon_Stewart">Jon Stewart</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:22:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Where else can you see the Supreme Court Justices naked, since they took that video off YouTube? A classic. A hilarious, gorgeous classic.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure">Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15905.Thomas_Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:20:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Just about killed me. An incredible, crushing novel. Hardy writes what I feel. If I didn't know any better about Hardy, I'd think this novel was the 19th-century &quot;Requiem for a Dream,&quot; the equivalent of an anti-emotional, anti-adultery PSA. That's how harsh it is. I know a lot of people we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11349711">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/379160.The_25th_Hour">The 25th Hour (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/120401.David_Benioff">David Benioff</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:16:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Meh. Nice try.]]></body>
        
    
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