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    <action_text><![CDATA[took the never-ending book quiz]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:47:15 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5693.Stories_of_Anton_Chekhov">Stories of Anton Chekhov (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7421.Anton_Pavlovich_Chekhov">Anton Pavlovich Chekhov</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:02:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<img src="http://thebeliever07.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/chekhov1.gif" class="escapedImg"/>I'm reading Chekhov stories online, here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://chekhov2.tripod.com/">201 Stories by Anton Chekhov (Constance Garnett tr.)</a><br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:01:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am rather taken with its curiosity thus far... ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222388.The_Lime_Twig">The Lime Twig (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13765.John_Hawkes">John Hawkes</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:06:49 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm very glad that I bought a bunch of his titles a few years ago on name recognition alone. This is the first of his I've read, and his sentences here are almost menacingly loaded and dense.<br/><br/>To quote the man: &quot;I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80293697">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733927.Blood_Dark_Track_A_Family_History">Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/389474.Joseph_O_Neill">Joseph O'Neill</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:01:29 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The nature of the story, the interweaving of generations in the text, the historical context (a run up to WWII and the imprisonment of his two grandfathers--in Turkey and Ireland, respectively--up to the late 90's), the locales treated, and the personal witnesses (Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80256632">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:01:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1412101.Naming_the_New_World_A_Novel">Naming the New World: A Novel (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/360091.Calvin_Baker">Calvin Baker</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:39:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Cut-sharp for a novel by someone so young. Placing a library hold on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/671795.Dominion_A_Novel">Dominion</a> immediately.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119552.Discipline_and_Punish_The_Birth_of_the_Prison">Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1260.Michel_Foucault">Michel Foucault</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:50:50 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I joined a book club and this is the first book I'm reading with them.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:32:44 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[this may be the most vicious and cruel book i have ever read...  and i read it on a recommendation from john waters, so you know it is fantastic. <br/><br/>Purdy is from Hicksville, Ohio, and grew up in Findlay, which is twenty  minutes from where I grew up.]]></body>
        
    
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