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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:41:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A beautifully written book. I found the spices of the words lifting right out of the page and demanding that I live life richly, to really stop and smell and taste the nuances of everyday life. It is truly a pleasure and a wonderful adventure to be able to experience things, from the sweet seductive...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71751938">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:00:18 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I was challenged by this book, initially by the quote it began with. It was a quote by Oscar Wilde that essentially says that there are two tragedies in life is never getting what you want and the other is getting it. The book was a tale of a family, the whispy connections it has and the ruts people...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70888299">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:51:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a real eye opener for me. I did not realize what hopelessness does to a group of people and how it is easy to turn a blind eye to it. It is always easy to judge someone, something in a second but when you delve past the surface you find that each person on this Earth is just going through t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49979726">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:47:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[David Lodge was a surprising author to me. Quite charismatic, engaging, excitingly intelligent and laugh out loud funny. I think I like him even more because he is English and uses that acerbic english wit to a tee, that it leaves me gasping after each sentence. This book is about a retiring linguis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49979323">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:53:53 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I thought this was touching...raw and unblemished human stories. It somehow explains why we give a dman and keep trodding along.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:35:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a beautiful accounting of the uncatchable essence that is woman. Mother, daughter, sister, earth. It is a delicious read...that leads you to face your preconceptions of woman.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:29:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Quite disturbing but mesmerizing, the words leap on to your tongue to tantalize you with its innocent wickedness. Brilliant...read it]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:27:47 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good read...wistful and ringing in truth regarding human nature and the price of forgivness]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:15:52 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book is exquisite, it was engaging and had the right about of human intellect to remind you of what life is. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:21:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I was so overwhelmed by this book, it taught me the meaning of friendship, loyalty and human nature. Recently I have been craving books about India and the lifestyle. This book embodies India. Even though it seems that the caste system has been eradicated from our society it really is still alive. T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/623731">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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