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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:38:56 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read on the train to escape from all the stress of school, but I wonder if reading a book about such dysfunctional people - or should I say, people unhappy in their own ways - doesn't add to my stress.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:34:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another book recommended by my professor that was on my shelf but I had never read.  I hadn't realized that Canada had interned its Canadian residents AND refused to let them return to the Vancouver until a decade after the war.  A depressing book but eye-opening.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:31:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[ The professor of my English grammar class at Nihon University was telling us last class that he had been to a conference and heard a presentation about this book.  It had been on my bookshelf for ages, so I finally read it.  It is a really candid look at what it means to be American in light of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79935010">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:22:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  In terms of literature, I preferred Dreams of My Father, but this was a good read for a book by a politician.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:24:58 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:23:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I had read a review of this book when it was first published, but I didn't get around to buying it until I came back to Japan and joined an English haiku circle.<br/>Now I'm a huge fan.  The images are beautiful and Richard (as we call him in my haiku circle) strictly follows the 5-7-5 form.  I rer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78616846">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:16:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  Another Steinbeck I had never read.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  Another book that I sort of knew but had never actually read.  I read in the introduction that Steinbeck had originally called it &quot;A Thing that Happened&quot; but I am really glad he decided on &quot;Of Mice and Men.&quot;  I think the &quot;Of&quot; is really important, too.  I am reading al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78571205">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:08:31 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[  I had read stories from the Red Pony starting in 7th grade, but this is the first time I read them all together, and it gave me a new appreciation of Steinbeck.]]></body>
        
    
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