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    <updated_at>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:05:06 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm enjoying reading this with Maren as her father is reading Harry Potter book 2 to her and her brother.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:30:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Maren, Easton, and I read this during the summer.  Some segments from the middle would lose their interest, especially with 6-year-old Easton.  I had never read it before and so read ahead to see if finishing it was worth it.  I decided it definitely was, and my excitement for them to hear the endin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72723332">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11149.The_Screwtape_Letters">The Screwtape Letters (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis">C.S. Lewis</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:22:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71776.At_Home_in_Mitford">At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/40552.Jan_Karon">Jan Karon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:20:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read this for my book club.  This Christian novel is a bit sugar-coated, predictable, shielded, and anti-climatic but an overall nice story with some fun characters.  Father Tim is admirable, but I most enjoyed the interactions between Puny and Dooley.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77295.Gift_from_the_Sea">Gift from the Sea (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21135.Anne_Morrow_Lindbergh">Anne Morrow Lindbergh</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:54:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:51:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2391128.The_Seamstress_A_Novel">The Seamstress: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1068756.Frances_de_Pontes_Peebles">Frances de Pontes Peebles</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:48:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This long novel never tired me.  This is a great story (or family saga, even) with complex characters, several of which are very likable despite their faults.  This novel has just about everything: complex relationships, Brazilian history and culture, politics, botany, suspense, and ethics to name a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67188977">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289736.Bamboo_and_Lace">Bamboo and Lace (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10679.Lori_Wick">Lori Wick</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:03:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a squeaky clean culturally-poor-Cinderella love story with an obvious didactic slant from the born-again Christian perspective.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture">The Last Lecture (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/287960.Randy_Pausch">Randy Pausch</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:33:17 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Inspiring, although a bit self-aggrandizing.  I questioned his decision to leave religion out of his lecture.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375293.Giant_Joshua">Giant Joshua (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/652425.Maurine_Whipple">Maurine Whipple</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:29:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Whipple is a talented, under-appreciated author.  I appreciated her writing even more on this, my second reading.  I think it's fascinating to imagine life in plural marriage as Clory, 'Sheba, or Willie.  I think my favorite scene is the wagon tip.  Whipple does show different families with varying ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67189423">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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