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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:14:34 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I do love a great plot...]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5191.The_Pilot_s_Wife">The Pilot's Wife (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3530.Anita_Shreve">Anita Shreve</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:13:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386187.Midnight_in_the_Garden_of_Good_and_Evil">Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4952.John_Berendt">John Berendt</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:11:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381713.Elizabeth_and_Mary_Cousins_Rivals_Queens">Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67300.Jane_Dunn">Jane Dunn</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:07:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185782.The_Heyday_of_the_Insensitive_Bastards_Stories">The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/220918.Robert_Boswell">Robert Boswell</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:06:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am not usually a fan of short stories but I am a big fan of Boswell.  And my book club is reading this.  And the author is coming to the book club!  in just a few hours!!  Will update this post then.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29036.The_Great_Influenza_The_Epic_Story_of_the_Deadliest_Plague_in_History">The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16328.John_M_Barry">John M. Barry</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:59:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I slogged through this as an audiobook on the fastest speed during my daily bike commute home. It was usually better than watching the macadam roll by.<br/><br/>I stuck with it because we are on the threshold of a new H1N1 outbreak.  But as an editor, I found myself trying to reorganize who sectio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70405570">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:53:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I am also a professional editor and was appalled at the writing and editing.  The only thing that got me through was the content and the timeliness of the topic.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16033.Mary_Queen_of_Scotland_and_the_Isles">Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6599.Margaret_George">Margaret George</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:34:50 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Interesting...  Whiny in the end.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10108.The_Autobiography_of_Henry_VIII_With_Notes_by_His_Fool_Will_Somers">The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6599.Margaret_George">Margaret George</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:31:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good book, but Henry gets whiny in the end...]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159582.The_Yearling">The Yearling (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/46158.Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings">Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:30:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I really hate it when they make the kid kill his or her own pet.  Isn't there a way to come of age in rural American that does not involve staring down at a loved critter from a shotgun???]]></body>
        
    
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