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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:14:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Meh. A slapdash memoir of growing up dysfunctional in the Pacific Northwest from the publisher of Future Tense books. Has a modest twist in that it is composed of brief &quot;snapshot&quot; chapters with intriguing-seeming one-word titles: laziness masquerading as structural innovation. Also, the gu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80542437">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:33:41 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[&quot; A select group of people &quot; would be putting it mildly. :)<br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6356399-manhood-for-amateurs">Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2715.Michael_Chabon">Michael Chabon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:02:43 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Thoughtful, perceptive and maybe just a little dull. A &quot;liberal agnostic empiricist&quot; who is &quot;proud to be a semi-observant, bacon-eating Jew,&quot; Chabon offers accounts of grappling with the complexities of modern manhood -- from the dreaded &quot;drug talk&quot; with one's children ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76615677">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:03:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I guess you could file this under &quot;neurotic-hipster-mom-language-poetry.&quot; Zucker's voice has undeniable force, and some of these poems are vivid in their emotional violence and disjointed verse. A lot of it, however, feels confessional in the worst sense of the word: rote, self-absorbed, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75847488">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6304165.Little_Bird_of_Heaven_A_Novel">Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3524.Joyce_Carol_Oates">Joyce Carol Oates</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:17:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[With &quot;Little Bird of Heaven,&quot; Joyce Carol Oates returns again to depictions of life in Sparta, N.Y., &quot;the doomed city on the Black River.&quot; In this latest offering, the fading blue-collar burg has been rocked by the grisly murder of one Zoe Kruller, a troubled but charismatic coun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73535426">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6396506-assorted-poems">Assorted Poems (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/308324.Susan_Wheeler">Susan Wheeler</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:13:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The extent to which one accepts T.S. Eliot’s dictum that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood is a good measure of how one will react to Susan Wheeler’s Assorted Poems. Wheeler’s poetry is thrillingly hallucinatory, a dense verbal jungle where “a cowboy is / coming after yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73534774">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6562344-the-mom-pop-store">The Mom &amp; Pop Store: How the Unsung Heroes of the American Economy Are Surviving and Thriving (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27429.Robert_Spector">Robert Spector</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:03:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[For many Americans, the phrase &quot;mom and pop store&quot; is irresistible, bringing back memories of a favorite candy store or corner grocery, usually run by an irascible immigrant with a hidden soft side. It's no news at all, of course, that the advent of monolithic chain stores and &quot;big bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73533557">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150347.My_Life">My Life (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/86859.Lyn_Hejinian">Lyn Hejinian</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:58:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to make an evaluation of this book. Perhaps the way to approach it, at least right now, is through a simple list of pros and cons:<br/><br/>PRO:<br/>• Unique<br/>• Evocative<br/>• Poetically charged<br/>• Unsettling<br/><br/>CON:<br/>• Impenetrable<br/>• Self-abs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73071886">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6585320-the-worst-book-i-ever-read">The Worst Book I Ever Read (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/521593.The_Unbearables">The Unbearables</a>]]></action_text>
    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62240932</link>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:54:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Um, yes, the only thing I have actually read in this is my own essay, an ill-tempered and possibly ill-advised attack on a novel by a man named Andy Greenwald called <em>Miss Misery,</em> which appeared about two years ago and promptly, and deservedly, sank without a trace. I had been commissioned to review ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62240932">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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