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    <updated_at>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:07:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[What a sweet book, really enjoyable.  And in addition to being sweet, the writing was smart with none of that awkward diction or overwrought flourishes I associate with chick lit.  And I liked how the central plot--a woman who poses as a former boyfriend's wife for the weekend because his mother is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69096253">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:55:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Oooh, delicious.  These guys are young, and they're GUY-GUYs, and normally I can't relate to that perspective, but they're also smart (went to Harvard.)  They challenge each other to a race around the world, one going east and the other west, with the only rule &quot;no airplanes.&quot;  Everything ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39554901">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/503248.My_Lobotomy">My Lobotomy (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/280258.Howard_Dully">Howard Dully</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:50:21 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I almost didn't read this because my husband started it first, and he said it was so simplistic, it annoyed him.  But once I started, I had a much different take.  Of course his voice was terse and factual; it's not like he aspired to be a writer.  He just happens to have this devastating, fascinati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33380433">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3499678.Eat_Memory_Great_Writers_at_the_Table_A_Collection_of_Essays_from_the_New_York_Times">Eat, Memory: Great Writers at the Table: A Collection of Essays from the New York Times (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24955.Amanda_Hesser">Amanda Hesser</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:06:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:05:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 1 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195289.I_Was_Told_There_d_Be_Cake">I Was Told There'd Be Cake (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/994873.Sloane_Crosley">Sloane Crosley</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:14:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ugh!  This book just made me mad.  The girl is pretty, in her '20s (at the time she was writing) and given free reign to babble incoherently about her &quot;edgy&quot; New York life, and I'll bet she got paid well, too!  Can you tell I'm bitter?  But she's not that funny; her &quot;kooky&quot; anecd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35506217">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000530.My_Russian">My Russian (Ballantine Reader's Circle)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/502835.Deirdre_McNamer">Deirdre McNamer</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:09:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The book had an intriguing premise--a woman takes a vacation from her life and puts a plan in place so that she can become someone else and never return--but ultimately I felt like there was a wall of gauze or a thick fog between me and the protagonist.  I never felt like I really understood her.  O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33380383">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2187.Middlesex">Middlesex (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1467.Jeffrey_Eugenides">Jeffrey Eugenides</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:59:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The book rocked.  I love epic family sagas, especially with intimate first-person narrators.  And sexual deviance is a plus. ;)  Seriously, though, I love how Eugenides squeezes in all this fascinating history of Greece, Detroit, Prohibition, Civil Rights, and gender studies while always keeping the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31548994">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378579.I_Love_You_Beth_Cooper">I Love You, Beth Cooper (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/215658.Larry_Doyle">Larry Doyle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:51:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[What a bummer.  I actually have a close friend named Beth Cooper and I ordered it for her birthday without reading it first.  I mean, I had read an enthusiastic review, so I figured it would be fun.  It was so slapsticky!  Plus, I really didn't need to be reminded about being a pariah in high school...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33380178">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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