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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:32:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[interesting choice.. from the description it sounds like a cheesy romance novel (no offense lisa). Will be interested to see what you think of it.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:24:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I felt the same... we'll keep reading them if she writes them though. :)]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:22:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I have mixed thoughts about this book. The start was OK; I liked going back and forth between Jamie/Claire and Bree/Roger and the time periods. Midway through the book, we stopped hearing lot from Bree/Roger though. Then BAM! at the end of the book, a crisis with them. I thought there should have be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20have%20mixed%20thoughts%20about%20this%20book.%20The%20start%20was%20OK;%20I%20liked%20going%20back%20and%20forth%20between%20Jamie%2FClaire%20and%20Bree%2FRoger%20and%20the%20time%20periods.%20Midway%20through%20the%20book,%20we%20stopped%20hearing%20lot%20from%20Bree%2FRoger%20though.%20Then%20BAM!%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20book,%20a%20crisis%20with%20them.%20I%20thought%20there%20should%20have%20been%20a%20little%20more%20build%20up%20to%20that.%20There%20was%20a%20lot%20of%20American%20Revolution%20stuff%20that%20I%20just%20skimmed.%20Other%20people%20might%20like%20it,%20but%20I%20don't.%20I%20did%20the%20same%20in%20Les%20Miserables;%20skimmed%20the%20war%20stuff.%20The%20last%20100%20pages%20or%20so%20were%20GREAT!%20I%20wish%20the%20whole%20book%20had%20been%20like%20that.%20I%20will%20keep%20reading%20this%20series%20if%20she%20writes%20more,%20but%20I%20hope%20they%20are%20better.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:46:13 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Kate and Daniel spoke so highly of it. I tried to read another of Chabon's books and couldn't get through it. ]]></body>
        
    
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