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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6324914.Homer_and_Langley_A_Novel">Homer and Langley: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12584.E_L_Doctorow">E.L. Doctorow</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:39:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I can't quite believe this is my first Doctorow novel, but there it is. I enjoyed this quick read that fictionalizes the story of New York's most famous hoarders, the Collyer Brothers. There's a mild Forrest Gump-like narrative arc that shows the brothers responding to different monumental events of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81530161">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6303733.That_Old_Cape_Magic">That Old Cape Magic (Audio CD)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7844.Richard_Russo">Richard Russo</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:38:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I grew up in Massachusetts and took summer vacations in Maine, so I hoped the settings would charm me, regardless of any other narrative element. No such luck. This book wasn't painful to read and the second half was much more engaging, but I didn't really connect with any of the characters in this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81530126">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6552425-a-vindication-of-love">A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2963342.Cristina_Nehring">Cristina Nehring</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:38:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love anyone who dares to point out that twenty-first century heterosexual relationships are suffering at best, totally fukakte at worst. Nehring doesn't explicitly state she's focused on male-female connections, but her use of literary and historical examples of this type imply it. She attributes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70958512">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6076387.A_Gate_at_the_Stairs">A Gate at the Stairs (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11746.Lorrie_Moore">Lorrie Moore</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:37:21 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sigh...I'm not getting the accolades. I am a huge Lorrie Moore fan, but this novel did not do it for me at all. It took many, many pages to emerge from a somewhat boring beginning and never quite seemed to find its purpose. Of course, because it's Lorrie Moore, there were sentences of quirky, startl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75545813">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4682558.The_Book_of_Night_Women">The Book of Night Women (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/56064.Marlon_James">Marlon James</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:39:50 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The narrative voice in this epic history of 18th century Jamaican slavery is fiercely hypnotic from page one. The story is told in a linguistically compelling dialect; it reminded me a bit of the &quot;Sloosh'a's Crossin'&quot; chapter in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. The plot is dramatic and, at ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68882331">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16717.You_Don_t_Love_Me_Yet">You Don't Love Me Yet (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6404.Jonathan_Lethem">Jonathan Lethem</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:39:26 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Oh, Jonathan. What are you doing to me? I love your novels - I've pushed Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude on dozens of readers, but what the heck was this? That poor pathetic girl was not an engaging protagonist, and if you're going to have a kangaroo kidnapping subplot (and I would have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70958409">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065182.The_Little_Stranger">The Little Stranger (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25334.Sarah_Waters">Sarah Waters</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:39:01 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If you like The Turn of the Screw, you will love The Little Stranger. Waters's post-WWII ghost story very skillfully captures the historical detail and sense of place that make for a creepy haunted house narrative. What takes the novel beyond conventional imitation is the richness of Waters's charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76549375">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251222.Await_Your_Reply_A_Novel">Await Your Reply: A Novel (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16560.Dan_Chaon">Dan Chaon</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:06 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Perhaps the best part of this book was having cocktails with Dan Chaon after his Vroman's appearance while I was in the middle of reading it, but I digress. Chaon deserves the accolades he's been receiving. This novel is both parts literary and cinematic - his descriptions stretch the boundaries of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73984975">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52290.Masters_of_Atlantis">Masters of Atlantis (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27034.Charles_Portis">Charles Portis</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:13:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[If this book had taken place in California, it would have been perfect for my dissertation on alternative religion. There was something Upton Sinclair-ish about the style, and while I did not find it as uproarious as the blurbs promised, the characters and their intermittent devotion to their sect k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67731300">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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