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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58696.David_Copperfield">David Copperfield (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/239579.Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:36:20 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Just about 3 chapters in and loving it. In his preface, Dickens says that out of all his &quot;children&quot; David Copperfield is his favorite; I am inclined to agree with him so far. He is a mixture of childlike wonder and innocence and wry observation and a keenly likeable little urchin.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022022.Freakonomics_A_Rogue_Economist_Explores_the_Hidden_Side_of_Everything">Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised and Expanded Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/798.Steven_D_Levitt">Steven D. Levitt</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:40:35 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6391437-the-clue-of-the-twisted-candles">The Clue of the Twisted Candles (Kindle Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/81433.Edgar_Wallace">Edgar Wallace</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:33:39 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194366.The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes">The Return of Sherlock Holmes (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2448.Arthur_Conan_Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:31:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365990.The_Crossing">The Crossing (Border Trilogy, Vol 2)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4178.Cormac_McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:28:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Off to a slow start but the scenes with the wolf are intensely arresting.<br/><br/>Almost done (after about 5 months of reading little snatches) and I am dreading the inevitable. <br/><br/>Yep. The inevitable happened and I am deeply depressed.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6786026-the-old-man-in-the-corner">The Old Man in the Corner (Fingerprint Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2893961.Baroness_Emmuska_Orczy">Baroness Emmuska Orczy</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:43:50 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Been reading one a day, they're quick and conventional. I don't find the old man in the corner as engrossing as other detectives of fiction (Tommy &amp; Tuppence being my favorites)... but the stories are well told and fun to read.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194373.The_Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes">The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2448.Arthur_Conan_Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:43:48 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Reading one or two a day, such fun stuff.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[took the never-ending book quiz]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:00:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:24:45 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'll definitely pick it up! Thanks!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:16:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[yeah... you probably shouldn't finish the book.<br/><br/><em>susan wrote: &quot;i had to stop reading this book because of the wolf scenes. i got so nervous something bad was going to happen to her i couldn't even bear it. maybe you could let me know if my worst fears come tru...&quot;</em><br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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