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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:37:46 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I gotta read some classics, and this one is... short? No, that's not why I'm reading it... not the only reason. Didn't know which Hemingway to start with, though.<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Just finished it after taking far too long to read it. I feel kind of like Santiago's (the titular &quot;old ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18379638">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:35:11 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My brother recommended this book to me, and I'm glad he did. Instead of a self-help kind of thing, this book is more about the science of why the brain does what it does and why so many of us don't know how to make ourselves happy. Really interesting theories on how untrustworthy memory can be that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73751797">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:55:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Joe Matt is a very talented comic book creator and a great guy in person. His comic book version of himself seems a little off putting, though. It's amazing that he can bare his soul like this in comic book form -- for the public. Dealing a lot with what he considers his laziness to his addiction to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73752333">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:52:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Jeffrey Brown has become one of my favorite comic creators. Deceptively simple, scratchy line work and quiet, observational journaling of his life makes for some great reading. Dealing with his college years, Crohne's disease, drinking, breaking into comics -- a lot of ground is covered. Just a very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73752009">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:03:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Jonathan Lethem's collection of essays mixes reviews with personal anecdotes to create something of a biography. I also grew up on Marvel comics like he did, as well as &quot;Star Wars,&quot; and though I don't share all, or many more of his specific interests/obsessions (&quot;The Searchers,&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73040937">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:11:29 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another great collection from David Sedaris -- this one is more touching than the others. Still funny, to be sure, but there are quite a few heartfelt moments as well as some dark ones; he always manages to make it funny, though.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:09:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[As always, a delight to read essays by David Sedaris. They guy just amuses me. As funny and insightful as his other books.]]></body>
        
    
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