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    <updated_at>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:16:49 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Utterly depressing book about missed opportunities and double-dealing in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Yes, I knew that Bush abandonned Afghanistan to go to war in Iraq and that the Taliban rushed in to fill the void.  But I hadn't known how much support Pakistan had and has given the Taliban or how sk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81429203">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:28:09 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[After two masterpieces and a clunker, Hornby has his second straight solid outing.  &quot;Juliet&quot; was the best-known album by the American singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe, who disappeared from public view shortly after its release.  Twenty years later, a stripped-down version of the album (&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81236275">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:19:26 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Not top-drawer Wodehouse, but still quite amusing and a good example of Wodehouse's &quot;musical comedy without the songs.&quot;  Psmith is an engaging character, a frothy upper-class Cambridge grad who calls everyone Comrade and gets them to do things they oughtn't or wouldn't otherwise do.  In th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81235696">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:22:47 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is fun.  Waugh travels around the Mediterranean in the late 1920s, during the early days of mass tourism.  His comments on the places and process are often witty.  His immaturity shows at times, and he spends far too long in one boring place (Port Said - he originally intended to write a whole ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76631025">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:54 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Promises far more than it delivers.  Narrator Tassie Keltjin is a 20-year-old Wisconsin farmgirl/college student coming of age in Madison (fictional Troy) in the months after 9/11.  She is a true original, a funny and believable blend of acuity and naivete.  But the other characters and the plot are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76630170">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:08:19 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read this in one sitting.  Admittedly, I was on a 10-hour plane trip and Shelley was asleep, but this is a moving, beautifully written novel.  Eilis Lacey is a young woman who can't make a living in Ireland in the early 1950s.  Her family ships her off to Brooklyn, where their former parish priest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74441271">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2039087.The_Pickwick_Papers">The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/239579.Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:55:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Who knew Chas Dickens could be so funny?  And why did he stop here?  This was his first novel, and it is a thorough delight, a comic picaresque wherein Mr Pickwick (a warm-hearted middle-aged bachelor of independent means)and his followers stumble around England getting into sticky situations and so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74440766">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:52:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Utterly delightful.  I'm taking intermittent bites from this apple in between other reading, which works insofar as the original was published as a serial over several years.  It's an episodic picaresque tale of the Pickwickians, a group of unemployed upper-middle-class bachelors who roamed the Engl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70724186">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5831526.Tea_Bee_s_Milk_Our_Year_in_a_Turkish_Village">Tea &amp; Bee's Milk: Our Year in a Turkish Village (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2171259.Ray_Gilden">Ray Gilden</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:46:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This self-published book starts slowly -- it reads a bit too much like collected emails home -- but it grew on me as Karen Gilden (who wrote most of the entries) gets to know her neighbors and her neighborhood.  The Gildens take some interesting excursions, Ray describes the Turks' uncanny ability t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70723199">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6409636-the-battle-for-america-2008">The Battle for America, 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74417.Dan_Balz">Dan Balz</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:35:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A good &quot;instant history&quot; of the 2008 campaign.  The first half -- on the Democratic primaries -- is by far the best.  Having lived through all of this day to day, much of the narrative was familiar, but the main premise is fascinating: HRC never knew what hit her.  Knowing that they couldn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70722468">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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