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          <body><![CDATA[I agree with you completely.  I felt like I was yearning for her to fail so that she would see that maybe she, at he tender age of 24, might actually still have something to learn.  ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:14:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book really annoyed me.  <br/>It is, as it says, the &quot;Diary of a Teacher's First Year&quot;, and it sounds like in her first year, Madame Esme (as she insists on being called, a source of endless and essentially pointless conflict with her principal), is a really fabulous teacher.  She dr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65860120">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:13:56 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[What you say about pedophilia, cultural taboos, puberty, etc. is certainly true.  However, if memory serves me correctly (I read this over a year ago), Delgadina has not gone through puberty, and the protagonist specifically is attracted to that immature body-- when she begins to &quot;flower&quot; into womanhood he is taken aback by her bodily changes and less attached to her.  There is also something disturbing in her absolute powerlessness that has an emotional resemblance to the power dynamic in pedophilia.  Still-- you should read the book and see what you think.  I think any book that stimulates discussion is worth reading.<br/><br/><em>Nagrom wrote: &quot;I think this review, more than any of the others, made me curious to read this book. Already a GGM fan, I'd have probably gotten around to this eventually, but I am now quite compelled.<br/>Don't get m...&quot;</em><br/><br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:17:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've been meaning to read it forever-- I have high expectations!]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:44:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It adopts the same noirish pulpy tone that Auster employed in the New York Trilogy, but offers up some really pithy reflections on the purpose of art.  At the same time, it is a mysterious page-turner, that keeps you guessing until the end.  ]]></body>
        
    
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