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    <updated_at>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:18:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hey!  I'm reading this right now--for the sixth time.  I love it more every time I read it--the planning, the subtleties, the often beautiful language without being showy--if you know what I mean.  His brand new one, Ender in Exile, just came out and I wanted to read this again before I read the new one.  I'll likely end up reading all the way through Speaker For The Dead, too, which is one of his best novels.  He has so many.  And I guess, if you're a genius of the geniuses, maybe you really would talk as they do; Card is remarkably brilliant, and I think he has some experience with how really, really bright kids talk.<br/><br/>Mostly, this book never gets old for me.  The story, the human conflicts, the emotional wrestling that goes on is timeless.  It's what Card does best.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 31 May 2008 11:37:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Hey, Fi!!<br/><br/>How come there are no books listed?  I'm pretty sure you're reading something, you always are.<br/><br/>I'm reading The Memory Keeper.  Quite good and one of Jennifer's recommendations.  I'm reading The Host next, and by then, Oh Glorious Day, I will be out of school.  Yippee!<br/><br/>See you before very long.  <br/><br/>(this is all very literary oriented, isn't it?)]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:50:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The second of Morris' books on Theodore Roosevelt, this book was about his political rise and &quot;reign.&quot;  His powerful, often daunting personality pushed him places other men would never have tried to enter.   His sense of social responsibility and his contempt for bullies (while he was one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19529825">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:44:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I'm a fiction reader, mostly; this was one of the efforts I made at reading some non-fiction after hearing Edmund Morris in an interview on a talk radio station.  He was immensely impressive--so well spoken, so literate, so knowledgeable about, it seemed, nearly everything.<br/><br/>The book was as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19529326">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:38:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was Stegner's Pulitzer Prize winner and a marvelous book.  His ability to surprise you with unexpected characters in even more unexpected settings is alway remarkable.  This one, with its two story lines, one current and one half a century preceding, is full of beautiful, ugly, inventive, sturd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19528795">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:31:14 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I know Mr. Smith has taken the literary world by storm with this line of stories, but I have to say I am not one of his fans.<br/><br/>The story seemed so random and disconnected, nothing more than one vignette after another, that I never felt myself engaged by either the story or the characters.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19528634">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:27:45 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is one of Stegner's more biographical novels.  It takes place in the Canada and the Western States, Utah playing a central role in the book.  <br/><br/>Stegner loves the land; his ability to reveal it with freshness and adoration is demonstrated in all his books, but even moreso in this one.  H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19527965">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:19:44 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book was my introduction to Wallace Stegner.  Since then, I have read all of his novels with the expception of his first, Lucky Star (I think).  I am forever grateful to the women of the Reading Group I was then a member of for bringing me to Mr. Stegner, one of the finest writers I've read.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19527579">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4687.The_Cider_House_Rules">The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3075.John_Irving">John Irving</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:13:26 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is certainly my favorite of John Irving's books after Prayer For Owen Meany.  Irving has a great capacity to make his readers see issues in new ways, not necessarily producing new conclusions, but ones with a wider, more open perspective than before.<br/><br/>This book, like all of Irving's n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19526847">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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