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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287773.Screwed_The_Undeclared_War_Against_the_Middle_Class_And_What_We_Can_Do_About_It">Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class - And What We Can Do About It (BK Currents)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1433.Thom_Hartmann">Thom Hartmann</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:17:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[OK...so I didn't read this cover to cover. Joel and passed it back and forth when we were feeling particularly alienated as members of our dying middle class! Very clearly lays out the corporatist agenda and explains why it is bad for you! Unless you are a corporatist. In that case, you will hate th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/OK...so%20I%20didn't%20read%20this%20cover%20to%20cover.%20Joel%20and%20passed%20it%20back%20and%20forth%20when%20we%20were%20feeling%20particularly%20alienated%20as%20members%20of%20our%20dying%20middle%20class!%20Very%20clearly%20lays%20out%20the%20corporatist%20agenda%20and%20explains%20why%20it%20is%20bad%20for%20you!%20Unless%20you%20are%20a%20corporatist.%20In%20that%20case,%20you%20will%20hate%20this%20book.%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[added: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77141.This_Organic_Life_Confessions_of_a_Suburban_Homesteader">This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43774.Joan_Dye_Gussow">Joan Dye Gussow</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:13:23 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This reinfoirced my life-long belief that it IS possible to grow and raise most of your own food without going crazy in the process. It is an easy and interesting read, and very inspiring.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395042.Pnin">Pnin (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5152.Vladimir_Nabokov">Vladimir Nabokov</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:35:59 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[One of the most memorable books I have ever read. A touching masterpeice by Nabokov.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18639.Two_Girls_Fat_and_Thin">Two Girls Fat and Thin (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11214.Mary_Gaitskill">Mary Gaitskill</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:11:04 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is one for the ladies...but it's not &quot;chick lit&quot; crap. It's dark, but very good.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5186.Breath_Eyes_Memory">Breath, Eyes, Memory (Oprah's Book Club)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3525.Edwidge_Danticat">Edwidge Danticat</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:08:07 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[One that I remember mostly for the beauty of the prose and the humanity of the story. Edwidge Dandicat was reccomended to me years ago by an editor friend. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2187.Middlesex">Middlesex (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1467.Jeffrey_Eugenides">Jeffrey Eugenides</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:05:40 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love Jeffery Eugenides! This is his pulitzer prize winning work about a hermaphroditic Greek &quot;girl&quot; who is raised as such, but later feels that she was really born a male with some female sex characteristics. The writing is wonderful, the characters are so interesting, and the story is s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/I%20love%20Jeffery%20Eugenides!%20This%20is%20his%20pulitzer%20prize%20winning%20work%20about%20a%20hermaphroditic%20Greek%20%22girl%22%20who%20is%20raised%20as%20such,%20but%20later%20feels%20that%20she%20was%20really%20born%20a%20male%20with%20some%20female%20sex%20characteristics.%20The%20writing%20is%20wonderful,%20the%20characters%20are%20so%20interesting,%20and%20the%20story%20is%20so%20layered.%20This%20book%20links%20the%20burning%20of%20Smyrna%20and%20an%20unnatural%20relationship%20between%20a%20brother%20and%20a%20sister%20to%20the%20plight%20of%20a%20suburban%20%22girl%22%20struggling%20with%20her%20sexual%20identity%20as%20a%20result%20of%20that%20relationship.%20Soooooo%20good.%20I%20think%20I%20need%20to%20read%20it%20again.%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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