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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:12:52 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good characters, made me want to spend a year on Martha's Vineyard, in a small old house. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:10:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This made me rethink hair dye. But not for that long. I'm still going to cover it. But I also found it difficult to wade through so many examples of how with women, &quot;older&quot; means &quot;not sexy&quot; and &quot;not sexy&quot; means &quot;invisible.&quot;  I want a new paradigm! Also reading...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80058506">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:54:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Good story, improbable but wholly believable characters, just what we count on Alice Hoffman to do for us. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:49:12 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:47:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love the way Francine Prose writes. I use her book on muses in my Women in Vis. Art course. Nice and gossipy, she really gets you to think about historical figures as real people. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:01:36 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Sneaks some info on addictive personality and recovery from addictions into what would otherwise be pure Chick-lit.  Fairly entertaining, because the protagonist remains strangely likable even though she does a lot of horrific things. Interesting example of hating the addiction, loving the addict. ]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:46:20 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:14:27 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[The edition I got from the school library includes some interesting appendixes that help one get over the trauma of not having anymore of this book to read, but they're also quite painful to go through!  Clearly those Nazis were complete bastards, to have done in the author before she even got to th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65905262">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired">The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women &amp; the Artists They Inspired (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12180.Francine_Prose">Francine Prose</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:06:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A book I read by accident that became a text for my course on Women in the Visual Arts.  After all, at least 4 of these muses were &quot;in the visual arts.&quot;  I find the chapter on Lee Miller the most fascinating, and the most likely to inspire me to research her more.  Why don't more people kn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61316782">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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