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    <updated_at>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:51:04 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[When you're starving -- for food, for companionship, for validation, for sex, for a relationship -- does that extreme hunger give you permission to toss aside any and all rules and just go for it?<br/><br/>And when does an author cross the line from effectively conveying those deep needs to downri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68688004">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:23:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Who are you? Are you the same person you were when you were 17? Has being married changed you in a fundamental sense? Has parenthood? Has love or the lack of? These are the undercurrents of themes Julia Glass embroiders around her characters in &quot;The Whole World Over,&quot; which is a great foll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64158213">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:10:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Better than ever, and obviously a writer who's worldview continues to evolve as he ages and travels. I found &quot;Dress Your Family&quot; to have undertones of anger and hostility, but this book is back to the Sedaris who looks at world a completely different and refreshingly optimistically (and at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60863072">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:05:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Donati moves into the second generation of the Bonner clan (or third if you count Daniel in &quot;Last of the Mohicans&quot; as the first generation) by following Hannah and Luke Bonner as they look for their cousin Jennet in the southern U.S. Most of the plotline takes place in and around New Orlea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60863031">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:48:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:00:20 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:46 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:57:42 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:41:25 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Following up on my &quot;rejoice, fans of Diana Gabaldon&quot; review, I now urge you all to sit down with a proper cup of strong tea. Chai, if you have it. It's time for a reality check.<br/><br/>My previous whole-hearted &quot;two thumbs up&quot; for Sara Donati's &quot;Into the Wilderness&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59955262">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72854.Into_the_Wilderness">Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/41193.Sara_Donati">Sara Donati</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:26:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[For any Diana Gabaldon fans, rejoice, my friends, rejoice!<br/><br/>I know you've waited a long time for more Claire and Jamie, with *years* between sequals. You can bridge that horrible gap with my new find, Sara Donati.<br/><br/>OK, I admit, I've only read the first book. But it had that heads...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59065080">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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