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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:33:32 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:32:57 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:31:12 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14248.Small_Wonder_Essays">Small Wonder: Essays (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3541.Barbara_Kingsolver">Barbara Kingsolver</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:07:15 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I love collections of short essays, as they are bite sized and palateable bedside reading, and this was a stellar specimen. Uplifting (even when pointedly condemning aspects of modern society) and insightful, these peeks into the author's family life and personal history were gems.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:23:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:23:07 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a hard read for me, not just because of the subject matter (senator + cocktails + car accident) but because it is told from a certain - intimate - perspective. It left me disturbed, which was certainly the intended effect, but wasn't a great bedstand read as a result.]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8954.Word_Freak_Heartbreak_Triumph_Genius_and_Obsession_in_the_World_of_Competitive_Scrabble_Players">Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5818.Stefan_Fatsis">Stefan Fatsis</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:14:09 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[hahaahah, Katie, your review reminded me that I'd read this book and truly enjoyed it - not in any life lesson way, but as a pure voyeur. I play scrabble, but it challenges me, and I now know why I'll never fully 'get it' - I just won't devote the time to memorization of language idioms, and couldn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74144591">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19596.Color_A_Natural_History_of_the_Palette">Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11729.Victoria_Finlay">Victoria Finlay</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:54:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[LOVE me a book where I can pick a chapter and read up on what's been taunting my mind - thus I love anthologies and various other collections.<br/><br/>in Color, I found a fantastic historical recounting of the who/where/why/what of much of our commonly accepted color palette. And that alone means...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30353278">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2058321.Art_Of_Celebration_The_Twentieth_Century_Painting_Literature_Sculpture_Photography_and">Art Of Celebration, The: Twentieth-Century Painting, Literature, Sculpture, Photography, and (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/65184.Alfred_Appel">Alfred Appel</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:52:03 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I've re-read this book no fewer than four times. A collection of essays on the impact of revolutionary artists, revolutionary art movements, revolutionary art exhibits, Appel examines the socially-responsive, collective psychology behind an appreciation of art from the mundane to the morose. Will ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25513281">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16800.Good_Benito">Good Benito (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8933.Alan_Lightman">Alan Lightman</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:50:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I feel almost guilty recommending this book SO highly, because I feel that my personal connection to it is so dependant upon some personal correlation - to throw in the (non-dramatic) spoiler: the scene in which the protagonist has a FLASH moment of 'break-through' clarity while in the shower..... h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26610563">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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