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		<title>Girl in Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I highly recommend Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. I assure you that when you start reading this book, your work, family, and house will be neglected as it’s very hard to put it down. I used to work near china town in New York and was always amazed by the Chinese culture. I was [...]
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		<title>Pride and Prejudice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin when I was in school in India.  Also, I had watched a TV series and a movie based on the book, Pride and Prejudice.  I had enjoyed it a lot.
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		<title>Danielle Steele and John Grisham</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shruti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love classics and non-fictions.  Sometimes it gets too much and I need a light fiction to break the cycle.  My two favorite authors are Danielle Steele and John Grisham.
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		<title>The Inheritance of Loss</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shruti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first half of The inheritance of loss by Kiran Desai was hard to read.  I just could not understand the point of the story.  My mother-in-law recommended it to me and so, I kept on reading.
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		<title>Thank You for All Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shruti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed Thank you for all things by Sandra Kring because of the lesson I learned from the story: there is little good and little bad in everyone and sometimes the bad is dominant.  That’s when we need to make an effort to see the good in that person.
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		<title>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffinger is an interesting read.  It’s a very sweet love story.  The moral of the story is that being in present is very precious and no matter what we do we cannot change either our past or future.
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		<title>The Story of Edgar Sawtelle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Madras on Rainy Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Native Son</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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