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		<title>By: Kim</title>
		<link>http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/2009/10/the-sunday-salon-recommendation-success-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-4597</link>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ti: It&#039;s tough to be right all the time :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ti: It&#8217;s tough to be right all the time <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Ti</title>
		<link>http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/2009/10/the-sunday-salon-recommendation-success-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-4466</link>
		<dc:creator>Ti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My friends usually trust me if I recommend a book to them. I know them pretty well and usually I am right about their likes and dislikes. Usually ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My friends usually trust me if I recommend a book to them. I know them pretty well and usually I am right about their likes and dislikes. Usually <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Kim</title>
		<link>http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/2009/10/the-sunday-salon-recommendation-success-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-4451</link>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jodie: Ooo, that&#039;s really exciting -- it&#039;s great when you get people to buy books because of a recommendation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jodie: Ooo, that&#8217;s really exciting &#8212; it&#8217;s great when you get people to buy books because of a recommendation.</p>
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		<title>By: Jodie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jodie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So hard to recommend for my friends because we like totally different stuff (or they like things a lot that I like in moderation) but a couple of weeks ago I posted a copy of &#039;Magyk&#039; by Angie Sage to someone I knew really liked Harry Potter and she bought the whole Septimus Heap series. I was also really chuffed when my mum read Temeraire at my insistance (she was quite sceptical) and said it was lovely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So hard to recommend for my friends because we like totally different stuff (or they like things a lot that I like in moderation) but a couple of weeks ago I posted a copy of &#8216;Magyk&#8217; by Angie Sage to someone I knew really liked Harry Potter and she bought the whole Septimus Heap series. I was also really chuffed when my mum read Temeraire at my insistance (she was quite sceptical) and said it was lovely.</p>
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		<title>By: Kim</title>
		<link>http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/2009/10/the-sunday-salon-recommendation-success-stories/comment-page-1/#comment-4435</link>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;Vasilly:&lt;/b&gt; Mine sometimes miss too, usually when I want someone to like a book because I liked it rather than because I think they&#039;ll love it. 

&lt;b&gt;Louise:&lt;/b&gt; Ha ha, I&#039;m sorry Danish books aren&#039;t often recommendable :) I&#039;m usually ahead of most of the people I recommend books too, at least when it comes to nonfiction, etc. I&#039;m never up on new books.

&lt;b&gt;Andi:&lt;/b&gt; I made more recommendations in college too, although since I was around people reading a lot of the same things as me I didn&#039;t get the chance to as much. I haven&#039;t found a reading twin yet -- someday!

&lt;b&gt;Literary Omnivore:&lt;/b&gt; I haven&#039;t heard of Good Omens, sounds really interesting though! 

&lt;b&gt;Diane:&lt;/b&gt; Congrats! And yes, I do love it... I get really excited hearing someone loved a book that I suggested (in person and online :) )

&lt;b&gt;Jeanne:&lt;/b&gt; I love the idea of &quot;pre-read for your enjoyment&quot; :) I think classes with professors are a great way to find new books -- that&#039;s one of the things I miss most about college.

&lt;b&gt;softdrink:&lt;/b&gt; It&#039;s good your uncle liked the book -- it&#039;s an excellent one. And yay for another recommendation; &lt;i&gt;Say Everything&lt;/i&gt; was fascinating to me.

&lt;b&gt;Trish:&lt;/b&gt; It&#039;d be hard not to love &lt;i&gt;The Book Thief&lt;/i&gt;, but I might be biased about that. That is one thing that&#039;s hard about lending out books -- you might not get them back!

&lt;b&gt;Kathy:&lt;/b&gt; I&#039;ve never recommended a book to a stranger, that I can remember anyway, but I suppose I&#039;d do that sometime :)

&lt;b&gt;Susannah:&lt;/b&gt; I think I&#039;ve given two books A ratings -- &lt;i&gt;The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close&lt;/i&gt;. I gave up on ratings for awhile because I found them annoying, but I really should implement them. I just installed a plugin that claims it can make a table with reviews organized by rating, but I haven&#039;t figured out the PHP to make it work. I do have all the books I&#039;ve reviewed listed in my Archive though.

&lt;b&gt;Lisa:&lt;/b&gt; Congrats on the good recommendations :)

&lt;b&gt;Steph:&lt;/b&gt; That&#039;s cool! You could start a feature on your blog -- tell me what you like and I&#039;ll tell you a book. That would be a fun one :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Vasilly:</b> Mine sometimes miss too, usually when I want someone to like a book because I liked it rather than because I think they&#8217;ll love it. </p>
<p><b>Louise:</b> Ha ha, I&#8217;m sorry Danish books aren&#8217;t often recommendable <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I&#8217;m usually ahead of most of the people I recommend books too, at least when it comes to nonfiction, etc. I&#8217;m never up on new books.</p>
<p><b>Andi:</b> I made more recommendations in college too, although since I was around people reading a lot of the same things as me I didn&#8217;t get the chance to as much. I haven&#8217;t found a reading twin yet &#8212; someday!</p>
<p><b>Literary Omnivore:</b> I haven&#8217;t heard of Good Omens, sounds really interesting though! </p>
<p><b>Diane:</b> Congrats! And yes, I do love it&#8230; I get really excited hearing someone loved a book that I suggested (in person and online <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
<p><b>Jeanne:</b> I love the idea of &#8220;pre-read for your enjoyment&#8221; <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I think classes with professors are a great way to find new books &#8212; that&#8217;s one of the things I miss most about college.</p>
<p><b>softdrink:</b> It&#8217;s good your uncle liked the book &#8212; it&#8217;s an excellent one. And yay for another recommendation; <i>Say Everything</i> was fascinating to me.</p>
<p><b>Trish:</b> It&#8217;d be hard not to love <i>The Book Thief</i>, but I might be biased about that. That is one thing that&#8217;s hard about lending out books &#8212; you might not get them back!</p>
<p><b>Kathy:</b> I&#8217;ve never recommended a book to a stranger, that I can remember anyway, but I suppose I&#8217;d do that sometime <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><b>Susannah:</b> I think I&#8217;ve given two books A ratings &#8212; <i>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</i> and <i>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</i>. I gave up on ratings for awhile because I found them annoying, but I really should implement them. I just installed a plugin that claims it can make a table with reviews organized by rating, but I haven&#8217;t figured out the PHP to make it work. I do have all the books I&#8217;ve reviewed listed in my Archive though.</p>
<p><b>Lisa:</b> Congrats on the good recommendations <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><b>Steph:</b> That&#8217;s cool! You could start a feature on your blog &#8212; tell me what you like and I&#8217;ll tell you a book. That would be a fun one <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Steph</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I actually pride myself on being a really good book recommender!  Of course I am always suggesting books to Tony, but even apart from that, whenever I start talking books with friends (and even strangers) I always like to hear about what they enjoy reading and then suggest something for them to see how well I can guess what they&#039;ll like.  I&#039;ve had good success suggesting East of Eden by John Steinbeck and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen to one friend, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky to another, and even the Harry Potter books to another!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I actually pride myself on being a really good book recommender!  Of course I am always suggesting books to Tony, but even apart from that, whenever I start talking books with friends (and even strangers) I always like to hear about what they enjoy reading and then suggest something for them to see how well I can guess what they&#8217;ll like.  I&#8217;ve had good success suggesting East of Eden by John Steinbeck and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen to one friend, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky to another, and even the Harry Potter books to another!</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Recommendations have gone both ways for me.  I think my most successful recent recommendations were two to my mom: The Housekeeper and The Professor and Hannah&#039;s Dream.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recommendations have gone both ways for me.  I think my most successful recent recommendations were two to my mom: The Housekeeper and The Professor and Hannah&#8217;s Dream.</p>
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		<title>By: Susannah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Susannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I couldn&#039;t think of any recent successful recommendations, but in jumping back to your PatM review, I wondered how many other recent books you&#039;d rated as As. Do you have a running scale of the books you&#039;ve rated? I can&#039;t keep track!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I couldn&#8217;t think of any recent successful recommendations, but in jumping back to your PatM review, I wondered how many other recent books you&#8217;d rated as As. Do you have a running scale of the books you&#8217;ve rated? I can&#8217;t keep track!</p>
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		<title>By: Kathy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recommend books all the time to people I know well and to complete strangers.  I think most just ignore me, but my sister and one good friend trust my judgment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recommend books all the time to people I know well and to complete strangers.  I think most just ignore me, but my sister and one good friend trust my judgment.</p>
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		<title>By: Trish</title>
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		<dc:creator>Trish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m always reluctant to make book recommendations because my reading is so varied.  My mom LOVED The Book Thief and Maus, which made me really happy.  The Professor and the Madman is a great book--I loaned out my copy and never got it back. Don&#039;t think the person even read it.  :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m always reluctant to make book recommendations because my reading is so varied.  My mom LOVED The Book Thief and Maus, which made me really happy.  The Professor and the Madman is a great book&#8211;I loaned out my copy and never got it back. Don&#8217;t think the person even read it.  <img src='http://www.sophisticateddorkiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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