<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/15b0e1fe-a1a3-43b5-ad2d-c2ee38ad39b7/35D826FB-A3AD-4AE1-8097-D3BA3E6445C4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html" href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readforpleasure.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readforpleasure.com/img/7272419C-C73E-4794-B836-C496E55E992E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html"><I>The Wonder Spot</I> is a series of chapters in the life of Sophie. We first meet her at age 12, an ordinary girl growing up outside Philadelphia; the book ends with her near 40 in Manhattan.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html">Bank writes well, and I smiled at the occasional turn of phrase, but Sophie is most interesting early on, as a child; the college and adult chapters blur together.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html">I'm told Bank's debut, <A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140293248?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140293248">The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing</A> was a lot more creative. It's possible; don't let me put you off trying it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/07/melissa-bank-wonder-spot.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readforpleasure.com/img/18815D72-96FD-4F3D-A263-B29D560DFABE" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35D826FB-A3AD-4AE1-8097-D3BA3E6445C4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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