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  <title><![CDATA[Viola in Reel Life]]></title>
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  <default_description>Shipped off to boarding school in South Bend, Indiana, city girl and aspiring filmmaker Viola Chesterton feels out of place with her three new roommates. Missing her life back home, Viola is tempted to hide behind her video camera all year. But first impressions are often wrong, and soon Viola realizes she&#8217;s in for the most incredible year of her life&#8212;if only she can put the camera down and let the world in.

USA Today calls powerhouse adult author Adriana Trigiani &#8220;one of the reigning queens of women&#8217;s fiction.&#8221; Viola in Reel Life follows on the heels of Adriana's debut on the Harper list, the instant New York Times bestselling adult novel Very Valentine, and she has now brought to life&#8212;with a spot-on teen voice&#8212;a new series about four friends finding their place at boarding school and the world at large.
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[On September 3, 2009, fourteen-year-old Viola Chesterton finds herself unhappy after being dropped off in South Bend, Indiana which Viola refers to as the: “...dust bowl of Indiana”, at “The Prefect Academy For Young Women Since 1890.” Viola’s parents are off in Afghanistan for a year maki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77687569">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Normally I don't read young adult novels....I did enough of that while studying to be a teacher in college.  But with Adriana Trigiani as one of my favorite authors, I had to make an exception.<br/><br/>This book is about Viola, a fourteen year old girl from NYC, who has been sent away to boarding...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68420306">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Viola in Reel Life worked for me despite the fact, that it sounded to me like the type of book I usually do not like. The thing about Viola in Reel Life is the pace is extremely slow for most of the novel, but in the words of a dear friend, “slow is not always a bad thing. “ In the case of Viola...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67459553">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Viola In Reel Life is the story of Viola Chesterton, age fourteen. Viola's parents are documentary film-makers who are going to film in Afghanistan. They'll be gone a year and Prefect Academy is the perfect place for Viola to spend that year. She hates leaving her BFFs back in Brooklyn - how will sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72061004">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Viola in Reel Life is a YA novel that is very charming and clean.  A reader won't find sex within its pages (how refreshing!), yet the book still manages to speak about teenage relationships in a way that I found to be very honest and true.  Viola is a wise heroine who bravely handles being away fro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70532209">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Viola in Reel Life surprised me by how much I enjoyed this book. By the first page I was hooked by the narration and detailed description by Trigiani. I honestly don’t know what sold me to the book. I mean the characters were good but not the oh my god version, the plotline was clean but the oh my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63592186">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I identified with Viola's life before PA (she lived near where I lived in Cobble Hill, and many of the stores were ones I'd shopped in; and she had attended St. Ann's, a school I know well) and with her arrival at Perfect Academy (because I was once the new kid at boarding school).  The biggest diff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64336376">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[VIOLA IN REEL LIFE is a straightforwardly charming book about learning to survive on your own. Adriana Trigiani’s YA debut is irresistible and chaste, perfect for readers of all ages.<br/><br/>Viola has a certain amount of spark and wit that I admire. She is always ready with a snarky comment—...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65583553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What could have been a great teen novel, not to mention an interesting addition to the prep school lit genre, was disappointing to say the least. Trigiani told much more than she showed, skipping over what could have been key scenes in favor of summary that took away from the emotional impact of thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73595478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Adriana Trigiani, but this book didn't live up to my expectations. I enjoyed the characters and the premise of the story. But Viola was entirely too self-aware and would constantly tell us what she had learned from various situations. She was always spelling things out for us rather than lett...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72801233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read about 70 pages and gave up. Thus I'm not going to rate it and give it the benefit of the doubt. I like Trigiani's adult fiction but this one went nowhere for me.  All I could see was that she was trying to grab the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fans.  These characters just did not have th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77539892">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Viola learns a lot in her year away from her parents when she starts high school at boarding school in the midwest.  This NY girl finds that friends can be like sisters, first-time boyfriends are great for awhile, grandmas and parents who love you is unbeatable and life with a passion makes all the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67747836">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 02 15:56:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what it looks like when a book disparages my homeland and makes me too angry to finish. Each slur against Indiana made me angrier and angrier until finally there was a comment about a teacher not being able to buy leopard print Sketchers (SKETCHERS? REALLY A-TRIG?) in Indiana because they we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65758011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was great! I loved Viola and her view of life. Trigiani creates a spunky young heroine who has a lot of insight already even if she is not aware of that yet. Her unfortunate removal from all that she knows and loves could lead to a whiney novel about the misery of being someplace else. Ins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61172472">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reasons I may like YA fiction: Maybe it's because I don't believe my interests have changed much since I was about 14. Maybe it's the jaded adult in me looking back wistfully at a simpler time. Or maybe it's that I'm trying live my teen years vicariously, now instead of then, because I thought I was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69816582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The idea of being at a boarding school away from home is different for many people. Viola, a young girl who is passionate about filming, doesn't want to be alone in a new environment when she has no choice but to go to an all-girls boarding school as her parents work abroad.<br/><br/>Rooming with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62199867">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been ecstatic to read this novel, since it first showed up in my mailbox a few months ago thanks to the extremely nice, Adriana. And let me tell you, I was no where close to being disappointed by the end of this darling book titled Viola In Reel Life. <br/><br/>Viola, as well as her boardin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61881863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever been so taken in by a book that immediately upon finishing it you wanted to scoop up every other title written by that particular author? Well that's how I felt about Viola in Reel Life. When I picked up this novel, I had never read any of Trigiani's other novels and didn't know what t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60760668">more...</a>]]></body>
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