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PVPA's updates http://www.goodreads.com/user/updates_rss/129612 en-US Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:17:15 -0700 60 PVPA's updates http://www.goodreads.com/ 200 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo.gif 26540424 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:17:15 -0700 Review19720538 <![CDATA[PVPA added 'City of Ashes']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19720538

to: City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments, Book 2) by Cassandra Clare
bookshelves: adventure, did-not-finish, fantasy, love-stories, mythology, queer-characters, urban-fantasy, vampires
I liked the first book okay, but this one just dragged and I didn't like any of the characters. All whiney, self-centered brats. And the plot felt very contrived. Let's throw in every single plot device possible and every kind of monster and lots of villains and distrust and oy ve. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, but I was tired of it after the first chapter. And the stupid sexual tension between the annoying girl and the two boys was too much. ]]> 26535759 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:13:04 -0700 Review23503350 <![CDATA[PVPA added 'The Sea of Monsters']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23503350 The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan
bookshelves: adventure, currently-reading, fantasy, mythology
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to: The Realm of Possibility (Paperback) by David Levithan
bookshelves: queer-characters, realistic-fiction
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to: How They Met, and Other Stories (Hardcover) by David Levithan
bookshelves: love-stories, queer-characters, realistic-fiction, short-stories
Four and a half stars. Not perfect, but pretty darn close. David Levithan writes awesome love stories that happen to involve queer teens. Hooray. No one else does that really. There are a handful that are about questioning or coming out, but even those stories are still full of confident beautiful teens who just live their lives. ]]> 26034352 Wed, 28 May 2008 06:13:37 -0700 Review23112006 <![CDATA[PVPA added 'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23112006

to: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Hardcover) by Rachel Cohn
bookshelves: love-stories, queer-characters, realistic-fiction
This book was amazing, as most David Levithan books are. It takes place all in one night and you really follow the range of emotions of the main characters. They are intense and romantic and sexual and passionate and independent and confident and uncertain. I liked the telling from two points of view and I liked the incorporation of so much music. I knew a lot of it, but now I want to go listen to the rest ]]> 26034305 Wed, 28 May 2008 06:12:48 -0700 Review23111966 <![CDATA[PVPA added 'Skulduggery Pleasant']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23111966

to: Skulduggery Pleasant (Hardcover) by Derek Landy
bookshelves: adventure, fantasy, humor
I listened to the audio version of this book. It's amazing. The reader is now one of my top two favorite audiobook readers (the other being the reader of the Artemis Fowl books). I loved the music between chapters and the deadpan humor. I'm not sure if I would have liked this book had I read the print version, but I listen to it over and over again ]]> 24151889 Mon, 05 May 2008 12:33:41 -0700 Review19088980 <![CDATA[PVPA added 'Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19088980

to: Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World (Paperback) by Rita Golden Gelman
bookshelves: adventure, international, memoir
This was an amazing book. It makes me want to travel the world with no plans, just getting invited into people's lives and offering what I have. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to leave the safety of our lives, even if they are unhappy ones, to test the unknown. I admire her gumption and will try to capture a bit of her spirit as I start a new phase of my life in Costa Rica. ]]> 23909380 Fri, 02 May 2008 09:18:23 -0700 Rating351165 <![CDATA[PVPA Library voted on a quote]]> http://www.goodreads.com/

PVPA Library added a quote:
"I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark" — Bennett Madison

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]]> 23909253 Fri, 02 May 2008 09:16:21 -0700 Review21459723 <![CDATA[PVPA added 'Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21459723 Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox (Hardcover) by Bennett Madison
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to: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Hardcover) by Eric Weiner
bookshelves: international, memoir
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