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Illustrated cover in tropical green and blue featuring a white couple laying back on pool floatie things wearing sunglasses. She is wearing a pink/cerise one piece swimsuit and he is wearing red swim trunks. They each have their (own) hands linked behind their respective heads.
May 20, 2025

REVIEW: The Love Haters by Katherine Center, narrated by Patti Murin

KaetrinB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbody image / Coast Guard / Contemporary / Florida / NetGalley4 Comments

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Content Notes:  reference to disordered eating and body image issues, parental death (off page, in the past) Dear Katherine Center, Katie Vaughn is a film-maker. She works in mid-level video production, mostly making corporate/promotional videos, while, on the side, making short, six-minute documentaries about a day in the life of ... more >

October 2, 2021

REVIEW: Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

JanineA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1970s / body image / Cold War / cynicism / disappearance / disillusionment / government suppression / idealism / legal secretary / Mexico / mystery/thriller / noir / operative / POC / POC author / protest / surveillance3 Comments

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Dear Silvia Moreno-Garcia, I’ve had mixed success with your books. I loved Gods of Jade and Shadow, your young adult fantasy, liked your sort-of-domestic-noir thriller, Untamed Shore, and didn’t care a bit for Mexican Gothic, the horror novel you came out with last year (I was an outlier; it was ... more >

September 6, 2021

REVIEW: Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsautobiography / Ballerina / ballet / biracial heroine / body image / Dancer / eating disorders / emotional abuse / fat shaming / Filipino American / First-Person / New York City / non-fiction / POC author / racism / sexism4 Comments

Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet—the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle. In this love letter to the art of dance and the sport that has ... more >

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