A- 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 / Silvia Moreno-Garcia / surveillance3 Comments
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 >
B 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 >
Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsAustralia / body image / Contemporary / rugby / sports romance5 Comments
Harper Nugent might have a little extra junk in her trunk, but her stepbrother calling her out on it is the last straw… When rugby hottie, Dexter Blake, witnesses the insult, he surprises Harper by asking her out. In front of her dumbass brother. Score! Of course, she knows it’s ... more >
Publishing NewsAdvertising / body image / broadband / Comcast / FCC / History / net neutrality / publishing / Race / Time Warner / World War I3 Comments
How Net neutrality helped kill the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger – A very interesting analysis on the death of the Comcast – Time Warner merger, particularly in regard to how regulators became more and more resistant to the deal in the wake of the net neutrality debates. Given the incredible ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Amazon publishing / Authors Guild / body image / contests / digital publishing / direct sales / Hachette / Harper Collins34 Comments
Authors Guild Weighs In on Amazon-Hachette Dispute – I know you’ve been waiting for this; the Authors Guild’s Richard Russo wrote a letter to its members, essentially backing Hachette in the current game of publishing chicken. I don’t think this is at all surprising, given the Guild’s history of and ... more >
Publishing Newsbody image / Comics / digital books / Harlequin / Kickstarter / readers18 Comments
The New Barbie: Meet the Doll with an Average Woman’s Proportions – Remember the artist’s rendering of what an “average” Barbie would look like? Well, Nickolay Lamm decided to take his vision and make it a reality, raising $95,000 on Kickstarter to design and manufacture his own doll. to be ... more >