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Gamora and Nebula: Sisters in Arms Review
I know, I know I have said I am not much of a Marvel fan but I enjoyed Lee’s nonfiction works and I have a passing knowledge of Guardians of the Galaxy due to my roommate watching them. With basic knowledge of the characters, I felt like this book would be a easy intro since it takes place and seeks to explain their background and sisterly dynamics pre-movie. Since I love sibling dynamics I immediately got sucked in.
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Prince of Song and Sea Review
I was super excited to read this book, I mean if that gorgeous cover (by Brittany Jackson btw) wasn’t enough, the promise of whole line of books telling the movies from the POV from the Disney Princes was a big attention-grabber. The princes are important as many have pointed out that they often the save the day, they’re the end-goal but outside of some notable exceptions like Aladdin and Naveen, they don’t have much personality. At least in the earlier ones so now we can dive deep into who is Prince Eric and how did he fall in love with a mute girl after a few days?
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The Heiress Review
You may think the Saybrooks have it all. Why wouldn’t you? Living on Fifth Avenue, the scion of a jewalry empire with the latest fashions and technologies with all the riches and vacations at your fingertips. They seem just like you ony prettier and more famous.
However with all those riches come with a lot of death in the family. Some might say they’re cursed and four pretty little heiresses are about to find that out firsthand.
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Ranking The Turners
Courtney Milan’s Turner series follows a trio of brothers who come from a gentry class and thoroughly impacted in different ways by their religiously-mad mother. All grown up they have suffered her mark and hold quite a bit of bagge within themselves and in their relationships with each other. All grown-up, the eldest brother, Ash Turner has procured a fortune and a dukedom to set them for life. But riches cannot prevent the complexities of falling in love, especially with similarly desperate woman, all to remember they are not as alone in the world as they think.
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Wild Rover No More Review
We have come to the end of the line as Meyer presents the last adventure of the cork-like Jacky Faber. But will her fate end at the gallows as she so direly predicted back when she was a young street urchin in London?
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Boston Jacky Review
Jacky is back in her beloved Beantown and while she does not burn the place down as she did in her first stay, she still brings about plenty of trouble. She is “ever so hard on her friends,” as well as one Jaimy Fletcher but we’ll get to that.
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Viva Jacquelina! Review
The inodimatble Jacky Faber is back, blackmailed by the British Intelligence into a new mission where she is sent over the hills and far away to the plains in Spain to be exact. . . And Portugal but that doesn’t fit the rhyme. Anyway, being Jacky her mission to spy on the French as they invade the Iberian penninsula doesn’t quite go as plan.
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Book Highlight: Extraordinary Mothers and Daughters
This is the perfect book for Mother’s Day as if the title wasn’t clue enough. The beautiful collages by Natasha Cunningham highlighting black and white portraits overlayed with flowers adds to the theme.
Split into six chapters by Emily Freidenrich shows the warmth, love and osmetimes complex bonds of twenty five famous mother-daughter figures even ones spanning three generations like Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher and Billie Lourd.
It’s a bit flowy but I think it adds to the more thoughtfeel it is supposed to inspire as the first chapter delves into duos that step into the same career as their elder to make their own way most notebly with Diana Ross and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Chapter 2 discussess the impact of mothers that have died when the daughters are young and how their presence and lessons they learned or heard help them with the loss like Pheobe Ephron and Nora Ephron.
Chapter 3 details the ample support and biggest fans for each others work such as the Williams women.
Chapter 4 touches on the shadow that one might feel in the face of an ubertalented parent or spouse like Linda McCartney and Stella to their husband/father, Paul.
Chapter 5 talks about vulnerability and communication as a way to deepen that connection such as the Smith’s Red Table Talk.
The final chapter details the strength and importance of having your mother during your toughest moment like Chanel leaning on her mother, May May Miller after her assault.
These are short bios of two-three pages but their message comes across poignantly as Freidenrich uses their own words from interviews to portray the warmth and genuine love between all these women. I also learned a bit about celebrities I never knew like the chef Alice Waters and Bollywood star, Sridevi Kapoor.
So a lovely mother-daughter book that will inform and possible spark some conversation about the strength and complexity of the bond.
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The Lunar Chronicles: Stars Above Review
With this lovely anthology of stories, Meyer returns to the world of the Lunar Chronicles, filling in the gaps, revealing angst, sweetness and turning point moments in their lives.
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The Lunar Chronicles: Fairest Review
Meyer does it again with this prequel to her popular Lunar Chronicles series. Fairest is technically a prequel as it sets up events years before Cinder but it was released between Cress and Winter. But since it’s such a stand-alone you can read it before, after or in between. The main point is to give insight to the mysterious Lunar queen, Levana before she became the fairest and most manipulative ruler in the realm.
When Levana was princess, she was ugly and invisible.
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