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If you are at all into food, here's a delicious one
A review of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

 Lucy Knisley loves food.  Hey, me, too!  So I couldn't wait to read this new graphic novel from the author of French Milk.  It's a collection of vignettes and happy, Technicolor graphics about Lucy's life with food.  Her mother is a chef and her father is a gourmet, so her relationship with food is certainly rich and delicious.  She shares her special food memories from childhood and adolescence ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on May 21, 2013 | 0 comments

More hot pink superheroes, please
A review of Who is AC? by Hope Larson and Tintin Pantoja

 All of Hope Larson's books feature strong female characters, dreamy/magical elements and cool artwork. Her latest graphic novel is somewhat different from her previous works, Gray Horses, Chiggers, and Mercury in that it's about a teenage superhero and illustrated by ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on May 9, 2013 | 0 comments

Lean way in, just a little bit further, and just a little bit further still
A review of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

 I think most of us know who the Facebook guy, Mark Zuckerberg, is and have heard of the movie The Social Network. But do we know about Facebook's second in command? Sheryl Sandberg is the C.O.O. of Facebook and currently number eight on "Fortune" magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list. She has an amazing resume that includes both an A.B ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on April 30, 2013 | 0 comments
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Feminism in reverse? No way!
A review of The Six Sisters series by Marion Chesney

 I have been listening to an entertaining Regency romance series about six marriageable sisters while I fold laundry. Their father is a country vicar with money woes and he manages to marry off his daughters to ever richer husbands in order to sustain his expensive hunting habits. Each of the six Armitage daughters gets her own novel and although I'm only on book four, each book has ended in a happy marriage so far. I suspect that all six do. I'll be very disappointed if they don't. Between the ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on April 9, 2013 | 0 comments

Let's whittle our wardrobes down to 10 items! Who's with me?
A review of Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned while Living in Paris by Jennifer L. Scott

 The Huffington Post recently published an article about the 10-Item Capsule Wardrobe and at the time I read the article I thought, no way, man! I can't do that and I don't want to! Then I read about the idea again in the book Lessons from Madame Chic written by The Daily Connoisseur blogger, Jennifer ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on March 28, 2013 | 0 comments

I want to be her or her or her (and me)
A review of I Want to Be Her!: How Friends and Strangers Helped Shape My Style by Andrea Linett

 This is a cool little book. It's kind of a style memoir written by an established fashion editor. Andrea Linett's first job out of school was as a receptionist at Sassy magazine (the magazine that profoundly influenced my own style), where she quickly worked her way up to fashion editor. After a stint as a fashion writer and editor at Harper's Bazaar, she went on to co-found ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on March 20, 2013 | 0 comments

Wow. Just wow.
A review of The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

 Katherine Applegate was recently awarded the 2013 Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American Literature for Children for her book The One and Only Ivan. I completely agree. This may be one of the best books I've ever read.  Ivan is a silverback gorilla living in a run-down roadside circus mall (I know, I know, but these places really do exist) with Stella, a retired circus ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on March 13, 2013 | 3 comments

Don't eat that!
A review of Peanut by Ayun Halliday

 Starting a new high school is not easy. Starting a new high school under false pretenses is even harder. Starting a new high school while faking a peanut allergy? Oh, that's not going to end well. Sadie Wildhack fakes a peanut allergy in order to make friends at her new high school and it totally backfires. Even though peanut allergies may be life threatening, they're just not glamorous enough to sway jaded high school students into providing a)sympathy b)respect c)friendship. Or are they? The ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on February 27, 2013 | 0 comments

Little ballerinas with big troubles
A review of The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan

 Ballerinas.  Belle époque Paris.  Poverty.  Prostitution.  Edward Degas.  Sisterhood.  Painted girls. Cathy Marie Buchanan lovingly creates a portrait of what life might have been like for Marie van Goethem, the subject of Edward Degas's sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.  Marie and her sisters struggle to subsist while dancing and performing at the Paris ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on February 21, 2013 | 0 comments

Mind your manners, please
A review of How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran

 I really, really like Caitlin (pronounced Catlin) Moran. She's a British broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times that's taken the world by storm with her comedy writing. I think her book How to Be a Woman is refreshingly honest and smart and I wish I had her hair. I love that she is in her late 30s and still rocking tights with cut-offs and Doc ...read more

Reviewed by Molly - Central on February 11, 2013 | 0 comments

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