At the end of my review for The Wedding Date, I said that if Guillory wanted to write a book about Carlos, Drew’s mischievous colleague, I would be there. Guillory gave the people what they wanted: a charming doctor with a taco habit. Nik is calmly minding her business at a Dodger game with her boyfriend of five months. She’s not so into baseball, but it’s what he wanted to do for his birthday. The boyfriend uses the opportunity to propose marriage via the Jumbotron, […]
The kids are all white
Margaret Hagerman* puts a new spin on how we race by exploring the development of racial attitudes among affluent white midwestern tweens. Hagerman interviewed children from families in three different neighborhoods in the same midwestern metropolitan area, each with varying degrees of wealth (though all families are affluent) and diversity. She interviews not only the children, but also the parents, with the goal of illustrating how children formulate ideas about race. Rather than adopting their parents’s notions of race uncritically, children engage with the world […]
Hooking up at a con still seems like a dicey proposition.
I really like this series, centered on a group of friends who are immersed (to varying degrees) in geek/gamer/STEM culture. They’re relatively short reads; Goodreads says this one clocks in at 158 pages. But the characters don’t get short-changed and the plot flows fairly easily. Our heroine, Ani is a immunology graduate student weeks away from presenting her dissertation proposal for approval. She’s had to switch advisors late in the game, and her new advisor is a mustache-twirling sexist who hopes to make her life […]
Well, someone was living her dream of a manners-free life.
While Alyssa Cole isn’t on my auto-buy list of authors*, I’m always going to check out her new releases. She writes stories with smart, engaging characters that I like spending time with. I enjoyed A Princess in Theory so much that I pre-ordered A Duke by Default as soon as it was available. I swallowed this book whole, you guys. Flighty rich girl Portia, Ledi’s friend from Theory, runs away from New York to take up a swordmaking apprenticeship in Scotland. Her master is grumpy […]