CORA Roll Call: Kinky Gazpacho

August 13, 2009 Read Comments
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I was over visiting and checking out the current CORA Diversity Roll Call over at the Color Online blog. This week is covering food and memoirs so the first book to come to my mind was a memoir that I read last year. Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love, and Spain by Lori L. Tharps was an intriguing memoir that raises lots of questions about race and identity. It's a coming-of-age tale not only of the author's journey into womanhood but also of her own preconceived notions of what it really means … [Read more...]

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What A Difference A Cover Makes

August 6, 2009 Leave a Comment
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Publisher's Weekly broke the news the Bloomsbury has decided to change the cover for Justine Larbalestier's novel, Liar. Based on my previous post, Judging a Book By Its Cover, it's interesting that Bloomsbury invested money to change this book jacket and not keep the "whitewashed" cover. I must say that I'm surprised that they chose to go with a similar cover. I thought that they would just go with maybe an abstract cover without a cover model. Will this cover satisfy everyone? … [Read more...]

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Judging a Book by Its Cover

July 23, 2009 Leave a Comment

As many of you know who read my blog, Liar by Justine Larbalestier is on my TBR list. When I read the jacketflap, I was all over it. Micah is a pathological liar. Did she kill her boyfriend? Was he even her boyfriend? These were the questions that popped in my mind and got me interested. So at this point, the cover art wasn't an issue. It wasn't until I read an excerpt off of Justine L.'s blog that the character described herself as black and having "nappy hair" that she wore close cropped … [Read more...]

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Wanted: More Diversity

July 8, 2009 Leave a Comment

After drinking lots of coffee, I think I'm finally awake! I have plenty to do at the day job today but as I was downing the last of my coffee, I came across this fascinating blog post at Chasing Ray. In the post, What A Girls Wants #3: Representing All The Girls, Colleen states: "In the sea of titles with straight white female (blonde) main characters, there are disturbingly few that are African American, Native American, Jewish, Muslim, Asian American, Indian, LBGT and on and … [Read more...]

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