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The Billionaire Bait-and-Switch: For the Love of Lit Crit
{This is less review and more analysis. It goes without saying that there are spoilers all up in here, so be warned.} I had no business reading this book. My only defense is that the blurb said the...
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Space, Science, and the Gender of Perfection
{Courting Critique is a post series that takes an analytic and intersectional feminist look at romance texts — not so much to prove that romance is feminist or anti-feminist, but because good criticism...
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All The Iron Filings Line Up Nice and Neat
1. Magnetism seems magical not least because it is invisible. It acts semi-secretly in plain sight, whether it’s holding one photo suspended on a refrigerator door or protecting all of Earth from the...
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Hurt/Comfort: Two Shapeshifting Books Reviewed
Lately, and quite accidentally, I read three books in a row that involved shapeshifting or similar transformations. I’m going to talk about two of them. RoAnn Sylver’s Chameleon Moon (kindly loaned to...
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Woman Inherits the Earth: Dinosaur Feminism and Virgin Births
Their children will surely be dangerous. Men don’t want them having children. So men create expensive, inefficient, and cruel systems to control the potential for reproduction. This is the secret...
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