‘I don’t want two wishy-washy godmothers,’ Jeannie had said that afternoon in the country hospital when Eliza was only a day old. ‘No dolls. No pink dresses. Just lots of adventures. Lots of spoiling. The pair of you like two mighty warriors protecting her at every step.’ Eliza Miller grew up in Australia as the

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Tender Morselsby Margo LanaganPages: 464ISBN: 0375843051Link: GoodreadsFormat: PaperbackPublished on: February 9th 2010 (first published October 14th 2008)Published by: Knopf Books for Young ReadersReviewTrigger Warning: Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan contains instances rape and incest. Furthermore, I don’t think it’s possible to discuss the book without mentioning those plot elements as part of the review. Margo Lanagan’s Tender Morsels is

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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Cultureby Peggy OrensteinPages: 288ISBN: 0061711527Link: GoodreadsFormat: HardcoverPublished on: February 1st 2011Published by: HarperReviewI was looking forward to reading Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, despite not having a daughter myself. While reading Orenstein’s book,

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A Wind in the Doorby Madeleine L’EnglePages: 240ISBN: 0312368542Link: GoodreadsFormat: PaperbackPublished on: May 1st 2007 (first published 1973)Published by: Square FishSet about a year after A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind In the Door follows Meg Murry and Calvin O’Keefe on a quest to save Meg’s brother, Charles Wallace. Charles Wallace has a medical condition

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