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June 6, 2017
Join me June 8-21 as I hop around the interwebz to visit these...
Join me June 8-21 as I hop around the interwebz to visit these great blogs to talk about Grrrls on the Side. You’ll get exclusive content, giveaways and more! And don’t forget to follow #GRRRLSTour on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter for even more angry ‘90s feminist shenanigans!
8 June - Diverse Reader
8 June - The Novel Approach
9 June - Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words
12 June - Unquietly Me
13 June - Just Love Reviews
15 June - Molly Lolly
16 June - From Top to Bottom Reviews
19 June - Parker William...
June 5, 2017
This Book Will Riot Your World - My Advanced Review of “Grrrls On The Side”, by Carrie Pack
Let me start by stating the obvious :
I am not American.
(Shocker? Really?)
I just point that out to say that the 90s were vastly different in Europe (at least in France) than it was in the U.S.
So to say that I was very interested in @carriepack new novel would be an understatement, both on an intellectual point of view and a personal one.
See, having fat, bisexual character as the lead of a book is not something I’m used to, and definitely something I could have used when I...
Riot Grrrls and Trigger Warnings
My novel Grrrls on the Side, (Duet, June 8, 2017), takes place during the Riot Grrrl movement of the early to mid-’90s. The young women who considered themselves Riot Grrrls were feminists, activists and artists. They participated in the punk scene, created zines, marched on Washington, spoke out about rape culture, and demanded to be heard. But like many young women and teens, they were often derided for their choices and for daring to speak out.
It was an imperfect movement that was often c...
This Book Will Make You Rebel : An Advanced Review of Carrie Pack’s Grrrls On The Side
This book took me back 20 years or so ago and yet every emotion rung contemporary and true.
Carrie Pack @carriepack does a wonderful job in pulling the reader into Tabitha’s world, her mind, her worries and her growth.
Many Tabithas and Jackies are today’s leaders of the resistance against injustice.
A lot of moments in the book felt like Pack had a time machine to my own teenage years, so it only increased my own appreciation of the story. That being said, as a European woman, a...
June 2, 2017
"I’m not this sex-crazed maniac or anything, but I’m a human being. I think about sex. Girls think..."
- From Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy. Get your copy today. (via heidireadsya)
May 30, 2017
buckylouie:Shoutout to fat girls in the summertime. Shoutout to fat girls who wear jeans even though...
Shoutout to fat girls in the summertime. Shoutout to fat girls who wear jeans even though it’s 90 degrees because they don’t like the way their legs look. Shoutout to fat girls who wear a t-shirt to swim because they don’t like the way people look at their stretch marks. Shoutout to fat girls that only wear dresses with sleeves because they don’t like that their arms aren’t perfectly proportioned. Shoutout to fat girls who wear cardigans with button-downs because they don’t like th...
"…the universal themes of finding one’s voice and community will resonate with all readers."
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School Library Journal review of Grrrls on the Side by Carrie Pack
Grrrls on the Side is available fro pre-order from the IP Web Store and other select book retailers. Pre-order the print edition direct from Interlude/Duet and receive the multi-format ebook for free.
(via interludepress)
do you know of any lgbt books with fat sapphics in them?
I do in YA! Check out The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember and Grrrls on the Side by Carrie Pack (which releases in about a week). Anyone know of any others in books older than YA? I keep wanting to suggest Thea de Salle’s books because she has both fat and Sapphic MCs but I don’t think she has one who’s both…
bibliosapphic:
Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
Welcome to Andover…...
Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship—only it turns out to be for the town’s most heinous supervillain. On the upside, she gets to work with her longtime secret crush, Abby, who...
May 28, 2017
carriepack:
“Sure, I’m fat, whatever. That doesn’t bother me...
“Sure, I’m fat, whatever. That doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the nonstop judgment I get for it.” — Tabitha Denton, Grrrls on the Side
Pre-order Grrrls on the Side from Amazon, Target or for Nook. Available from Duet Books, the YA imprint of Interlude Press on June 8, 2017.
Pre-order the print edition from Interlude Press by June 8 and get the multiformat ebook package for free! Details HERE.
