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Super_Jane
Spiral | Bal Khabra
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Pickpick

4.25/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘

“It‘s never going to be just a kiss for me. Once I do this, Sage, I won‘t be able to stop.”

#romance #sports #hockey #ballet

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TheSpineView
Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild
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#CoverStories #Shoes @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My granddaughters loved this series, especially my youngest one. This was her favorite along with skating shoes.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cute cover 💗 2w
Eggs 💖👌🏼💗 2w
TheSpineView @Eggs 👍📖 2w
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LiseWorks
Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cute cover 💙 2w
Eggs So pretty 2w
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vlwelser
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Pickpick

This is incredibly interesting. 5 Black ballerinas, famous (in their own way) during the 70s and 80s, tell their stories. Another rec from @TheBookHippie that I borrowed for my IRL NF book club.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheBookHippie I adored this. 🩰 2w
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w
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LibrarianRyan
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Pickpick

4 ⭐ A lovely book about a girl who loves to dance. Her mother grants her wish and tales her to dance school. There she feels out of step and wilted. But a special pair of shoes will help her re-find confidence in herself. She had the ability the entire time she just had to be reminded to be herself and do what she loves. This is a sweet book. The illustrations are lovely. The illustrator is Diane Good. I‘m not sure if that‘s the fancy Nancy

LibrarianRyan illustrator but the illustrations remind me of that. Overall, this was a lovely book and does sound like something that Sarah Ferguson would write or tell her children.

#Celebrityauthor
2mo
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BookishTrish
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Mehso-so

I loved the author‘s first book and had high expectations for this one. I LOVE reading about Russian ballerinas. I‘m not sure why, but I feel like I was being kept at a remove from these characters. It was difficult to root for them or empathize.

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Librarybelle
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Light pick. This offers a glimpse into the politics of Russian ballet, told in dual timelines from the MC Natasha‘s perspective. There‘s a lot not to like about Natasha, but her determination and perseverance in dance is noteworthy. Natasha slowly tells her story, and for me the slow pace of the story would have been better reading a physical book rather than listening to the audio. Honestly, I struggled with the audio and the voice actress. ⬇️

Librarybelle ⬆️ Her inflections in sentences seemed to be in the wrong place. At times, the story was portrayed with little emotion, and at other times too much emotion. This works well with some stories, but I‘m not sure that was the best choice for this one. My recommendation: read the book, skip the audio. 3mo
LeeRHarry I have this one to pick up from the library. 3mo
Librarybelle @LeeRHarry I hope you enjoy! 3mo
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Charityann
The Nutcracker | Jennifer Adams
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Here‘s my cheesy Hallmark movie blurb!😆 Would you watch or read this? 🎄📺📖🕯️#christmaschapterchasers #wintergames @StayCurious

dabbe I'd definitely read this! 💙❄️💙 4mo
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marleed
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I stacked this book expecting to read HS inspired by the Russian art world defections. Good thing the MC explained early on she was 7 in 1992 so I could adjust my head to a current story. It was hard to root for the MC, Natalia, because she was so self-involved (as her profession demands). She tells the reader her sweat doesn‘t smell and describes herself among the great artists so it becomes obvious her character is one to simply observe.

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booklover3258
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel | Mark Siegel, Siena Cherson Siegel
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Nice small graphic about the author's life leading to her becoming a ballerina.

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