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Skate School: Stars on Ice: Kay Woodward. Usborne, 2010.

There are fewer pages without italics on them than there are pages with. This is the wrong ratio. It’s not just the dialogue of teen ice skater Frankie and friends, it’s the prose around it describing her thought process. Frankie attends ‘Skate School’ AKA the Ice Palace AKA the boarding school for potential GB competitive figure skaters( Read more... )

(Lightly edited on 5/4/21.)

Crossposts: https://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/175581.html

I meant to post this sooner, but things have been rather busy.

( Featuring The Peal Book of Girl Guide Stories, Deeanne Gist's Love on the Line, Olive L. Groom's Holly of Swanhouse, Josephine Elder's Erica Wins Through and Angela Brazil's An Exciting Term )

This is far from a timely review, as I saw it last weekend...

Fast Girls (2012) (12A)
Directed by: Regan Hill
Written by: Jay Basu, Noel Clarke, Roy Williams and Jon Croker
Starring: Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, Noel Clarke, Rupert Graves,

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt1700808/

If you’ve seen the trailer for this film, I can confirm that it doesn’t cheat you, the film is exactly what you’d expect it to be. As far as I was concerned, that was a good thing.( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://feather-ghyll.livejournal.com/72980.html

Pam Plays Doubles: Jean MacGibbon Constable 1962

I bought this years ago for 10p in a charity shop. I only remembered the story vaguely and picked it up for a reread because of the tennis theme. It's not a great book, although I liked the detail on the tennis and it was a quick read!

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I found
this marvellous list of tennis-centric novels at Tennis Collectables (and the price they’re charging for PPD makes me hug myself with glee). They mainly seem to be for children/teenagers and murder mystery/thrillers. I think the only other one I own is the Nancy Drew Case Files book.

I believe that this is the obituary of the same Jean MacGibbon (which is certainly food for thought as some of it contradicts my impressions based on PPD, while some of it supports them.)

Edited for typos at 18/2/11.

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