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[mamahadtolistentoallthisdrama]

As my hubs will tell you, I’m always a little late to the party. But, the kind souls at @ktliterary sent me a much anticipated book, MICHIGAN VS. THE BOYS, so I decided to jump aboard the #slapshotreadathon. - 🏒. Synopsis: When a determined girl is confronted with the culture of toxic masculinity, it's time to even the score. - 📚. Michigan Manning lives for hockey, and this is her year to shine. That is, until she gets some crushing news: budget cuts will keep the girls' hockey team off the ice this year. - 📚. If she wants colleges to notice her, Michigan has to find a way to play. Luckily, there's still one team left in town ... - 📚. The boys' team isn't exactly welcoming, but Michigan's prepared to prove herself. She plays some of the best hockey of her life, in fact, all while putting up with changing in the broom closet, constant trash talk and ?harmless? pranks that always seem to target her. - 📚. But once hazing crosses the line into assault, Michigan must weigh the consequences of speaking up --- even if it means putting her future on the line. - 🏒. A determined girl?!? Hockey?!? I really didn’t need to read further to be interested. Most of you know that for years, when we lived in the Bay Area, hubs and I were San Jose Sharks season ticket holders. I used to call it marriage therapy. Seeing a live hockey game is truly fun, and it’s something I wish we could do more often. - 🏒. I promise to give you a full review of the book as soon as I finish it. But, for now, the kiddos are on Fall Break, I have an excellent book to read and hockey season has started! Here’s to Fall! - 🏒. 🏒. 🏒. #readathon #bookstagram #bookreview #ktliterary #michiganvstheboys #yabooks #ireadya #kidscanpress #carriesallen #booklr #fallbreak #hockeybooks #tbr #currentlyreading #beartown #hockey https://www.instagram.com/p/B3SaxdwgGoa/?igshid=g1xqs0xfwpnh

[kelfurgalicious]

⚡️My best reads of 2019! ✨Check the link in my bio for my favourite books of the last year! 💫 • 2019 was a noteworthy year in my own “life book”: I spent most of the year pregnant (see above photo), created some exciting work projects, started new traditions, made new friends, learned about loss firsthand, celebrated my son Xavier’s 4th birthday, celebrated my 8 year wedding anniversary, learned of dementia in a loved one, shed tears of both happiness and sadness, shared wonderful meals with friends and family, and had my beautiful son Finnick. • Maybe because this year was so impactful for me personally, I was inspired to read more memoirs and nonfiction pieces. I didn’t realize it, but I looked to other people’s stories as a source of inspiration. And now I’m happy to be entering 2020 inspired and fired up! 🔥 • Some of my favourite reads of 2019 include books by @tara.westover, @tjenkinsreid, @katucker_, @cassieclare1, #gailhoneyman, @carriesallen, @michelleobama, @officialmelb, @jodikantor and #megantwohey. Let me know what yours were, and hopefully I’ll have time to read even more this year! • Photo cred: @i_toye at @sohohousechicago (at Soho House Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7AUcSnn-hx/?igshid=13xau9aqpcrwe

[theheartofabookblogger]

Head over to the blog (link in bio) today to see my recap of @pasadenalovesya! I’m giving a sneak peak right now by showing off my book haul! I found CITY OF GHOSTS at the Friends of the Library, but the rest of the books were from the book blitz at the end of the day! A few of these books are ones I’ve been wanting to read for a while now and a couple are completely new to me! • • Have you read any of these books? • • • #pasadenalovesya #plya19 #fratgirl #kileyroache #inkyardpress #austenland #midnightinaustenland #shannonhale #bloomsbury #torightthewrongs #sherylscarborough #torteen #cityofghosts #victoriaschwab #scholastic #noplacetofall #jayerobinbrown #harperteen #epicreads #thebloodspell #cjredwine #michiganvstheboys #carriesallen #kcploft #bookhaul  #bookstack #bookstacks #booksandleaves #bookobsessed #booksbooksbooks

[ktliterary]

Congrats to Carrie Allen!

I’m so thrilled to share the news of the sale of Carrie Allen’s amazing MICHIGAN VS. THE BOYS to KCP Loft! I have long wanted a great teen athlete story, and (to mix a metaphor) Carrie knocked it out of the park. You can read the short pitch below, but I wanted to share something a little extra. In this time of #MeToo, girls in many sports still have to fight to be heard, to be treated as equals to boys they surpass on almost every level. When we took this manuscript out on submission, I asked Carrie to write a short author’s note that I could include with the manuscript, to speak to the timeliness of the story. This is what I got, and I’m thrilled to share it with you:

My agent Kate has asked that I write an Author’s Note to explain why I wrote MICHIGAN VS. THE BOYS and why this story is timely.

Timely?? My own stories that inspired scenes in the book feel like ancient history. Twenty years ago, my bra was stolen out of the locker room that I had to share with my all-male rec team, because there was no place else for me to change. Eighteen years ago, I was flashed by a male teammate from the shower room, dared by his buddies, of course. Fifteen years ago, at the USA Hockey referee certification seminar, a teenage boy followed me into the parking lot and asked me to flash him. Twelve years ago, a youth coach was kicked out of a tournament for grabbing his crotch at me while I officiated his team’s game.

They never managed to chase me off.

This is not a memoir; my stories are different from Michigan’s. But every girl in hockey has those stories. Olympians from the women’s national team have changed in the rink’s broom closet, same as the rest of us. We’ve all endured slurs on the ice. Hilary Knight, arguably the best in the women’s game right now, took hell from the parents — the PARENTS — of her male teammates when she was an adolescent.

I wrote this book because, twenty-five years after my own hockey experiences began, the stories are still the same.

There were 12,000 girls and women registered with USA Hockey when I began playing in 1994. There will be approximately 70,000 this season. Last spring, WNT leveraged their World Championship participation to gain better support for the women’s programs, including grass-roots opportunities for girls. They won.

Previously, it was the U.S. National Women’s Soccer Team fighting in court for equal pay. Currently, it is Denmark’s Women’s National Soccer Team, battling their own country for equality.

Billie Jean King’s story is being told through a movie as I write this. The Battle of the Sexes happened before I was born and is still timely. King’s legacy, Title IX, which just celebrated its 45th birthday, is under fire as legislators attempt to slash sexual assault protections on college campuses. In my sport alone, there are 70,000 girls walking into broom closets every day, steeling themselves against the insults that will come this season.

Women’s equality and opportunity in sports is always timely.

MICHIGAN is for this girl, and countless like her, and I can’t wait to share it with you in Fall 2019.

Please join me in congratulating Carrie on Twitter at @CarrieSAllen!

Congrats to Carrie Allen! was originally published on kt literary

[kelfurgalicious]

#Repost @kelfurgalicious with @get_repost ・・・ The hottest Fall reads from @kcploft are here! Click the link in my bio for my full Morning Show segment and reviews. Big thanks to @morningshowca for having me; it’s always a pleasure! (It’s always great when your segment is produced by @sparksvicky, too). Happy Reading, all! And thanks for the support 🥰💫📚🤓 @morganbaden @barrylyga @thejenniferbeals @carriesallen (at The Morning Show) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2l1wDyF5H4/?igshid=1cj9d7ifnem4x

[kelfurgalicious]

The hottest Fall reads from @kcploft are here! Click the link in my bio for my full Morning Show segment and reviews. Big thanks to @morningshowca for having me; it’s always a pleasure! (It’s always great when your segment is produced by @sparksvicky, too). Happy Reading, all! And thanks for the support 🥰💫📚🤓 @morganbaden @barrylyga @thejenniferbeals @carriesallen (at The Morning Show) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2kyWzVnd8I/?igshid=otvoshdz07b8