Skating Books

[SkateGuard]

The new anthology book Athlete Is Agender: True Stories of LGBTQ+ People In Sports features essays by Karina Manta, Adam Rippon and A.J. Sass:

Athlete Is Agender: True Stories Of Lgbtq+ People In Sports ('po') | Indigo

Buy the book Athlete Is Agender: True Stories of LGBTQ+ People in Sports by at Indigo

www.indigo.ca

 

[TanithandBenFan]

The Favorites Kindle ebook is on sale for $1.99 for a very limited time

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1QKJLYT?_bbid=270725076&tag=bookbubemail1-20

 

[ChelleC]

The Favorites Kindle ebook is on sale for $1.99 for a very limited time

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1QKJLYT?_bbid=270725076&tag=bookbubemail1-20

I was just coming to post this. I inwardly squealed when I opened my BookBub email.

 

[Yuri]

I’m most of the way through The Favourites. The take on the Russians, particularly the quotes from the bitch coach, is She got everything in there but American fans eating cheeseburgers.

For an author who’s not a skater or skating expert she did a very good job. I hate audiobooks but casting Johnny as Ellis must be brilliant.

I finished reading The Favorites book a couple days ago and it was a perfect beach read, particularly for an ice dancing fan! OMG I was hearing Johnny Weir in my head as Ellis Dean seemed like a cross between him and Dave Lease (if he had been a forgotten Olympic skater)! I agree the author really caught a sense of the figure skating world without being part of it herself. I really appreciated her use of the real-life venues and Grand Prix series in an otherwise fictional tale, as well as capturing the changes in the ice dancing rules, elements and scoring methodologies over the time span of the book. I didn't catch any glaring errors.

But I really cracked up when about halfway through the book when I decided to read the Wikipedia article on Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and compared the main character names of The Favorites to it! OMG, it's just too funny! SO CLEVER! I think that I need to read Wuthering Heights next to compare the plot lines as well as the multi-narrator style of both novels.