25. #PopsugarReading Challenge: Shine Your Icy Crown

Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book you can read in one sitting
Book: Shine Your Icy Crown, by Amanda Lovelace

Each of Amanda Lovelace's books is filled with short, deceptively simple poems, usually with a tagline at the end instead of a title. Some could almost be called inspirational quotes instead of poems. But the poems fit together into something larger, a story about surviving and prevailing against the odds.

The theme of Shine Your Icy Crown is the Snow Queen from fairy tales, and how choosing independence will get a woman labeled cold or even frigid. The poems celebrate her icy crown and her willingness to be whole all by herself.The dedication gives a flavor of what to expect:

for every girl
who's ever been called a bitch
for speaking her mind. 

so, like, every girl.

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