• Home
  • About
  • Revisiting Prydain
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
  • Revisiting Prydain
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Contact

Alicia Brown

Author

Category: body image

Atlanta Writers Club, body image, fun books, habits, reading, self-help, writing

What I’m Reading: Shine On

It’s not every day that I’m reading a book and suddenly up pops a mention of me, right there on the page. But that’s exactly what happened while I was reading Claire Cook’s “Shine On: How to Grow Awesome Instead […]

February 29, 2016by Alicia Brown
body image, fun books, reading, short stories

What I’m Reading: The Middlesteins

More a collection of linked short stories than a novel, Jami Attenberg’s “The Middlesteins” paints a family portrait from a number of different perspectives. Each chapter is told from the POV of a different character, among them matriarch Edie, a […]

October 13, 2014by Alicia Brown
body image, news, teens, writing

Body image isn’t always about size

I’ve been reading some of the media coverage of “Lammily,” the crowdfunded alternative to Barbie that has “average proportions.” Despite her weird name (I think it sounds like mammary), a lot of people seem to like the idea of a […]

March 7, 2014by Alicia Brown
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Sin by vsFish.