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Reflections

Eager reader of history, mystery, classics, biographies, steampunk, lit fic, science, scifi, and etc. My reviews are mostly positive--I rarely finish or write about books I don't enjoy. My TBR is too high for that.

Fiction's problem with female beauty

A New Yorker blog post by   author of the novel The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. on the tendency of fiction writers to populate their books with effortlessly beautiful people, especially women, without meaningfully addressing the guilty issues we have with physical beauty.

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/10/a-first-rate-girl-the-problem-of-female-beauty.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailyemail&mbid=nl_Daily%20(33)

Source: http://jaylia3.booklikes.com/post/570921/fiction-s-problem-with-female-beauty