I just finished Don't Think Dear and give it 🩰 (that's two stars).
I am a sucker for a ballet book, especially a first person one, but this is not a good book. Basically, the author borrows heavily (probably more than is academically correct) from other published works to share how dancers like Misty Copeland and Margot Fonteyn suffered and coped with the challenges of being a ballerina. Then after quoting a ballerina extensively, Robb would write a paragraph basically agreeing with the former ballerina and then giving a two sentence "and I saw this too!" which was just annoying. No new ground is tread in this book.
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