Confessions of a Non-Barbie: A Real Girl’s Guide to Finding Beauty and Pursuing Happily Ever-After
Kinda Wilson
Harrison House, 176 pp., $10.99, HarrisonHouse.com
The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl’s Guide to Feminine Grace
Leslie Ludy
Harvest House Publishers, 172 pp., $10.99, HarvestHousePublishers.com
Kinda Wilson is tired of dating Jesus and suspects the feeling is mutual. Confessions of a Non-Barbie compiles charts, lists, comics, moody poetry, timelines, receipts from dinner dates gone wrong, postcards from teen year survivors and micro-chapters dishing on everything from ugly days and loneliness to recovering from the dreaded slam-dump.
If Wilson’s Confessions is dating prep, Leslie Ludy’s The Lost Art of True Beauty is finishing school. Decidedly more ladylike in tone, Ludy’s princess lessons for the daughter of the King promote social grace, selfless beauty and modest mystique inspired by Scripture, her own marriage and writing, Audrey Hepburn and Amy Carmichael.
