{"id":477,"date":"2011-05-16T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=477"},"modified":"2011-05-16T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:33:08","slug":"bobby-blanchard-lesbian-gym-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/bobby-blanchard-lesbian-gym-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/462883697\" target=\"_blank\">Nolan, Monica. <em>Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher. <\/em>New York: Kensington Books, 2010. Paperback. 290pp. $15.00. ISBN: 978-0-7582-32069.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-478\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Cover of Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Bobby-Blanchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/>Roberta \u201cBobby\u201d Blanchard was a professional hockey player until an injury ruined her career. Now she\u2019s the new Games Mistress at an elite girls\u2019 boarding school, and feels out of her league among the talented faculty, who are experienced in more ways than one. Flirting with students, teachers, townies, and disaster, Bobby manages a busy love life while also starting an intramural hockey team and investigating a murder.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to pinpoint this playful novel as a parody of 1960s pulp fiction, but there\u2019s a lot more going on here. There is mystery (the murder investigation), romance (Bobby plays the field but ends up a happy monogamist), sports (everything from hockey to modern dance), and goth (a blundering ing\u00e9nue! a deathbed confession!). The sex is mostly offscreen, but there are lots of butch\/femme distinctions, as well as far more sports and education metaphors for sex than you\u2019d think possible. The tag line says it all: \u201cShe schooled them in field hockey \u2026 and desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nolan\u2019s second novel (after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/124966133\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary<\/em><\/a>) is a treat, a romp, a book to bring to the beach (and peep over at the cute young femme on the next towel).<\/p>\n<p>Recommended, especially for fans of Mabel Maney.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Daisy Porter<\/strong><br \/>\nSan Jos\u00e9 Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan, Monica. Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher. New York: Kensington Books, 2010. Paperback. 290pp. $15.00. ISBN: 978-0-7582-32069. Roberta \u201cBobby\u201d Blanchard was a professional hockey player until an injury ruined her career. Now she\u2019s the new Games Mistress at an elite girls\u2019 boarding school, and feels out of her league among the talented faculty, who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}