Tag Archives: 1960

Leave It To Beaver By Beverly Cleary

Posted on September 19, 2021 by mondomolly

You’ve had fun watching Beaver on T.V. Now have fun reading about him… When I have reviewed Beverly Cleary’s work here in the past, I have opened by invoking “Leave It To Beaver,” and it’s not just because both works … Continue reading →

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Wrapping Up The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? By Henry Farrell

Posted on November 24, 2019 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2019 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature.  For the titles that have filmed adaptations, we will also be looking at the movies as we go along. This week, … Continue reading →

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Stories From The Twilight Zone By Rod Serling

Posted on September 3, 2016 by mondomolly

Watch Rod Serling’s exciting series THE TWILIGHT ZONE each week on the CBS television network. So, one of my OTHER projects this summer was to watch or re-watch all five seasons of The Twilight Zone, a series that has loomed large … Continue reading →

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Donna Parker: A Spring to Remember (#4) By Marcia Martin

Posted on October 9, 2015 by mondomolly

Donna had no way of knowing that things would happen before graduation that would completely change her feelings toward her friend. Whitman-o-rama month continues with Marcia Martin’s extremely pleasant series on junior high school life in the 1950s-60s. Background: When last … Continue reading →

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Student Nurse By Bernard and Marjorie Palmer

Posted on August 6, 2013 by mondomolly

I think I’ve become an unexpected fan of Bernard and Marjorie Palmer’s “Career Books” girls’ series published by the Moody Bible Institute. While the stories are simple in the extreme, it is refreshing to read a series where the plot … Continue reading →

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