Tag Archives: 1974

It’s Not What You Expect By Norma Klein

Posted on March 31, 2019 by mondomolly

Suddenly, summer becomes a time of self-discovery… Norma Klein is best known for her controversy-courting YA novels of the 1970s; in books like Angel Face and Love is One of the Choices, the teenaged protagonists deal regularly with drugs, sex, … Continue reading →

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Three Decades of Short Fiction from SEVENTEEN Magazine

Posted on July 8, 2018 by mondomolly

Like its older sisters in the field of mass-market women’s magazines (everything from Cosmopolitan to Woman’s Day) Seventeen featured a great deal of short fiction in its pages from its debut in 1944. Some of these were reprinted in anthologies, … Continue reading →

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Down A Dark Hall By Lois Duncan

Posted on September 21, 2017 by mondomolly

Why does the exclusive boarding school Blackwood have only four students? Back to school! Time to start the year with a good attitude cautionary tale wacky scheme inspirational message epic wish-fulfillment fantasy  slightly anachronistic feminist career romance Eh, whatever, let’s just do another Lois Duncan… … Continue reading →

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Wrapping Up The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Carrie By Stephen King

Posted on November 12, 2016 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2016 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature. As all of the four selected titles have filmed adaptations, we will be looking at the movie versions as we go along. … Continue reading →

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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: The Love Boats By Jeraldine Saunders

Posted on September 29, 2016 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2016 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature.  This month, the August selection, Jeraldine Saunders’s The Love Boats.)  I was somewhat reticent to get into another swingin’ travel industry expose, after … Continue reading →

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The Long Shot: A Kim Aldrich Mystery (#4) By Jinny McDonnell

Posted on October 16, 2015 by mondomolly

It’s an adventure Kim will never forget, when she and Kevin, an attentive boys’ camp counselor, stalk a vicious kidnapper-killer through the mountain wilderness… Time to wrap up this year’s month-long look at vintage girls series published by Whitman in the … Continue reading →

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A Billion For Boris By Mary Rodgers

Posted on June 5, 2015 by mondomolly

Enclosed please find a detailed account of a most unusual experience recently undergone by me, my brother and a friend of mine who lives upstairs in our apartment building… Background: Broadway composer Mary Rodgers (daughter of composer Richard, mother of composer … Continue reading →

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The Deep Six: A Kim Aldrich Mystery (#3) By Jinny McDonnell

Posted on November 6, 2014 by mondomolly

Kim Aldrich once again proves that trouble and danger just naturally seek her out… Time to wrap up this year’s month-long look at vintage girls series published by Whitman in the 50s, 60s, and 70s; and (as usual) we will … Continue reading →

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Slake’s Limbo By Felice Holman

Posted on July 9, 2014 by mondomolly

To his family and teachers he was a nuisance; to his peers he was a target. The Plot: So. That was weird. Sometimes that is the only reaction I have when I get to the end of one of these. Kids … Continue reading →

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Imaginary Summer Book Club Update

Posted on June 16, 2014 by mondomolly

It has come to my attention that the July selection of Imaginary Summer Book Club, No Bed of Her Own By Val Lewton is hard to come by, and despite having been reissued in 2006, cost-prohibitive to obtain. In light of that … Continue reading →

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