Tag Archives: 1986

Hawaiian Christmas (Super Seniors #2) By Eileen Goudge

Posted on December 22, 2021 by mondomolly

An island reunion of romance, surf and sun! The cover is telling: this book is just as busy and confusing yet generic as the graphic design choices. I had to defer to the folks at Fantastic Fiction over how to … Continue reading →

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I Never Asked You To Understand Me By Barthe DeClements

Posted on December 9, 2021 by mondomolly

Stacy didn’t look like a reject, and I didn’t think I did either. We were just having too hard a time… I have reviewed a number of Barthe DeClements’s books over the past few years, starting with the not-quite-Lost Classic … Continue reading →

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Kessa By Steven Levenkron

Posted on April 12, 2021 by mondomolly

Kessa… Now she is out of the hospital, but the most difficult part of her journey has just begun. A few weeks ago we revisited The Best Little Girl in the World, Steven Levenkron’s 1978 classic about a rich white … Continue reading →

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This Place Has No Atmosphere By Paula Danziger

Posted on May 13, 2018 by mondomolly

In the year 2057, zits and cliques are still around, but people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots! Paula Danziger is best remembered for The Cat Ate My Gym Suit, a bright and funny book about … Continue reading →

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The Wrong Love By Kathryn Makris

Posted on February 3, 2017 by mondomolly

He’s the only one she wants. Desperately in search of some light reading, this nonetheless turned out to be a weirdly timely choice: the issue of the economic interdependence of the U.S. and Mexico backgrounds this rather low-stakes teen romance. … Continue reading →

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Couples #18: Kiss and Run By M.E. Cooper

Posted on December 10, 2016 by mondomolly

Was their kiss the end of a perfect friendship or the beginning or something special? Somehow I failed to notice that I was picking up #18 in a series (I think I assumed that “Couples” was a Scholastic imprint, like … Continue reading →

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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Heartburn By Nora Ephron

Posted on September 4, 2015 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2015 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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Someone Else (First Love From Silhouette #173) By Becky Stuart

Posted on December 11, 2014 by mondomolly

“No matter how happy you are, you always want to be someone else.” First Love From Silhouette (“America’s Publisher of Contemporary Romance”) can always be counted on to provide a holiday-themed title… Dammit, is this one of the ones with … Continue reading →

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Missing Since Monday By Ann M. Martin

Posted on January 14, 2014 by mondomolly

Maggies’s little sister was the first to disappear. Would Maggie be next? Background: Ann M. Martin got her start as an editor and house writer for Scholastic (one of her first published titles was for Scholastic’s Wildfire YA romance imprint); … Continue reading →

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Famous Last Words (First Love From Silhouette #199) By Becky Stuart

Posted on September 10, 2013 by mondomolly

So, this is usually the part where if the book was terrible, I still tell you all how despite the fact that this book was The Worst, I still I love you and how that I was duty-bound to read … Continue reading →

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