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

Posted on November 12, 2016 by

(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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Stories From The Twilight Zone By Rod Serling

Posted on September 3, 2016 by

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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The Dollhouse Murders By Betty Ren Wright

Posted on October 30, 2015 by

The old dollhouse was trying to tell Amy something… Just in time for Halloween: ghosts, an unsolved double murder and AN INAPPROPRIATE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY! The Plot: Amy Treloar, just weeks away from her 13th birthday, struggles with her feelings regarding … Continue reading →

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Rhapsody in Orange and Brown: 15 Favorite Classic YA Covers

Posted on September 10, 2014 by

A few weeks back there was a something of a kerfuffle over Penguin’s 50th Anniversary cover of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I was a holder of the minority opinion that the new cover was kind of  great… at least … Continue reading →

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A Date With Danger By Jane McManus

Posted on July 31, 2013 by

A cold hand on a shoulder, a haunting nightmare, a gunshot that rings through a still forest. So sharpen your senses… and look over your shoulder. You’ve got A Date With Danger. Every once in a while, I come across … Continue reading →

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Movie Madness and/or Mania: A Bucket Of Blood (Roger Corman 1959)

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

If might be pushing it to say that artistic merit distinguishes Roger Corman’s contributions to the low-budget teenpic of the 1950s; it’s more like technical competence: the actors are believable enough, the boom stays out of the shots, and the … Continue reading →

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Party Line By A. Bates

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

1989 is the nominal endpoint of books that I plan on covering here- I always find it interesting that the relatively recent books date so much more quickly than their older counterparts. If this book had been written in the … Continue reading →

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