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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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How To Find A Husband In 30 Days By Wendy Stehling

Posted on August 24, 2020 by mondomolly

By the author of the multi-million copy bestseller Thin Thighs in 30 Days… It is my intention to return to our regularly scheduled programing (and on a regular schedule!) in the next few weeks, but I could not resist pulling … Continue reading →

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High Trail By Vivian Breck

Posted on February 10, 2018 by mondomolly

Her father lay helpless, his leg broken. No other campers for miles around. How would she get help in time? This is a reader-request from so long ago I can’t find who requested it or in what context, but I … Continue reading →

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Wrapping Up The Imaginary Summer Book Club: The Haunting Of Hill House By Shirley Jackson

Posted on November 7, 2017 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2017 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature.  This month, the September selection, Shirley Jackson’s  The Haunting of Hill House.) Well,  a week after Halloween we finally get to Shirley … Continue reading →

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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Haywire By Brooke Hayward

Posted on September 7, 2017 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2017 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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How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? By Barthe DeClements

Posted on August 5, 2017 by mondomolly

Will Elsie be able to accept her (beautiful!) new self? This is the first of two (sadly out-of-print) books following up on the life of Elsie Edwards from Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade, the school fatty with a horrifying mother … Continue reading →

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Hey, Dollface By Deborah Hautzig

Posted on January 29, 2016 by mondomolly

What if it was more than friendship? What if Chloe was feeling the same way? This book is typical of the “social issues” novels of the era: it doesn’t push the envelope as far as Norma Klein or Sandra Scoppettone’s … 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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Movie Madness and/or Mania: Hell’s Highway, The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Bret Wood, 2003)

Posted on July 17, 2015 by mondomolly

Bret Wood’s documentary on the gory Driver’s Ed movies that are fondly (or traumatically) remembered by Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers opens by acknowledging that a big part of the appeal is the urban legend factor: even students who never took … Continue reading →

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HELP! I’m A Prisoner In The Library! By Eth Clifford

Posted on March 12, 2015 by mondomolly

They didn’t mean to spend the night in the library! Sure, suuuuure you didn’t… The Plot: It’s hard to beat Eth Clifford’s (AKA Ethel Clifford Rosenberg) set-up for childhood wish fulfillment: tweenage Mary Rose and Jo-Beth Onetree are entrusted to the … Continue reading →

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