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Choose Your Own Adventure #42: The Mystery of Echo Lodge By Louise Munro Foley

Posted on March 6, 2024 by mondomolly

Be on the lookout! Echo Lodge is surrounded by danger. You may be attacked by a killer hawk, get trapped under a roaring avalanche, or save the day by solving the mystery!  I truly appreciate that readers indulged my flight … Continue reading →

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Robin Kane (#5) Mystery In The Clouds By Eileen Hill

Posted on October 22, 2023 by mondomolly

“Who’s going to shoot at a girl? Don’t be so scaredy. Come on!” Mindy sighed. “I might as well. If you get shot, I’ll just get shot, too.” Background: Usually, fall means a look at the “girls’ series” published by Whitman in … Continue reading →

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Mina By Marie Kiraly

Posted on October 31, 2021 by mondomolly

This could not be damnation. But if it was, the fire was far too sweet to resist… As usual October means I will be subjecting friends and family to a schedule of seasonally appropriate movies (I shall forever secretly remain … Continue reading →

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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night By Joanna Lee and T.S. Cook

Posted on May 18, 2021 by mondomolly

Rowena Harper is a rich, spoiled, and emotionally disturbed young mother who can’t cope with the problems of raising her child. That’s why…. I mentioned this title in passing in the review for Willo Davis Roberts’s Don’t Hurt Laurie, but … Continue reading →

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Robin Kane (#3): The Mystery Of Glengary Castle By Eileen Hill

Posted on October 11, 2020 by mondomolly

“Heavens, so many things to worry about. I don’t want to tell Mom and Dad any of it. They’ll tell me to go to the Police. We don’t want to to that. Not yet anyway…” Striving for some semblance of … Continue reading →

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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: My Face For The World To See By Liz Renay

Posted on September 8, 2020 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2020 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature.  This week, the July selection, My Face for the World to See By Liz Renay.)  When I announced this title, I … Continue reading →

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My So-Called Life: A Novel Based In The Award-Winning Television Series By Catherine Clark

Posted on November 17, 2019 by mondomolly

Less than perfect… I realize I am about to alienate myself from my entire generational cohort, but: I never cared for ABC’s acclaimed, award-winning, Claire Danes-and-Jared Leto-star-making, abruptly canceled, fondly remembered “My So-Called Life”. Aggressively marketed at the time as … Continue reading →

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Mother, Where Are You? (Donna Rockford #1) By Dorothy Woolfolk

Posted on April 28, 2019 by mondomolly

Who is Janet’s mother? And why would anyone want to kill them, just because they’re looking for her? I didn’t look up any info on author Dorothy Woolfolk until after I had finished this book and was kind of blown … Continue reading →

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My Name Is Davy I’m An Alcoholic By Anne Snyder

Posted on February 10, 2019 by mondomolly

Davy Kimble didn’t have a friend in the world- until he discovered booze and Maxi… Is it the late 1970s? Then it must be time for yet another social-problem novel about the dangers of (checks notes)… DRINKING! But first can … Continue reading →

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Mazes and Monsters By Rona Jaffe

Posted on August 12, 2018 by mondomolly

These players… could be anybody’s kids; bright young college students sent out to prepare for life, given the American Dream and rejecting it to live in a fantasy world on invented terrors. Background: Rona Jaffe is best known for her first … Continue reading →

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