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Checking In With The Imaginary Summer Book Club: The Women’s Room By Marilyn French

Posted on July 31, 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 June Selection, Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room.)  I vowed to complete the “June” Imaginary Book Club title by … Continue reading →

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Wrapping Up The Imaginary Summer Book Club: Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? By Henry Farrell

Posted on November 24, 2019 by mondomolly

(Click here for information on the 2019 edition of Molly’s Imaginary Summer Book Club Featuring Classics of Women’s Literature.  For the titles that have filmed adaptations, we will also be looking at the movies as we go along. This week, … Continue reading →

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When The Phone Rang By Harry Mazer

Posted on January 20, 2019 by mondomolly

How can they survive as a family when there’s nothing left to keep them together? I see Scholastic’s Point imprint and immediately think “Thriller”, possibly with some supernatural content, but a quick click on that tags shows that it also … Continue reading →

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Dawn Of Love #2: Wild Prairie Sky By Cheri Michaels

Posted on April 15, 2018 by mondomolly

How could she fall in love… with a young man as wild as a mountain lion and as free as the prairie wind? I’m a big fan of Scholastic’s Sunfire series- in which orphaned teenage girls have to choose between … 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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A Wild Heart By Dale Carlson

Posted on March 26, 2016 by mondomolly

Jona was pure trouble… A Goodreads review tipped me off as to the reason for this book’s existence: as a “a high-interest, low-reading level title” it was presumably intended for remedial high school literacy programs. Which is why a far-fetched story … Continue reading →

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When The Bough Breaks By Lois Duncan

Posted on January 21, 2013 by mondomolly

Background: Lois Duncan is best known for her YA thrillers, which often involve a supernatural element, such as telepathy or psychic intuition, or witchcraft. However, her work from the late 1960s through the 70s also explicitly addresses how both the … Continue reading →

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Working At Love By Judy Baer

Posted on November 19, 2012 by mondomolly

If it were up to me, I’d be on my way to the beautician’s right this minute to copy the spikey, Billy Idol-inspired look of this week’s cover model onto my own head. Sadly, the amount of peroxide it would … Continue reading →

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Swept Away #2: Woodstock Magic By Eileen Goudge

Posted on September 11, 2012 by mondomolly

You know what I love? A YA romance series with a gimmick. You know what else I love? Terrible depictions of the 1960s: the 1999 NBC miniseries “The 60’s”, in which one family experiences every political and cultural event of … Continue reading →

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