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The Seduction and Romance of Faulty Memory, Part Two: Every time she turns around my mother is forgetting something
Every time she turns around my mother is forgetting something. She may pick up and look with pure delight at an inexpensive bauble then set it down. Five seconds later she’ll pick it…
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In Cold Blood and Rule Rules
Once in a while I go on a crime spree. I binge on true crime novels. The best of the best is In Cold Blood. It reads like a novel. In fact, when…
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Evelyn Sibley Lampman wrote kick-ass YA books in the 1960’s
notes: Long before there was dystopian YA this and that; long before YA tackled subjects like teen pregnancy, broken homes, drug abuse; way before all that there was Evelyn Sibley Lampman and she…
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What we are saying when we recommend a book
It’s more, isn’t it, than just: hey I liked this one a lot, take a gander. Yet again, it’s not much more than that. When we recommend a book we are pulling back…
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Janet & Janet Series and Tip and Mitten Series
the basics: Janet and Janet series Tip and Mitten series “Tip and Mitten” was part of the Reading for Meaning series. As the series progressed we were introduced to “Jack and Janet”.…
