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This Month’s Selection of the Great Lakes Center for Literocity Feminist Book Club

Posted on August 1, 2016 by ubu507
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Nancy Drew Tips:

Posted on June 26, 2016 by ubu507

How to protect your lamb from a wildcat from The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes 1964 It occurs to me this could also work as a cartoon with the wildcat labeled Trump and Nancy labeled the Scots…

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Since She Went Away, David Bell, New American Library, $16.99.

Posted on June 24, 2016 by ubu507

If you want a compelling reading experience, just pick up a David Bell book. Reading the first page can be like leaning over a suspense generating machine — the gears of the story will grab any loose time you have … Continue reading →

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“The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial” by Maggie Nelson, Graywolf, $16 and “Jane Doe January: My Twenty-Year Search For Truth and Justice” by Emily Winslow, Morrow, $29.99.

Posted on June 21, 2016 by ubu507

  I recently read two great true crime narratives, The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson and Jane Doe January: My Twenty Year Search For  Truth and Justice by Emily Winslow, that started me thinking about the … Continue reading →

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A Terrific book!

Posted on April 8, 2016 by ubu507
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Latest Selection of the Great Lakes Center for Literocity Feminist Book Club

Posted on March 28, 2016 by ubu507

Dear Publisher: We’ll read it if we damn well want to!

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More Bondage in Nancy Drew

Posted on March 17, 2016 by ubu507

The Bungalow Mystery by Carolyn Keene, 1960 edition. There is a fair amount of people getting restrained in ND, but that’s probably because there isn’t a lot of actual murder.

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Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand, Minotaur, $25.99.

Posted on February 29, 2016 by ubu507

A stolen passport will only get you so far. That memorable first sentence reintroduces us to one of my favorite protagonists, Elizabeth Hand’s Cass Neary. Hard Light, the third installment in the misadventures of our anti-heroine follows closely on the … Continue reading →

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from the Great Lakes Center for the Literary Arts Literocity Book Culture Club

Posted on February 26, 2016 by ubu507

Homer Pettingil was a decent little man – sober, industrious, a pillar of his community, until he… attended a convention, met up with a back-slapping buddy, drank enough daiquiris to douse his discretion, accepted the invitations of a shady lady … Continue reading →

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The Reader Wreathed with Flowers (Virgil’s Muse)

Posted on January 13, 2016 by ubu507

 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1845 Musée du Louvre, Paris

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